Woman’s Weekly UK – 06 August 2019

Where I

read mine

Goingbackin

time

Seeingtheoldpinkcoverof

youroriginal

Woman’sWeeklybroughtback

somany

memoriesof theSecondWorld

War. Iwasa

childlivinginJohannesburg

atthetime,but

myfatherwasintheRAF.My

parentswere

divorcedandwelivedwith

ourfather–we

hadalovelyladycalledMissEvans

looking

afterus.Mymostlasting memory

of this

time wasthemagazinesshe

received bypost

fromtheUK.One,ofcourse,

wasWoman’s

Weekly,with thatdistinctive

cover.Iwaited

everyweekfor thepostman

tocome,and

Miss Evansletmereadthe

nextinstalment.

WhenIretired,asaresultof

those days,

Itookupcreativewriting.I

nowbelongtoa

writinggroup calledTheWord

Birdsandwe

meet onceamonth.Sothank

youWWfor

whettingmy appetiteforshort

storiesand

bringingbackmemoriesofmy

childhood

by publishingyouroriginal

cover.

PatriciaMcLeod, Australia

4 womansweekly.com

LookwhatI made
Havingnevermadea toyof
anykind– andnewto the
worldof crafting– I sawyour
projectin the9 Aprilissue
andthoughtI’dgiveit a try.
Havingrecentlylostmy
houserabbit(Jack),aftereight
years,I wantedsomething
to sitonthesofathatdidn’t
demand endless green

snacks!I hadto substitute

someof thematerials,thetail

beinga keyringpom-pom.

I alsoaddeddetailto hisarms

andlegs,andoverallit took

melongerthana day,butI’m

pleasedwithmyfirsteffort,

andhopefullyit’llencourage

othernewbiesto havea go.

Sheena Murphy, Stafford

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