The plane touched down at Heathrow at 7:40am, I picked up my hire car a soft top sports saloon. I had ordered a a bottom range basic car. As it was out of season they have to have so many miles on a car before they can sell it on. So I was lucky I now had a nice flash […] Read more »

We left the story in 1983, life moved on with a emigration from Nottingham UK to Australia in 1986. A series ‘Reach for The Sky’ on TV has just concluded. This was followed by a program on a young lady searching and finding her father. They meet on a railway station with ‘The first time I saw his/her face’ song […] Read more »

The nursing home. What I already knew from my adopting parents was where I was born. Birdhurst Lodge in Croydon Surrey UK. An Auntie had worked there and mum & dad used to send a donation from time to time and we received a publication from them. In 1974 on a work visit to Croydon in my lunch hour I […] Read more »

The biggest decision I made in my life was to find my birth family. I was about 5  when my parents told me that I was adopted and that I had been specially chosen. Being so young it never bothered me, it was only later that I asked a few questions. A few weeks before my 45 birthday a snap […] Read more »