David is one of the baby boomers from parents still celebrating the end of the war. Born in Stamford in 1947, the family moved to the country when he was 11 years old to the Wooden House, described in the story, where the most impressionable period of his life was spent. Apart from a brief period in the Merchant Navy, his working life was in Financial Services. David has dined out many times over the years on this story when it was always greeted with incredulity, humour and warmth.
