Philip thought of Italy, and the whole situation was saved. Even I hadn’t realised how deeply I’d been seduced by that one sentence from my choice of senior Cambridge literature in 1969, E.M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread. At seventeen, the line struck me immediately for the sole reason it had my name in …
In the mid-seventies, I watched the BBC’s ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris in dialogue with John Lennon in Manhattan and it felt like John was talking to me directly when he teased, ‘Hello England, keep your chin up. We’ll meet again’. Above all, I loved his style, cheeky genius and his total ease with confessions like ‘I’ve …
To my family and most of my clan, Malaya’s rubber wealth brought mainly prosperity, with some pain. It wasn’t so across the plantation industry, as I grew up witnessing. “There is no sin beyond the equator. Caoutchouc was first called Indian rubber because it came from the Indies, and the earliest European use of it …
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No one has pinned me down to routines and responsibilities as George had – and I did so with utmost love from the time I picked him up as a two-week-old. And his unconditional love, loyalty, and guardianship of me had nothing to do with the Fat Boy air bed, Jack Wolfskin blue mattress with …
