My Autobiography: Including Life Skills

By Jean Lancaster

I am so grateful to share my biography, plus give suggestions for life skills.
I have had many wonderful experiences, and I’ve seen many changes.
We can accomplish anything in life, and find joy in the things that we do.
Caring about others has been a big part of my life, and has given me great fulfillment.
Enjoy life, and be GRATEFUL.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 13, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665525176

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Published by AuthorHouse  09/10/2021

ISBN: 978-1-6655-2518-3 (sc)

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

I

dedicate this book to my ancestors and my children. My ancestors had very little in life but survived happily with what they had. My sons and daughters have better lives but should always remember their ancestors.

We were given lives to enjoy, and we are all able to adjust and make changes!

CHAPTER 1

I WAS THE SECOND OF SEVEN children, six girls and one boy. When I was born, my father was in the navy in England, and my mother couldn’t cope with two small children, so my grandparents took my older sister to live with them.

Eventually, my mother gave birth to six girls one every eighteen months. Women in those days had lots of children and thus not much time for themselves.

My father retired from the navy and started working in the coal mines. He was a hard-working man and made sure he provided for his family.

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In the early 1950s in England, people had to walk everywhere—to their jobs, school, and to shop. Few had cars, so they would rely on buses to get them to their destinations if they didn’t walk there.

It was very cold and damp in the winter in England, and even though we had fireplaces in every room of our house, we couldn’t afford coal to heat all the rooms, so we heated just the living room. The houses were not insulated well, and we had to tolerate a lot of cold. We would put extra blankets on our beds and sleep with hot water bottles. In the morning, we would wake up to cold noses and frost on the windows.

We handled our laundry by heating a gas water heater in the bathroom. Then we washed the clothes in the bathtub. It was a big job to wash all the clothes and rinse them in cold water. Then we had to hang all the laundry on clothes lines outside or inside on a clothes horse—a wooden frame—around the fireplace in the living room. That of course was when we had extra coal for the fireplace.

We had meters for the gas and electricity. Occasionally, we would run out of money and have to wait until