Born in 1929 and bred in the back streets of Liverpool and still turned up at the publishers desk.  I guess I must be lucky,  my mum rented a house in Garden Street, Liverpool on the edge of town.  Dad was injured in the 1914-1918 war and was paralysed down the right side of his body.  He got nine shillings a week war pension and my mum got a pound from the Public Assistance. Life was tough but interesting, evacuated in the war then later joined the RAF and eventually emigrated to South Africa in the early 1970's and then onto Rhodesia which later became Zimbabwe. Travelled back and forth then eventually back to Wales in 1985.  Our family history contains many interesting and great characters have also included writers in the past.