A Chip off the Old Block!
It's early summer and the garden is green and beautiful. I am not a natural gardener, despite being British. My sister is 9 years older than me so we grew up in different phases of our father's life. When my sister was in her formative years, Dad was into gardening. Liz was born in London, just after the war. Housing was in short supply in London, due to wartime bombing, so the New Towns Act was passed in 1946, to relieve the housing pressures by building new towns outside the city. The new towns were built in phases, each as an extension of an established community. The new, planned communities represented a big step up from crowded London; they were the towns of the future! Stevenage, the town where I grew up, was the first of the new towns. The pedestrianized shopping center was opened by Her Majesty, the Queen and the Queen Mother laid the foundation stone for the church of St Andrew and St George nearby. These are the honors of being the first! When my parents and siste...
