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puncture but fed the air pipe out to refill the tyre. In few minutes it was filled and off we went again trying to get away from the traffic so we could do the repair properly. Matthew was driving while I was outside disconnecting the air pipe. He was in such a rush to get moving I could not keep up. Falling over fell in the mud and was pulled along for quite a distance, mud everywhere and feeling really mad! Matthew only stopped the bus for another tyre had gone and the first was near flat again. The second tyre we found had picked up three nails and was a real problem to repair. Stan and I had to do all this work ourselves the others went off to see the town. When they returned Matthew remarked we had taken a long time with the job why wasn’t it finished! We both could have murdered him and I fear we had quite a few words. Things were never quite the same again. I fear we had quite a few words. Things were never quite the same again.

These were the only two holidays spent with the medical fraternity

Though they had problems and I had a rough time some of the time, it was certainly an experience. It was cheap and I did not require a lot of cash for food and living, Best of all

I saw countries I could never had been able to visit at that time in the 1950’s I also got to know how some student doctors lived though I cannot say I liked that side of them.

One of the girls Angela Taylor I introduced to the group and she celabrated her twenty first birthday while we were away in Yugoslavia. She was studying Zoology at the Poly and helped us with the Poly shows. We became great friends and I used to visit her at her parents house in Maidenhead Her father owned the company of Taylor Typewriters I spent many happy days there and also had a lovely house in Hampstead Marion had just decided to break and I made some advances to Angela to fill this void but I felt she wanted just a friend not a serious relationship. Later on this friendship was to last over fifty years and only broke on her untimely death in 1999.

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