Europe, 1963 |
 My paternal grandmother, Olive Roberts, liked three-wheeled Heinkel bubble cars: in the course of the last twenty years of her life, she owned several of them, and this is a photograph (taken I don’t know where or when) of Olive standing in one of her Heinkels. While I was in Europe in 1963, Olive was living and working in Australia, and – in an act of amazing trust and generosity – she let me, a callow 19-year-old, use the bubble car that she’d left in the garage of her small house in Swanage, Dorset, and … |