
So You Think You Want to Foster?
At the age of four, because of the Easter bombings in May 1941, we
were bombed out of our beautiful home and evacuated to a farm thirty
miles north of Belfast, Northern Ireland. A year or so later, we returned
and lived in a very deprived area in the city. My father, an old soldier,
was an alcoholic who smoked in the region of a thousand cigarettes a
week, so, the cupboards were bare and family life br...
At the age of four, because of the Easter bombings in May 1941, we
were bombed out of our beautiful home and evacuated to a farm thirty
miles north of Belfast, Northern Ireland. A year or so later, we returned
and lived in a very deprived area in the city. My father, an old soldier,
was an alcoholic who smoked in the region of a thousand cigarettes a
week, so, the cupboards were bare and family life br...
