IT`S A WONDER THAT I`M HERE AT ALL.......

Doing this blog has just brought it home to me just how fortunate I seem to have been to still be here.

Being born six weeks before the outbreak of WWII was not the most auspicious start, followed by five years of bombardment.

Then I was thrown into Southampton Water in the hope that I might swim (at least I think it was in hope.) Then a year off school with a life-threatening illness.

Then the London Smog....then 731 days of military service....and so on through a chequered career and an interesting life which has just passed 68 years.

Seems to me I`m lucky to be here at all.