HALF AN ORANGE WITH WILLIE
HALF AN ORANGE WITH WILLIE These are the memoirs of our grandmother Joan Ferris Jones (née Farmer), made at the request of my father Anthony. The original document is typewritten (granny was a school secretary and we had a huge old typewriter) and dated August 1989, when she was in her eighties. I have not corrected her terminology (sometimes delightfully of her time and very "granny"), and occasional typos. Joan and her mother Helen (Nellie) lived with us, and some of these memories seem to be hers. When we were little, Joan was known as "other granny" to differentiate her from my mother's mother, London granny, and Nellie was "old granny". 1. In the beginning The first thing I remember is being taken into the cellar to be put into my pram. I was a little afraid of the dark steps and always surprised when the garden door opened and the daylight came in. The house was built on a steep slope so the cellar opened into the garden - really mor...