Margaret returns to paid employment as a part-time clerical assistant at Eastbrook Junior School.
Life entries from the 1990s
Entries from the 1990s
Margaret learns the difference between official school procedures and the working knowledge Pauline has built over seven years.
A low-cost family camping holiday in the New Forest begins with a borrowed frame tent and competing ideas about how to put it up.
The family takes its first overseas holiday, flying from Gatwick to Majorca for a week in a modest apartment.
A visit to see a litter of kittens ends with the family bringing home a tabby named Mabel.
Margaret becomes Eastbrook’s school secretary and takes responsibility for the records, money and correspondence that keep the office running.
Margaret’s recurring pain is diagnosed as gallstones, leading to surgery and an unwanted demonstration that home and work can continue without her.
The family’s first home computer takes over one end of the dining room and creates new uses, instructions and arguments about whose turn it is.
Margaret returns to Weymouth with Alan, Claire and Michael and tries unsuccessfully to identify the boarding house from her childhood holiday.