So! We’ve finished with school and covered my starting at university, with my inadequate science background safely behind me. Middlesex Hospital Medical School—an ambition achieved! As they say, ‘Be careful what you wish for!’ However, I enjoyed the first three years...
At this point I find that I do not want, necessarily, to write of the girls I was at school with. Most of the memories are happy and the friendships certainly have lasted many years, unless sadly cut short in a few instances. Having worked with the mentally ill and...
It was wartime. We kept chickens. We had cats. The chickens inhabited a wire mesh enclosure taking up a large part of the vegetable garden. The cats would sit and stare at the chickens through the mesh, slinking gradually closer. The chickens would begin to assemble...