About the author

Leslie STANLEY

<p>I&#39;m an uncomfortable corporate citizen and haphazard blogger.&nbsp;I was, as Groucho Marx said, born at an early age, in London (England). My parents moved to the Kent coast when I was seven. I caught up with them a year or so later.</p><p>My school days were unremarkable. The only subjects I had any affinity with were english and geography. I think this stemmed from my parents, who both spoke English, often at the same time, moving house every few years when my father sought out places,&nbsp;in various windswept parts of Britain,&nbsp;he could &quot;fix up&quot;. Despite our protestations, the family usually went with him.&nbsp;</p><p>I recently discovered that due to a quirk of fate, my loving mother and father had not, as planned, migrated to Australia before I was born. It took me some years to come to terms with this glaring error of judgement on their part. Some days I think I still haven&#39;t.</p><p></p>