This narrative started out as what was supposed to be a single episode on a radio programme called 'Writers' World', back in 1994.
Like many unplanned things, it was like Topsy, it just grewed and grewed and grewed, and if you have to ask who Topsy is, you're far too young to be reading this book. Not because of the bad language, and there will be a little of that, but because most of the information is based back in the dim dark ages, way back, before things like television, PCs and internet and other electrical devices.
Back when things were simpler, not necessarily better, but simpler. I have tried to put down on paper the way things were back then so that my grandchildren will not lose sight of the fact that their grandfather really did live in another time and age.
As my eldest daughter stated, and she's old enough to know better, "it's like being in the Sullivans," which sort of sums it up. The Sullivans being an old black and white TV programme about a family during World War II.
Be warned, the most used phrase in this narrative will be, "I remember…", as I ramble through a rich and memorable, mostly irreverent, if not slightly off-beat look at life, with just an occasional bit of seriousness.
Also, be warned there is no rhyme or reason to this, basically no story; it just rambles. And all names of the people referred to have been changed to protect the innocent, but mostly my family who have long memories, and can be vicious when provoked.
I hope these mostly fictional rambling thoughts bring back memories of a time past, or at least bring a smile to your face.
---Neville W. Saffron. 2016
MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/HUMOUR & ENTERTAINMENT
ISBN: 978-0-9943861-0-6
Paperback - 424 pages. Cover artwork by Chris Wright
