The story tells of how Jim came to Canada and met his wife Elizabeth He continued on with surveying for several years, and this work took him to many pristine and remote areas of B.C. In 1962 he and his family moved to Portland Oregon where their second daughter was born, and where he formed his own successful Construction Company, building many homes and apartment buildings. In 1971 he returned to Victoria to own and operate the city's largest Landscaping Company. In 1979 he sold this business and became a landlord, at which pursuit he is presently engaged. Jim in an artist (watercolor) a...
The story tells of how Jim came to Canada and met his wife Elizabeth He continued on with surveying for several years, and this work took him to many ...
I was just one of many thousands of healthy and fit young men living in the U.K. during the 40's and 50's who were given no choice (other than prison) and who were conscripted by the British government to serve in the "Armed Forces" for two years of their lives - it was called National Service. This was happening at a time in the lives of these young men, that I like to refer to as "the beginning of manhood years." Most of us had just completed a trade apprenticeship, or some lengthy training in a specific vocation, and there were also some of us who had earned a university degree. We were,...
I was just one of many thousands of healthy and fit young men living in the U.K. during the 40's and 50's who were given no choice (other than prison)...
Jim has taken us along, to witness in our minds the destructive changes that the Industrial Revolution wrought on the two streams that flowed into, and through, his home town, and he has also given an evocative reminiscence of growing up in Barrhead, Scotland, just before and after the Second World war. He took us from an early career of animal husbandry (rabbits) to the war ---introducing along the way a number of friends, family and street characters. The war brought out personal recollections of the building of the family air raid shelter, and the Clydebank Blitz. Central to all this was...
Jim has taken us along, to witness in our minds the destructive changes that the Industrial Revolution wrought on the two streams that flowed into, an...
Michael Elcock, writer: It is said that without curiosity we are nothing. Few of us have the sensitivity to take on board the little things that invest the world with magic, and generate a whole that is grander than the sums of its parts, but Jim's tale imparts a sense of wonder that characterises his unique way of seeing the world. This evocative memoir draws you into a life of rich observation, travel and exploration. Some of it is seen through the lens of golf, to be sure. But Jim's writing contains a world filled with the beauty that comes from seeing each day as a renewal; a chance for...
Michael Elcock, writer: It is said that without curiosity we are nothing. Few of us have the sensitivity to take on board the little things that inves...