My Autobiography
aka Sunday in Memory Lane
Some subscribers have messaged me asking what happened to my series, usually published every Sunday morning under the title SUNDAY IN MEMORY LANE.
I decided that it was as complete as I wanted it to be for the present. The most recent decade, covering my life since I retired, is tremendously busy and complex. Most of it has been conducted online and comprises thousands of articles written about anti-establishment activism. I may decide to write that decade up at a later date.
Unfortunately, due to being cancelled from Facebook, Twitter and Discord I no longer have access to everything I wrote, interviews I gave, photos that were taken and so on.
You know the score. If you are challenging the status quo they obliterate you from the internet and they have certainly done that to me.
Meanwhile, if you missed any episodes of my autobiography I have listed the links here:
Episode I - https://francesleader.substack.com/p/frances-leader-is-my-birth-name
Episode 2 - https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane
Episode 3 - https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-3
Episode 4 - https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-4
Episode 5 - https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-5
Episode 6 - https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-6
Episode 7 - https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-7
Episode 8 - https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-8
Episode 9 - https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-9
Episode 10 - https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-10
Episode 11 - https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-11
Episode 12 - https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-12
Episode 14: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-14
Episode 15: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-15
Episode 16: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-16
Episode 17: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-17
Episode 18: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-18
Episode 19: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-19
Episode 20: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-20
Episode 21: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-21
Episode 22: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-22
Episode 23: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-23
Episode 24: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-24
Episode 25: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-25
Episode 26: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-26
Episode 27: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-27
Episode 28: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-28
Episode 29: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-29
Episode 30: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-30
Episode 31: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-31
Episode 32: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-32
Episode 33: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-33
Episode 34: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-34
Episode 35: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-35
Episode 36: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-36
Episode 37: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-37
Episode 38: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-38
Episode 39: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-39
Episode 40: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-40
Episode 41: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/sunday-in-memory-lane-episode-41
AFTER THOUGHTS
THE BEATLES MAGIC MYSTERY TOUR BUS
Between 1965 and 1969 I lived in a public house in Harold Wood, near Romford in Essex. The pub faced the local train station and I frequently bunked the trains up the track to London and down the track to Clacton on Sea where my family had holiday homes.
NO MORE NARRATIVES PLEASE!
I seldom write personal opinion pieces without references to research but here goes.
WE WILL ALL MEET AGAIN
A disgruntled member of my family, who was cross that I arrived late at my grandmother’s funeral, chided me heavily. She believed that I had caused her mother’s death by visiting her unexpectedly the day before she died. Apparently the excitement and effort to get to the front door and open it for me was the last straw after a series of strokes.
DIVORCE
I had to divorce my husband in 1982. It was horrible. I had left the family home with our son, two cats and a car full of potted plants, towing a trailer loaded with the rest of our effects on the 4th of July 1981. I had headed south from Aberdeenshire until I hit the south east coast where I had spent most of my happier days.
Sunday in Memory Lane Extras
I was studying Chinese philosophy for a long time before I began to tackle Traditional Chinese Medicine. It started so long ago that I struggle to remember what triggered my interest in all things Chinese in the first place. My grandmother had a small collection of Chinese porcelain which was on a high cabinet I could not reach when I was a tot but I oft…
THE STORY OF TRUE JUSTICE
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I will begin. In this life I have learned that enemies suffer their greatest defeat when we succeed.
THE MAKING OF A GREENHAM COMMON WAR ACTIVIST
I was 3 years old when I climbed over our back wall and down into the deepest bomb crater in Islington, London. It was filthy but full of 'treasure' that I scrabbled through to build a ramshackle haven for my dollies to sit in and have a fantasy tea party.
I CANNOT FILL HER SHOES
I had a very close friendship with the headmistress of my school by the time I became Head Girl in the Upper Sixth Form (I don't know what that year is called nowadays, but it was the final year of A level General Certificate of Education in 1969). Ever since I had run away from home at thirteen years of age, I had been helped by Miss Bubbers in a very o…
THE JOCKS - MY LIFELONG FRIENDS
When I was a very young adult I used to refer to my best friends/male mates as Neanderthals because they were a bunch of Glaswegian street teenagers gone AWOL to find their fortunes in the soft balmy climes of the English south. They were rough, tough and football crazy. There was one thing that they loved more than anything. They loved to fight. They so…
I have written about the most recent decade (2013-2023) here:
TO SAVE OUR IMMORTAL SOUL
Hermes asked if all men did not have Minds, and the Great Dragon replied: “I will not permit the evil senses to control the bodies of those who love me, nor will I allow evil emotions and evil thoughts to enter them. I become as a porter or doorkeeper, and shut out evil, protecting the wise from their own lower nature. But to the wicked, the envious and …
STAND ALONE
I was thirteen years old when Terry, my boyfriend of five years, died very suddenly. He had been waiting for me with his friends at our usual rendezvous, a small park close to our homes. That park was a pretty neglected place. It was a square of grass with a few battered swings, a creaking old roundabout and a peeling, rusty climbing frame set into a co…
BEING A FRIEND
The longevity and strength of friendships (or the lack of them) is nothing new to us human beings. We are pack animals at root, after all. My Dad, a child of 1930s London, warned me that I may have been a popular party animal in my 20s, but as time passed I would be lucky to count true friends on the fingers of one hand.
I LOVE HELL'S ANGELS
Woven throughout my life are motorbikes and the people who love them. It all started when I was a baby and my earliest memories included sitting in my pram in the front garden of our London home, getting very excited because I could hear the roar of a big black Norton motorbike. The sound told me that my Dad was on his way home from work. I would jiggle …
FROM JESUS TO LAO TZU
When I was a child I would visit a church on the corner of my street every day to talk to the man who held the light. He was so kind looking and I was only 4 years old when I first saw him. I had no idea what a church was and less idea of who this man was,
DAN
James Bernard Shepard wrote the following comment on Episode 3 of my Autobiography as follows: Sep 14, 2022 Maybe I'm misunderstanding but I read that the entrance and exit to your building was automatically alarmed and that you had not nor had anyone switched off that alarm even for a moment and yet this strangely garbed man came and went without the ala…
ONWARDS!
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PROFIT JUNKIES tells the story of my brother, Roy and how he estranged the whole family because he had a dirty secret that he never wanted his newly acquired elite friends to hear.
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/profit-junkies
TRYING TO HEAL - OVERVIEW tells the story of my battle with illness which began in 2013.
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/trying-to-heal-overview
I am listening to Andrew Tate chatting with Tucker Carlson - I have never paid him much attention until now and am pleasantly surprised to say I like what he is saying (for the most part, at least).
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1678873144201818115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1678873144201818115%7Ctwgr%5Eb7e4578917f27b6d9982341af1f3b6d4f33b4e30%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Femsnews.wordpress.com%2F