Dedication and foreword

For Joan
and for
Daniel, Justin, Cathy and David
and
Jerome, Hamish, Reggie, Hilary and Mackenzie


Foreword

When Spike Milligan's friend asked if he wrote forewords, he gleefully pressed a homophone into service and wrote:

Please
buy
this
book!

But this book is free.



I began writing it on Friday, 17th August, 2012, sixty days before my sixtieth birthday.
I've enjoyed the time spent remembering so many joys, times of fun and odd things that stick in my mind.
The greatest joy has been getting to know Jesus, my Lord and Saviour and Friend.
God's great kindness in bringing Joan and me together (and I say Joan and me deliberately) has resulted in so much love and happiness and fun and in our being favoured with nine descendants to share the joys with.
Aren't I the lucky one?

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