A family keepsake
160 stories from Rhona and Jim Burslem, written by them between 2024 and 2026. A place for their grandchildren to wander, theme by theme, memory by memory.
Themes
First memories, names, where it all started.
Parents, siblings, grandparents, the people they grew up with.
Classrooms, teachers, first friendships.
Coming of age, first jobs, leaving home.
How Mum and Dad found each other.
Becoming parents, lessons in raising kids.
The jobs that shaped their working lives.
The houses, neighborhoods, and places they called home.
Big trips, small detours, and the road in between.
Recipes, meals, holidays, the rituals of family life.
The world events they lived through.
Music, books, sport, and the small pleasures of life.
What they have come to believe and pass on.