For the months following our first meeting on board HMS SIRIUS, Peter was a regular visitor – either to the flat I shared in Westbourne with two other colleagues from Poole hospital, or at my parents’ home on the north side of Bournemouth. I became very familiar with the train journey between Poole and Weymouth.…
The 31st October 1970 dawned cold and wet. The weather during the previous week had been like an Indian summer – but my wedding day was not. Having spent the night at my parents’ home, I washed my hair and lay luxuriating in the bath. The bathroom was at the front of the bungalow in…
That first week of marriage was hard. I missed the busy working life in the hospital, with plenty of people around me – both staff and patients. I missed the adrenalin rush and excitement of preparing for the wedding. Now, suddenly, my life had screamed to a halt. What was I going to do with…
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Dilapidated though it was, the car brought us freedom. Not only could we venture into Singapore city without being dependant on buses and taxis, but we could go much further and across the Causeway which linked Singapore to the Malaysian mainland. Singapore Island was a malaria-free zone because the authorities sprayed the monsoon drains and…
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