Month: August 2021

I left home in Kota-Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia in July 1965 to begin boarding school at Bedales School in Petersfield town, Hampshire county in the south of England at the age of fourteen and Adam Raven was one of the very first Bedalian that I befriended.  In June 2006 I received sad tidings of Adam’s death…

The ubiquitous Sandwich, whereby food such as servings of meat, cheese or salad is placed between two slices of bread to hold a quick and light meal was named after the English Forth Earl of Sandwich (1792). As a young man while serving his country as a soldier on the battlefields of Europe, the Forth…