Margaret records the family accounts of her birth at St Mary’s Hospital and the different details each relative remembered.

A family story about three-year-old Peter asking whether his new baby sister would be staying.

Margaret recalls the rented Copnor house, sharing a bedroom with Peter and the routines of early family life.

Margaret remembers moving from Copnor to a three-bedroom council house in Portchester before starting junior school.

Sunday visits to Nan Wells reveal the family’s fixed routines and George’s quieter relationship with his mother.

Margaret remembers Gran Collins teaching her the exact value of money before decimalisation.

A childhood caravan holiday at Hayling Island, remembered through packing, beach routines and four people sharing a confined space.

Margaret recalls a damp family week in Weymouth, with boarding-house routines, wet shoes and competing versions of the weather.

Margaret and Alan marry at Fareham Register Office and begin married life in a flat still filled with boxes.

Claire is born in Portsmouth, and Margaret and Alan begin adjusting their Fareham flat and daily routines around their first child.

Michael is born in Portsmouth, and Margaret adjusts to caring for a second child alongside three-year-old Claire.

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’s recurring pain is diagnosed as gallstones, leading to surgery and an unwanted demonstration that home and work can continue without her.

Margaret returns to Weymouth with Alan, Claire and Michael and tries unsuccessfully to identify the boarding house from her childhood holiday.

Margaret records the final week of her father’s life after a severe stroke and the practical decisions that followed his death.

Claire marries Simon after organising the day with the same attention she gives to most family arrangements.

Margaret meets her first grandchild and discovers that Claire has her own clear instructions for handling a newborn.

Joan continues using buses on her own terms while Margaret notices the practical adjustments her mother refuses to call help.