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Foresight With Hindsight
and more Memoirs
ISBN 978-1-905599-60-8
Out August 2010
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... what happens in the music is that everyone is woken up by bombs and cannons and they run to the walls of the town and see enemy soldiers attacking them. So all the men hurry to put on battle clothes over their pyjamas and the ladies help them to pull on heavy army boots. Then the men run out and fight. They keep fighting until the ladies say, ‘Never mind. We’ll make you a nice pot of tea.’ When the ladies take the tea to the men and see the enemy throwing bombs at the walls they get very angry. They fetch everything they can and throw down chairs and books and chamber pots full of wee until in the end the enemy can’t stand it anymore and gallop away and everyone jumps up and down and says, ‘Hurrah! We’ve beaten you!’
And that is how Daddy plays the war on the piano.
Extract from winning entry ‘Piano Pieces’ by Diana Mitchener
Tarot cards and camping trips, ack-ack guns and a virtual romance, teenage runaways, crows in the toilet and a mortal fear of Tony Benn. Foresight with Hindsight and More Memoirs contains the winning entries from Leaf Books’ first Mini-Memoir Competition.Winner
‘Piano Pieces’ by Diana Mitchener
Runner-up
‘Foresight with Hindsight’ by Jane Common
Commended
‘Marmalade’ by Jo Austen
‘I Thought it was All Over’ by Trina Beckett‘Lost’ by Pascale Bientot
‘Going Downhill’ by P. de Burlet
‘Girl Friday’ by Tracy Burton
‘Precious Years with Mother’ by Dolly Carter
‘Why? Because’ by Wendy Craig
‘Things Fall Apart’ by Jane Croft
‘Long Ago or Far Away’ by Ian Cundell
‘Camping in France/En Famille’ by Sylvia Sanderson
‘Euthanasia for Tortoises’ by Frank Ferrie
‘Threads’ by Lesley Fuller
‘Coat’ by Sue Gill
‘Front Room in the 50s’ by Margaret Greenwood
‘The Silence of the Children’ by David Grubb
‘Prospectors’ by Tamara Guhrs
‘Belong’ by Ursula Hurley
‘Stickers’ by Paul Jenkins
‘Jon Paul’ by Freda Love Smith
‘The Cigarette Girl’ by Liz Martinez
‘The Point of a Pendulum’ by Liz Martinez
‘Crows in the Toilet’ by Alison McNaught
‘Winning’ by Moira McPartlin
‘If I could only’ by Suzanne Bellenger
‘Legs Eleven, Go to Heaven’ by Eithne Nightingale
‘Dad Looking Sideways’ by Amy O’Neil
‘My Dad’ by Clarissa Pattern
‘The Edge of El Dorado’ by Karen Phillips
‘Sometimes it’s the Sound of the Telling’ by Clare Potter
‘Marianne, Me and the Giant Crustacean’ by Brenda Ray
‘A Bomb in the Airing Cupboard’ by Joyce Reed
‘The Journey Home’ by Claire Riviere
‘Reds Under the Bed’ by Nick Robinson
‘Strange Fruits’ by David Craig Smith
‘A Bright Enough Lad’ by Meic Stephens
‘Frozen in Time’ by Christine Tennent
‘The Time Traveller’s Disappointment’ by Jennie Tripp
‘The Red Velvet Jacket’ by Jayne Walter
‘Do-Re-Mi-Oh-No’ by Lauren Williamson
‘Wednesday’s Child’ by Georgina Wilson