Interesting backgrounds continued. . . Variety is the Spice of Life.

In my last blog post I was talking about the interesting backgrounds of our adoptive sons. They range from white British, to Jamaican, Nigerian/Ghanaian and Dominican. Now, with the birth of our grandchildren, our family has added further links, namely Trinidad and Tobago. . . .

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…as well as Northern Ireland and Scotland

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My own heritage is partly French.

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When I was at school – at the end of the 1940s, we moved from London to Surrey. At the school I attended in Streatham – London, children came from very varied and “interesting/exotic” backgrounds, but it was not like that in the school in Reigate, the Surrey town we moved to.

My school friend told me recently (60+ years after the event!) that my arrival at the local school in Surrey was keenly awaited. Because of my French name, they felt sure that I would look “exotic”. I didn’t know that at the time and I find it so amusing today. I do remember them all crowding round me to stare at me, but I have no idea what their conclusion was!

(I remember them all trying to shock me by saying swear words, but for some strange reason, they knew more swear words than I had ever heard of and I didn’t react because I didn’t even know they were “bad” words. That is my story and I’m sticking to it!)

(Not sure how old I was in the first picture, but I was 9 when I first went to France and was photographed by the Eiffel Tower.)

As everybody knows, in many cities today, people come from a great variety of backgrounds.

 We live in a vast inter-connected world. Let us celebrate!

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