Thirteen Formative Years



HOLIDAYS – Rhodesia: A photograph of the Victoria Falls, which we visited in 1953 and then again four years later during our second family holiday in Rhodesia. On our 1957 trip – during which, the mind boggles to think about it, there were six of us in the car (in descending order of age, they were Bobby, Lilian, me, Stuart, Charlie, and Linda; the latter two were six and not quite four years old respectively) – two things stood out for me. First, we visited the Great Zimbabwe ruins, which were highly impressive. Second, I was 13 years old and very proud of my luminescent-green walk socks.