Tales of Jill

Our house was like a hospital ward with every maternal istrument that could possibly be stored.. I had set my heart on a home birth delivery, but things don’t always go as straightforward as can be!! I started labour pains when we were watching ‘Coronation street’ on the box television, and when I look back on it all now, having a baby at home was a stupid decision.. haha but I thought I would be just like my Mum, coz I was birthed in her bedroom when I came out of her tum.. Well my anxious midwife was with me all the way and she was very good I have to say.. though this was a first for her and I, we chatted through the early stages and time passed by..now through the middle of the night I sensed that Mary Watson was a little uptight.. but I wasn’t worried coz I had done this once before so we settled down for the night and locked my door..what could possibly go wrong I told myself as I studied the numerous instruments on the sterilsed shelf.. all night long my labour pains got stronger and I apprehensively wondered if it would take much longer.. now I was in the very last stages almost pushing when my midwife rang a Doctor and he landed in our room rushing..at this point the agonising pain was intense, waxing and waning from bad to immense.. they needed to burst the water bag but they didn’t have a hook and this baby was coming out by hook or by crook...
So I got rushed away with the blues and twos amidst my disappointed, worrisome, woos.. but as soon as they lay me on that temporary bed a little hook did the trick and it was emergency red.. coz out she popped like a cork from a bottle, as fast as the speed of light in full throttle..
On Thursday October 4th at 2.02 p.m. Laura Tait shot into this universe without any aid from a Doctor or a Nurse..

We were only in for a few hours amidst my teddybears and pretty flowers.. I stared at her little round face full of innocence and finesse grace.. I had seen this tiny pout before as the afternoon sun shone amidst the floor..Laura weighed slightly heavier than her sister had but she was alive and kicking well I was so glad.. Daddy was there the entire time on each and every ward clock chime.. Eeh I can see her today still snuggled up from the Autumn chill.. well needless to say after Jenni’s milk intolerance I breast fed Laura with a determined dominance..so all of a sudden we were a family of four with two littleuns whom we would cherish and adore.. I soon realised Laura was an easy child coz she prefered to take things in her stride and not run wild.. she followed her sister everywhere on and off her Grandma’s chair.. having two of the same sex was as easy as pie with nothing complex.. After I dropped Jenni off at school I would meet up with Sharon and that was cool.. Sharon also had two little girls and Danielle was ten months younger than Laura with a head full of curls..Danielle and Laura would just lie on my mat, both were very contented and that was that !! As soon as Laura started junior school the head teacher, Mr Ayres said she is no fool.. “All of your girls are very bright but Laura is something special” he used to say over and over again..he put her on a pedestal with a master’s brain.. mind you from the day Laura could walk and talk she always said she wanted to work with money.. of course I laughed thinking your’e very funny.. 

Laura was a very placid lovely girl and never in a hurry or her mind in a whirl.. Jenni and Laura played just great inside our garden gate.. We bought them a mahoosive trampolene and that housed them and all their friends and they could all be seen..Laura and Danielle went to the same night classes after school coz anything Jenni and Victoria did well they thought they were cool.. Jenni and Laura both played the flute and when Laura dropped a hired one from the school that cost alot of loot.. but we ended up buying our very own and that meant we didn’t need to take one out on loan.. Laura also had piano lessons and passed up to grade five so we bought a secondhand one, it’s still stuck in our spare bedroom, man alive..In her teens Laura was akways pumping up the tunes in her room and we were often telling her to turn down the boom..the Fugees and Lauryn Hill could be heard over and over again, she would holler these at the top of her lungs what a pain.. teehee but our Laura loved her R & B and everyone was well aware of that.. Oh mercy me..so betwixt her playing on the play station and she was a whiz with the controls, Laura almost got square eyes on her consoles ..on a Thursday straight from school well that was Brownie club so Laura and her friend Phillipa would take turn about to go to each other’s house for their grub.. we had our regular everyday routine all the little things that entertained a teen.. Laura came along to my Linedancing classes and stood near the back row with some other younger lasses .. infact she was absolutely amazing with her moves as she pirouetted and monterey turned in her line with the grooves..so we were always very busy and Laura would always come along coz her music was her life and she loved a good song.. Haha “Laura, Laura the pond explorer” as a man on our park used to shout and I never found out what that lot was all about” We added an extension on the end of our house, so there was a new bedroom for Laura and an onsuite for me and my spouse.. Laura absolutely adored her own space and she had her privacy with all her special things in this place.. I can well recall Laura as excited as can be waiting on her carpet to be fitted overjoyed, happily

Now at about fifteen years old Linedancing got the old ‘heave ho’ coz Laura started going out with her friends you know.. I never said a word but I missed her on the floor, novices would follow her feet galore..goodness knows where she went til’ very late and her sister and her man would scour the town in a state.. whenever we asked her where she had been, she would say Oh there was a party, the devilish smarty..but I trusted her coz she was just growing up and I knew it would be alcohol she would be supping and not tea in a cup.. well her and I went away overnight on the train she had to go to look at some university’s and pick where she would be stayin’ Manchester Metropolitan was the best, this one was definately better than the rest.. and instead of starting straight away Laura chose to have a gap year, tho she was going to Tennerife with her friend and I did fear.. but she went and was there for quite a while, I would talk to her on our landline and her voice made me smile.. I wanted her home for Christmas so late in November we boarded an aeroplane I will always remember.. coz our house got trashed by some scum and they pinched things that were stashed and that made us so glum.. but our Laura was home with us once more safe and sound inside our own front door.. now the very day she left our yard with her cases in the car, A lad landed in his works van and he waved her off from afar.. so this same lad waited for her to return.. they were destined to be together as we would all soon learn.. Ricky Brown gave up his drilling employment and he spent the three years in digs with Laura where they found enjoyment.. even to this very day they meet up with those very good mates and they reminisce about their youth when they got in some states..

Laura completed her degree where she ended up with a first, she gave it her all and was not universed.. the pair of them would come home every now and again, I went to stay with them but the long journey was a pain..then when they came home with her qualifications she was offered employment at a brilliant location.. Laura worked at that firm for a number of years then she moved ship to another one with excellent peers..She is a Chartered Accountant still today, her childhood dreams about her working with money was not that far away..Laura fell in the family way so Maisie Sienna is my third Granddaughter not too far away.. a couple of years passed us by then the two of them got married, Oh me oh my..they have a nice property just up in the town and we go to their house and they all come down...