Chapters
- Was your llife ever in danger?
- When did you first fall in love?
- Do you believe in fate?
- Where are your parents/grandparents from? Do they speak any other languages?
- How has being a parent changed you?
- If you could give your younger self advice, what would it be?
- What was the most profound spiritual moment of your life?
- What country that you’ve travelled to has surprised you the most?
- Preface
- January
- What did you want to be growing up?
- What’s the first major news story or political event you remember living through as a child?
- May
- What do you remember about your family home?
- What are your memories of primary school?
- June
- Were your parents strict?
- Have you taken part in any demonstrations?
- July
- Remember your first car?
- Why Bee?
- Have you lived through any wars?
- August
- What are your memories of university/college?
- September
- Have you met any famous people?
- October
- Etc …
- November
- What’s the most important piece of advice anyone gave you and why?
- December
- Describe your father and write one favourite memory about him.
- Conclusion
- February
- Describe your mother and write about one favourite memory with her.
- March
- Did you have any serious accidents as a child?
- What was/is your relationship with your siblings? Has this changed?
- April
A Life Well Lived
Have you met any famous people?
Princess Elizabeth at Pudsey Park
Famous people? A few, well my claim to fame was at one time meeting the Queen, well she was Princess Elizabeth when she visited Pudsey Park and spotted me aloft a gate post and told me to “Takecare”. Does that count? I met David Hockney at The Students Club in Bradford many times in the 50s; his younger brother John hung out there with many others from BGS. Many years later I was interviewed by Sir Michael Cadbury and Lord de Lisle plus four other Knights of the Realm and of course Mary Soames when she presented me with my Winston Churchill Medal. Suresh introduced me to Digby Fairweather at the Marlborough Jazz Festival and to Acker Bilk who was the President of the Bristol Jazz club we were both members of.