...and a friendly group awaiting me at the Leatherhead Community Association. I was speaking to them about Caroline Chisholm, the Australian pioneer heroine.
This is the part of the world that has so many echoes from my childhood...family expeditions to the river Mole where my father fished and we'd have a picnic...walks in the Surrey countryside...and although so much has changed, so much hasn't and it's easy to feel at home.
The Britain of today is a place where, suddenly, and with great depth of understanding, one can have a sense of great alienation, of not belonging. So perhaps it's good just sometimes to relax into familiarity, memories and the joy of shared references to history, to children's books, and more...
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