[…]And then something else happened because I then got engaged to somebody I’d met in London early in the war and he was an airman, I mean he was an air officer and he was in Cairo and he was a navigator on bombers, and at that time he’d been taken off active, he was not very young, I mean he was older[…]
[…] up to Portland Place and asked to see the Appointments Officer. I mean I wouldn’t have done it I don’t […]
[…] said, "All right, you can go and look after the officer's gardens." Only one particular garden, you know, so I […]
[…] he was an airman, I mean he was an air officer and he was in Cairo and he was a […]
[…]should ask me that. Because at this moment, but you and the retired operator from the Capitol is upstairs, breaking them up for scrap that was in the officers behind him. So I said, Oh, can I have a look? So he retreated, he was going up to get his car, I think, parked somewhere. And so we went back[…]
[…]ses, actors and actresses briefed up as the central characters, but then working with professionals, professional social workers, professional police officers, carers, probation officers, filming over a relatively controlled period of time, the outcome, how they dealt with these very, very, difficul[…]
[…]onishment, that my mother who I wouldn’t have said would say ‘Boo’ to a goose, apparently went up to Portland Place and asked to see the Appointments Officer. I mean I wouldn’t have done it I don’t think, [Laughter] and said, you know, why hadn’t her daughter been told whether she’d got this appoint[…]
[…]territories of Southern Rhodesia Northern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland. That was the briefing. And a thing struck me on the contract was "free passage for officer (I think it was called), and wife, and half a ton of furniture or luggage". So...damn me... I had to give him an answer by the Monday, it was […]
[…]esn't work the mercury is too heavy and it dropped back again. So you just have to blow and hold it. So I blew and held it out and the little medical officer wasn't he who bothered me with looking out the window at something for about the first 30 seconds. Right hold it hold it he kept saying. They […]
