I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
From Mary Wesley
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.
I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!
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