Luke's Notes
Luke's Notes
Luke Martell
This is a personal blog and I post on social and green alternatives, education, books, stories of university life since 1990, politics, music, family, and other themes.
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The fifth post on My 100 Top Tracks I listen to jazz more than any genre. Probably more than 60/70% of my listening is jazz. This isn't reflected in my top 100 tracks which are as much a timeline to my life as anything, and rock and pop...
The fourth post on My 100 Top Tracks. Midnight Train to Georgia was an early release on the Buddah label after Gladys Knight switched to them from Motown. It's an obvious song of hers to choose but I love it. Another train song. A guy...
Separately from her notebook containing 'Ina's Story' about her childhood, including one part on Newburgh where she spent her summer holidays as a child, my mum wrote, much later I think, about Newburgh again, specifically 37 High...
Continued from Part 8 In this final part 9 Ina talks about the golden moments and kindness she experienced in the summer holidays she spent in Newburgh in Fife with Auntie Edie and Uncle George in the many years her parents were abroad....
Continued from Part 7 In this part Ina goes on to talk about books and music. As to the place of books in my life - how they became so important to me I don't know. They were not readily accessible - there was a small library in which...
Continued from Part 6 In this part Ina goes on to talk about politics and social issues. But politics were never mentioned really. In the VIth form in General Studies we discussed current affairs as we were told about them from time to...
Continued from Part 5. In this part Ina discusses the role of religion in her childhood. Religion was the thing. We had prayers every evening. When I was proficient enough I played the piano for the hymn we would sing. I also took week...
Continued from Post 4 After discussing her family in the last part Ina goes back to talking about Swansea and boarding school. We did our share of the domestic work. There was a duty roster. There was 'carry-in'. This was waiting on the...
Continued from Part 3 on Swansea and Boarding school. Ina digresses from her account of school in Swansea to talk more about her family, before going back to Swansea in the next part. Really I only met my sister [LM, Beth] after meals...
Continued from Part 2 Going to Britain. Ina goes on to talk about her life at boarding school in Swansea after her parents had left her and Beth there and gone back to Peru with Agnes and Ruth. Because Beth was a year older she had a...
Continued from Part 1 Peru. This part covers Ina's arrival in Britain, from Peru, in 1945 Going home To get back to Britain we had to make our way to Buenos Aires. This must have taken several months. We went on a boat across Lake...
This is an introduction and contents to the story of my mum's childhood as told by her. This introduction is by me. A few months ago I was rummaging around in a cupboard in my parents' house. I was looking for photo albums I could get...
See Introduction and Contents. This first part of 'Ina's Story: as I remember it' covers my mum's first years in Peru from 1938 when she was born there to 1945 when she came to Britain. I was born in Huancayo on December 1st 1938. My...
The third post on My Top 100 Tracks. When I recently told my partner this was one of my top 100 favourite tracks of all time and played it to her she laughed. I think it was a bit unexpected to her that I would like a song like this. She...
Watching your team score a winning goal in the last minute of a match is great. But try leaving Facebook, Instagram, X, WhatsApp, and Amazon all in one day. That's what I did recently. That feels really good. Actually, I became inactive...