For different kinds of assistance,

my gratitude goes to Erl and Anne Wilkie,

Brenda Harris, Stephen McGinty, Hazel Frew,

Jeannine Khan, Kirsten Wilkie, Sydney Altman,

Robert Burns, Joy Frew, Tomasso, Ed Breslin,

Diana Tyler, and my wife Rebecca

This book is dedicated

to the memory of my mother,

May Black, 1919–2001.