Growing Into Medicine
“The name occurred to him one day as we sat with Ralph in the garden near a prolific clematis that had draped itself round a pear tree, one of the last of the monastery trees, not destined to live for many more years. Among my favourite photos is that of Helen and her new husband Simon, taken in front of that tree with its mantle of white flowers, soon after their return from honeymooning in Africa.
Ralph retired from the prison service when he was sixty, in accordance with the regulations. The ...year was 1984, appropriately synchronous with Orwell’s book. He would have found the prison service with its modern ethos of privatisation a difficult place to work. In retirement I had expected him to become a keen member of the Bath chess club for he had played by post for many years. However after attending a few times he stopped, preferring the distance of correspondence and the impersonality of a computer. In the hope of prying him out of his chair into the open air I acquired a replacement dog.MoreLess
Ralph retired from the prison service when he was sixty, in accordance with the regulations. The ...year was 1984, appropriately synchronous with Orwell’s book. He would have found the prison service with its modern ethos of privatisation a difficult place to work. In retirement I had expected him to become a keen member of the Bath chess club for he had played by post for many years. However after attending a few times he stopped, preferring the distance of correspondence and the impersonality of a computer. In the hope of prying him out of his chair into the open air I acquired a replacement dog.MoreLess
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