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Tall Pansies
There can be something pathetic about inheritors of great wealth. Doug Meyers plaintively trying to bring us to an appreciation of the awesome responsibilities that beset the... › more
Fancy Dress
You never know, as the Public Trust will assure you, what life will throw at you. An entomological friend of ours was ill advised enough to take his wife with him on an... › more
Pearl
Gentleness and eccentricity, - that's how I remember Auntie Pearl. Actually she had a bad start in life. Her mother wanted this, her first born, to be named Margaret... › more
Jack van der Zyp
Jack was a Dutch immigrant, short and blond and amazingly fit. Like most of his kind he was prepared to have a go at anything, which I suppose is the reason they have been such... › more
Dad
My father features so largely in my life that many of the stories of my past are really his stories or make some reference to him. However the early part of his life needs to... › more