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From Selsey to Turnham Green

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                                                                                                       My mater died at the end of 2005. She used to say on one or more occasion that she would never go to hospital and if she did she would not come out alive. As predicted this actually happened. Apparently, if I recall aright she died from the mrsa bug in Oxford.  A few years later my pater married with my blessing a new woman who happened to be Russian. Her name was Irina . Her family seemed to have a close connection with Putin. Her very wealthy son lived just outside Moscow in a large mansion apparently containing much marble  and surrounded by fir trees. She claimed to be a ballerina in her youth and had the power ...