Hi Dottie, My mother will have lived in her council house for sixty years in May. Having been widowed in her very early thirties and with five children to support she never had the chance to purchase her own home. Having said that she would not move even if she could, having buried her husband and her son from the house it holds her dearest memories.
I had to smile at your "sex in schools" observations and I too feel that they are taught too much at too early an age these days. However, many parents duck out of their obligations when it comes to sex, especially in older generations. It would shock most people nowdays to hear that when I was forteen years old a friend shockingly told me the tale that she had been out walking with her parents when they had seen "one of those things that men use". For a few months I thought that men must have periods too until I plucked up courage to ask my grandma who put me straight on a few things. My mother was quite unapproachable on such matters!
