Category: Syb’s Stories

  • The Look: Moustaches

    Your Dad … had a “Ronald Colman” moustache.  He was a good-looking man your dad.  All the ladies were after him. I had to give one or two a piece of my mind.

  • The Look: Hats

    We used to make our own hats … your Aunty and I … back in the 1920s when we were young. You bought your own felt shape, steamed it to fit, put on the trim and … Voilà! People used to say I looked like Gloria Swanson … which I did, if I do say so myself.

  • Syb’s Ghost Story

    I was going to bed on the first night in the new house. Of course I was on my own because your father had died a long time before that. All of a sudden, I sensed a presence near my bed. Cold, just cold … and I knew it was a ghost.   “What did you…

  • Talking Points: Hair

    I’m sure that there are plenty of things that Syb and I will be talking about. My hair, for one thing. How lucky I am to have my father’s hair, so thick and curly. But perhaps I should get it cut properly. And use my father’s favourite hair product – Vaseline.