I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.