Chapter 1 – The Club Matilda Sheffield-John glanced languidly around the veranda of the club house from the comfort of her favourite wicker chair. In the distance she could see a knot of men gathered around the chair where her husband Major Sheffield-John was relating his tired old stories of glorious battles for the Raj in distant places. … Continue reading Priya
On the map above I’ve shaded green the States visited in our 1980 trip Chapter 1 – East Coast Travel On April 10 1980 Ian, Georgine and two girls Helen and Gina picked up hand carry items and trudged wearily onto a Kuwait Airways flight to London. We’d been due to depart hours before take off, but for some reason I’m still not clear on … Continue reading First USA Visit
We’d just finished our journey on the narrow winding road approximately one hour drive from Pune city in India, and entered the area of the dam delivering our water supply. We were being shown around the district by expatriate friends Weldon and Clara and they thought it would be nice to show us the beautiful park areas surrounding this dam and spend time picnicking there. … Continue reading Night the Dam Burst
Searching by the riverside for specks of gleaming gold Sluicing through the pebbles and the sand, Hope to make a fortune for it’s here the miner told Nuggets found were bigger than your hand. Back from California when the goldfields ceased to yield, Australia now the land of hoped success, Shanty town now sitting where there once was grazing field, Every miner working under stress. … Continue reading Gold for Mary
New Beginnings Mili stood silently in front of the newly placed marble slab. Freshly imprinted on the slab was the name Angelo Marconi and in smaller letters it indicated he’d died in a motorcycle accident at age 30. Mili, just turned 29, stared at the freshly turfed ground around the slab and bent down to place flowers in the vase provided at the foot of … Continue reading Culture Clash
The press of city traffic passes by With hopeful eye she watches as they go More people, should she give another try? Perhaps another coin to her they’d throw But none of them would even spare a glance This ragged miss was standing in their way ‘Till someone special happened there by chance He stood there wondering what it was he’d say What fate had … Continue reading The Vagrant
James Elijah and Mary Unwin Immigrants to their “Promised Land” Queensland, Australia Chapter 1 – The Odyssey In the County of Cheshire, England early 1870’s dark tales were being told by school teachers and seafaring men about a great island continent in the Antipodes known as the Great Southland or Australia. Many who went there were never heard from again. It seemed that it was … Continue reading The Immigrants
Ever ready Fred In the month of August monsoon rains over Southern Asia steadily deposit their liquid gold into the great river systems, and much of the resulting flood passes through the country of Bangladesh on its way to the Bay of Bengal. During dry season the country is crisscrossed by hundreds of channels in this delta region, but by August the swelling channels spill … Continue reading Riding the River in Bangladesh
Preamble: The news media of today highlight a very sad and malignant sickness in society which causes ruin to those who indulge and those whose lives they impact. This story, a composite of many of those news reports shows how even those who have not suffered abuse trauma in their childhood years can through bad choices end up as the refuse of society. Fallen Tree: … Continue reading Fallen Tree
It only seemed like yesterday they occupied the land In former times were pastures lush and green, The land would yield its bounties for this happy family band And poverty was nowhere to be seen. Bill scanned the fields around him and he tried to force a smile, Those memories of family long ago, His parents and his siblings on recall from memory file, The … Continue reading Drought
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