Chapter One Conclusion

Chapter One Conclusion.

Ted was very sagacious and this man took a dislike to him and would continually deny his request. All his paperwork was in order but in those days there were few complaint mechanisms in place and usually one just had to take disappointment on the ‘chin’ and get on with life. But Ted was not going to accept this man’s petulant behaviour so he seized the opportunity of having knowledge of his infidelity and threatened his old acquaintance with a final peremptory demand. He handled the situation only as he knew how; with audacity. He rehearsed a speech and said to the ‘servant’;

       “I know of your affair with Mavis. I see you sneak in practically every second day. I won’t ramble on with the details but I can tell you, if you don’t stamp my paperwork this time then you will suffer the consequences. If you don’t stamp them I’ll tell her husband and your wife of your indiscretions. It’s up to you!” Ted knew the husband of the women involved as a fantastic man who held down three jobs to support her lifestyle and as soon as he departed for work through the front door, her boyfriend (the officer come public servant) entered through the back door. Ted wanted the husband to find out but once he got what he wanted he never revealed the truth and suggested fate would prevail. Anyway the threat worked and not long after the struggle the Scotsdon’s were boarding a ship named the ‘Fairsea’ on ‘Troop Deck F’ and vulnerably bound for Sydney, Australia.

In later years when Don was in Australia and old enough to embrace the truth he was told of the struggle his parents went through to survive in England, the struggle to keep house and family as one, the asperities of war, and the lack of finance, security, and certainty. When he was in his senior years without the issues his parents faced he often wondered what life would have been like if he stayed in England, would he have enjoyed the sixties and seventies, the ‘Beatle’s’ era, ‘Twiggy’, ‘Petticoat Lane’, political growth? What would he have become? So many unanswered questions which everybody probably considers of their past; and even the wonders of hindsight leave emptiness in what may have been. Don’s thoughts would often turn to imaginations of the excitement and celebrations surrounding the social transformations recorded of those early years.

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Below is 'Victory in Europe' celebrations in England 1945. My mother and sister among the crowd.