The author was born in Cheshire in 1932, leading a sheltered and (probably) privileged life until the outbreak of war in 1939, when as for so many others, children and adults alike, everything fell apart. Evacuation from London, family separated, boarding schools, the American occupation, rationing, air raids, D-Day and final victory are recalled through the memories of a young boy growing up in wartime. Public School, farmer’s boy, and then National Service in post-war Malaya bring the first part of this memoir to a close in 1952.
The second instalment to be published later (Still None The Wiser) covers 1952-1967 during which period the author spent some thirteen years in West Africa during the dying days of the colonial era and the dawning of African independence culminating in the outbreak of the Biafran War in 1966.
Since returning to England in 1968 after emigrating to Canada, the author has lived quite happily in the Lake District working for the Outward Bound Trust for more than twenty years until retiring in 1990. He is married and has two grown-up children.

The author was born in Cheshire in 1932, leading a sheltered and (probably) privileged life until the outbreak of war in 1939, when as for so many others, children and adults alike, everything fell apart. Evacuation from London, family separated, boarding schools, the American occupation, rationing, air raids, D-Day and final victory are recalled through the memories of a young boy growing up in wartime. Public School, farmer’s boy, and then National Service in post-war Malaya bring the first part of this memoir to a close in 1952.
The second instalment to be published later (Still None The Wiser) covers 1952-1967 during which period the author spent some thirteen years in West Africa during the dying days of the colonial era and the dawning of African independence culminating in the outbreak of the Biafran War in 1966.
Since returning to England in 1968 after emigrating to Canada, the author has lived quite happily in the Lake District working for the Outward Bound Trust for more than twenty years until retiring in 1990. He is married and has two grown-up children.