Alan made the mistake of being born at both the wrong time and
in the wrong place. The year was 1936, a short time before the
outbreak of the Second World War. The place was suburban London not
far from Northolt, a major RAF fighter aerodrome. During the latter
part of the Blitz his parents evacuated him to safety in Paignton,
a seaside town in Devon a long distance from the German attacks on
the capital and its environs. However he little knew that life in
the air raid shelter among the falling bombs intended for Northolt
was far less onerous than living in an old Victorian house with the
admonitions of elderly grandparents constantly ringing in his
ears.
After the war he graduated in medicine but becoming dissatisfied
with the hierarchical class structure of the new National Health
Service, so redolent of the life in the environment of the class
consciousness of life with his snobbish grandparents, decided to
emigrate to Australia. Life In Tasmania proved too much for his
first marriage. He met 'the Blonde and together the two of them
sailed a Tasmanian built wooden cutter, daring the often
challenging waters of the Tasman Sea. On board the same boat they
explored beautiful coasts of Tasmania, in the process uncovering
some of the ghosts of the state's colonial past.
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