大象传媒

Certainly an odd name, I must admit, but as good a title as any other that I might have come up with - this was my aunt's 'pet' name for me when I was young - a million years ago!
How many lifetimes I feel that I have lived since my young days during WW2. And how the world has changed too, in these past 60 years.
I'll never forget those early days - me, an only child living with my mother - an only child, that is, until my brother was born when I was 5 1/2 years old; but through those horrifying times of air-raid warnings, my red gas mask, taped up bus windows - 'against the blast' (of flying, broken glass) in the event of an attack; the picture in my mind's eye of my grandmother sitting in her chair smack in front of the bay window - 'The Duchess' they called her - sitting there, saying, "I'm not going into an air-raid shelter because of that ridiculous Hitler." And make no mistake about it - she meant what she said.
Yet through it all, we had lots of fun - a big family, so I had plenty of cousins, and we didn't think about the war very much atall - not like the grown-ups did.
Looking back, it was a veritable 'world of women.' All the men were at war somewhere.
Most of the grown-ups are gone now; my aunt, my uncles, my father, and of course my grandmother. But we all survived the war. Our family wouldn't have dreamed of doing anything but. My father and uncles all came home, with only one small injury between them.