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Born Manchester, England - lived in various places around the world and now resident in Romania.
Earn my living in the classroom, keep my sanity in the garden.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs My true garden story

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Dismissing as unworthy the suggestion that I am the biggest pest in a garden which thrives when I am absent but accepting, after several battles, there is no chance of growing watermelon living so close to a forest inhabited by wild pig - I suppose the most influential garden story I can tell is that of my father's garden. Both my dad and my mother grew up in the cobbled brick jungle known as inner-city Manchester just after the First World War. In 1932, recently married and with the first of five children, they were re-housed in the satellite garden-city' newly named, Wythenshawe. This dr...

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