A 70-Year Journey Through Passports
We all have our own journeys. We navigate the world through our unique lens of experiences.
My father navigated his by being a traveler. The best times of his life were when he was on a flight to a city
I.R.A. Activity in London – THE HARROD’S BOMBING
It was unfortunate that the day our son Robert went to Harrods to buy a Christmas present for his father, the IRA should choose the same day to try and blow up Harrods. Robert had bought the gift and left
To be a butterfly
It is a sunny October afternoon in Cambourne and I am looking through the window at my garden where a model of a large light blue butterfly is attached to the garage wall facing me, and where in the summer,
In Search of Spirituality
In October 1976 I and my ex-wife Chrissy went out to India to live the spiritual life. We had gone there two years previously “to find our Guru” as was the case with quite a few westerners at that time. … Read the rest
Evacuation from Ferozepur
It was August 1965. My family lived in the army cantonment of Ferozepur, Punjab, in northern India. I was 10 years old when the war between India and Pakistan began. The 2nd Mountain Brigade based in Ferozepur was deployed
Wartime Summer
The farmer peered out of his kitchen window at the hanging heads of corn, ripe and ready for the swift guillotine of the binder. He was waiting for the army lorry to deliver four German prisoners-of-war from the nearby camp
The Gold Watch
The Gold Watch
It was fortunate that Lilly was in the kitchen when the bomb went off. All the bay windows at the front of the three storey Victorian house imploded resulting in airborne razor like shards of glass.
There … Read the rest
The Bourn Connection
During World War Two I served in the WAAFs from 1942 to 1946 as a motor transport driver. After demob and enjoying a variety of jobs for a couple of years, I migrated to Australia in 1958 as a Ten… Read the rest
Babcia
We as a family of four have been living in Adelaide for the last six months where we relocated from Cambourne in Cambridge. It had been our home for the past 10 years. We are Polish, born in the Silesia … Read the rest