Episode Five: Auchengate

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Episode Five: Auchengate

Lindsay and her daughters make a difficult visit to the sawmill. In the letters, Tom replies to Helen.

Lindsay Johnstone

Dec 10, 2023

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Auchengate, 1963. L-R Tom’s father, Alexander Mair; stepmother, Mary, Helen’s sister, Annie, her husband, Bill, Helen and MaryEllen

In this episode:

17th January, 1946.

Tom’s reply to Helen’s first letter crosses in the post with the conflicted one she sent him the day before. He asks her to do him a favour by visiting Auchengate before she travels east to meet him.

19th December, 2019.

Lindsay is back in the therapy room with news of a recent trip to Auchengate with her daughters and describes what this visit provoked in her that almost got in the way of noticing a deterioration in her mother’s condition.

Missed episode four? Catch up here:

A return to the therapy room

Lindsay Johnstone

December 3, 2023

12th December, 2019 It’s week four of the ‘assessment phase’ and Lindsay is back in the therapy room. This week, she talks for the first time about her girls. Her experience of motherhood. Meanwhile, in the letters, it’s mid-January 1946 and Helen is conflicted over what she must do to secure her future with Tom. There’s more on life at Lochgreen, and thi…

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Held in Mind: a Memoir

Lindsay Johnstone

November 26, 2023

Episode Four: Episode 3: The First of the Letters WW2 may have officially been declared over months previously, but in early 1946 many were still awaiting their demob. My grandfather, Tom, was no exception. A sailor in the Merchant Navy, he was stationed at Granton north of Edinburgh on Scotland’s east coast. The sawmill, Auchengate, that his family owned…

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What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone – Audio and Video including every episode of Held in Mind: A Memoir

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