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.

Margaret meets Denise, the confident girl from two doors down who becomes her first friend in Portchester.

Margaret and Alan settle into their first married home, a compact Fareham flat with second-hand furniture and a coin-operated laundry.

Margaret and Alan leave the Fareham flat for a three-bedroom house in Havant, taking on a mortgage and room to expand.

A visit to see a litter of kittens ends with the family bringing home a tabby named Mabel.

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 and Alan move from their Havant house to a smaller bungalow in Emsworth as their children become more independent.

Margaret records the practical first weeks after Alan’s death without repeating the private details of his final morning.

Margaret records her present routine in Emsworth, including family visits, gardening, local history and continued work on the Life Archive.