Although I am not a person who could be classed as a royalist I was sorry at the death of the Queen, she seemed a nice person who like many older people suffered a succession of setbacks and still smiled; at least on the outside.
I was particularly impressed that she continued working until the day she passed away. I had mentioned before that my mother was still working at the age of seventy-two.
Mom packed hairpins and grips; she counted them into groups of twenty-four took a square piece of paper then folded them into an elongated triangle shape and held them in place with a single hairpin finely she tied them into bundles of twenty-four and started the whole procedure again.
She was paid by the gross an amount that was so low that it wasn’t worth working for but when you have nothing then you accept what you are given.
I remember looking at her hands which had bumps all over them caused by arthritis and felt very bitter that she had done this for most of her life and for so little money.
Mom rarely complained about anything but just accepted life as it came and like the queen she had a nice smile.
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