Elizabeth wanted to see the world and emigrated to New Zealand in 1952. She had a happy life there working in offices and running a shop with her husband and looking after children in a children’s home. Homesick for the snow, she returned to England in 2004 and settled in Thetford. Starting out I started […]
Overseas
An eclectic working life. Engineering and electronic systems. (2016)
The formative years I left grammar school in 1959 with one A Level pass, not a very good one. I then went to the local civic college to try and improve on matters and singularly failed so in 1960 I was left looking for a job and I ended up working in a machine shop […]
Assumptions
Why they never get it One of the things I’ve decided over decades is that nobody ever really understands someone else’s position. I think of this whenever anyone (sometimes including me) comments adversely on someone else’s job: like teachers (which I was for most of my life). Of course they get all these long holidays, […]
How and why I became a Rubber Planter
Gordonstoun, a good preparation In Malaya during the Emergency How rubber was produced The social life of planters ….. now read on
The Agricultural Missionary
Now what I’ve got to say really is all based on the fact that in retrospect I believe that God has been in control of my life; He has been leading and guiding by His Holy Spirit, thus I take no credit for what has been accomplished. I was born in Hendon in 1930, the […]
Times Gone By
A croupier's tale
Training with the Co-op
The first two points I’d like to make are: I’m now in my 70s and also despite living in Norwich area and enjoying it, I’m still very much a Suffolk man. I left school at 16, and just before then I filled in the application forms to join a particular branch of the Royal Navy. […]