AND SO IT BEGINS 1948
It’s 1948, I am 0. At 8:30am on May 3rd nurse Makie delivers me into the world at home in our bungalow. Mother has had two boys and I am a late accident. She desperately wants a girl. Nurse Makie announces “It’s a boy”, and mother refuses to look at me for a quarter of an hour, but then relents. The war has been over three years and outside it is Spring, after the worst winter for 50 years with snow four feet deep -