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Nora Pritchard, 79
Nora Pritchard grew up in Cardiff with a younger brother and a mother who could turn a small kitchen into the busiest room in the street. She trained as a nurse, later choosing district nursing because she liked the variety of neighbourhood work.
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Nora Pritchard79 years · The Rowan RoomRowanbank House · Cardiff
- A life of their own
- District nurse · Cardiff, Wales
- Life here
- Nora is direct, affectionate without fuss and happy to disagree about music or the correct way to make toast.
- People in their life
- Her brother Huw lives in Newport and telephones on Sundays. Nora never married and has a close relationship with Huw’s daughter Carys.
- A little comfort
- jigsaws, Welsh coastal walks, choir music, crosswords
NoraRowanbank House · Cardiff, United Kingdom
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A noisy kitchen
Nora remembers Cardiff kitchens before she remembers classrooms. Her mother took in neighbours, parcels and opinions with equal enthusiasm, while her younger brother Huw built elaborate obstacles under the table. Nora learned to do homework amid conversation. She still finds complete silence faintly suspicious, although she makes an exception for a difficult crossword clue.
At school she enjoyed biology and disliked being told that sensible girls should avoid muddy games. Her interest in nursing began with practical curiosity rather than a childhood calling. She wanted useful work, other people around her and a life that would not be exactly the same every morning. The training gave her all three, sometimes before breakfast.
The squeaking bicycle
Nora’s first district round involved a bicycle with one squeaking brake and a bag that seemed to grow heavier during the day. She learned street names, which gates stuck and where to shelter when the rain became unreasonable. She also learned that a neat timetable could unravel before the second stop without anyone having done anything wrong.
She will not retell private details about the people she visited. What she remembers aloud are the everyday things: a proudly maintained front garden, a clock that chimed early and someone determined to offer tea when Nora was already late. The work taught her to notice a room before speaking. It also gave her a permanent suspicion of unreliable bicycle brakes.
The wrong rehearsal
A colleague persuaded Nora to join a community choir. On the first evening she entered through the wrong door and found herself at a meeting about a leaking roof. She stayed long enough to offer an opinion, then followed the sound of singing upstairs. For several weeks, the caretaker assumed she belonged to both groups.
Singing became a pleasure precisely because she did not have to be in charge. She could stand among other voices and concentrate on the next line. Her friend Mair sang beside her for years, sometimes beautifully and sometimes with great confidence in the wrong place. Nora valued both qualities, though the conductor was less generous about the second.
The journey postponed
Mair once suggested a rail holiday along the coast. Nora said the dates were awkward and promised they would arrange it later. Other plans intervened. By the time they seriously discussed it again, Mair had moved closer to family and travelling together was harder. Nora dislikes turning the story into a lesson, but she does remember the unused timetable.
They remained friends through letters and telephone calls. Nora eventually took a shorter coastal trip with Carys, who insisted on stopping for photographs every few minutes. It was a good holiday on its own terms, not a replacement. Nora keeps one picture of a windswept bench and wishes she had made more room for Mair’s original invitation.
The missing corner
Carys began visiting with jigsaws during school holidays. Nora sorted edges; Carys sorted anything she thought looked interesting. Their systems were incompatible but productive. On one memorable afternoon a corner piece disappeared, prompting a search beneath every chair. Carys had tucked it into a biscuit tin to keep it safe and then forgotten which tin she meant.
The completed puzzle showed a lighthouse under a huge blue sky. Nora had complained about every inch of that sky, but she refused to dismantle it for a week. She still prefers pictures with buildings, signs and objects she can name. A box advertising a peaceful seascape is, in her opinion, often concealing several hundred nearly identical pieces.
The room with the jigsaw
At Rowanbank House, Nora has arranged her room so visitors can reach the sofa without negotiating a forest of furniture. Huw helped hang a coastal photograph slightly too high, then defended the decision for an entire afternoon. Carys brings puzzles and news. Nora chooses the social activities she enjoys and feels no obligation to become enthusiastic about all of them.
There is usually music available, although she turns it down when someone comes in. She likes ordinary conversation: what people have been reading, whether the weather kept a promise, why toast burns at exactly the wrong moment. Her nursing career is part of her life story, not an invitation to diagnose visitors or turn every conversation into advice.
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