Chapter Six
Time For Change
At home in the Kent countryside in the southeast of England, also known as the garden of England … with it’s beautiful lush fields of green, long winding country lanes, and thatched cottages with rose beds on front lawns and white picket fences … well, that all sounds idyllic, doesn’t it?
But it was, in fact, winter. Dirty, mushy, brown leaves were on the icy wet roads, trees were gnarly and bare without a single leaf; the days only lasted for what seemed like a few hours before it got dark again. The cold, foggy, misty moon was high and the stars hung in the black sky, twinkling the only sign of hope among the damp starkness of a typical English winter.
Not far from these English iconic cottages, and winding hedged country lanes, was a housing estate with m
