A Conversation for My Garden in Salisbury, Rhodesia

My Mother

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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows

Hi alsoran80,

I've just come across this Entry of yopurs while I was searching for Entries about 'Salisbury'.

My mother, long since passed on, I'm afraid, was born in Umtali, just outside Salisbury, Rhodesia. She met my Dad when he was stationed in Rhodesia with the RAF during WWII.

It's always been my ambition to visit Harare. Maybe I will some day.

A


My Mother

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AlsoRan80

Hi BigAl,

Have just come aCross your posting.

Umtali was a lovely litte town. right on the border of Zimbabwe and Mocanbique. ALsi very near the East of Zim and where the mountains of Troubeck, which overlooked the hills aMocambique, It was a marvellous country and we loved it.

You must visit it one day when a certain gentleman is no longer there.

Go well,

Christiane
AR90
Thursday 3rd September 2009 11.10 BST !1

gO WELL,

cHRISTIANE.


My Mother

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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows

Both my parents are now sadly deceased. I believe my Mum lived in a hostel for girls in Umpali at the time she met my father. My father's RAF Squadron was the first to be equipped with the Gloster Meteor A12746162 - Britain's first jet fighter. I believe his squadron was initially/mainly involved with training aircrew on the Harvard


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