"Harry and I had a slight difference of opinion (that must surely be the understatement of the year)."

Mum's diary from October 1962 in which my (future) parents have row, my mum stays in and then gives in.

After my dad died in 2010, my sister was clearing out his house – the house we grew up in – and found a small suitcase in the loft.

The case was full of stuff that Mum, who died in 1999, had saved, but had never mentioned. Letters, cards, postcards, photos, programmes from shows, even things like dry cleaning receipts from when she lived in America in t…