Marjorie Jones nee Brennen was born in Batley Yorkshire in 1932 so is a Yorkshire lass by birth. However she thinks of herself as part Geordie because, from the age of five, she lived in the little village of Annitsford in Northumberland.

At the age of sixteen she came to Harrogate to work and during the next twenty-five years she was married, became a Rochford, had three children, all girls, and was widowed.

Her two sisters moved to Harrogate during this time. One lives in Starbeck, but the youngest went to North Carolina in 1963, married an American and had three children.

In 1982 Marje married her second husband Ray, became a Jones, and inherited four stepdaughters.

Ray and Marje had both lost their partners through cancer, so at the beginning of 1990, when Marje was told she had cancer, they were determined it wasn't going to beat them.
After a year of tender loving care by Ray, Harrogate General and Cookridge Hospital Leeds, Marje is now fully recovered.

Her mother was another success story. She survived a cancer operation in 1980, and lived to celebrate her 88th birthday in June 1995.

While recuperating, Marje wrote this book of poems about real people and everyday experiences, some are serious, some are humorous, but all are about life in general. Her book has raised money for the hospitals where she had her treatment.

Later she wrote "Free as a Bird " because that's how she felt when she was told no more check ups were needed. Both books have been recorded on audio tape and are read by the Author.

A donation from the sale of this book is to be given to the two hospitals named above and also to the Harrogate and District Children's Group of the British Diabetic Association to help them in the wonderful work they do.
Thank you all for the T.L.C.