Page 6 - IT'S A RUM LIFE BOOK FOUR Volume 1 "Northcote 1984 to 1998"

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Each chapter is a “stand alone” story.

We begin with calamity, our lives change for good and ever.
We move from a beautiful Georgian Country House to a small farm cottage.
I have no proper income and have to rely on Ruth to be our wage earner.

Help arrives from good neighbours from the past and then another change of direction for
a few years. A heart attack does not help things!

The chance to have old Ebony home again will change our lives in a way we could never
imagine.
There are good times and very bad times, then as the years go by even worse times.
Burglaries, a huge fire, and more!

We have to jump through huge “hoops” to even open our centre to the public.
Our original plan for a family enterprise, quickly becomes a sanctuary for animals with
problems.

Goliath comes to stay and opens another avenue of learning we never imagined.

Filming for the BBC and then later for a major motion picture is all part of the experience.
The National Lottery destroys our income virtually overnight.

National bank interest rates reach a never before high.
Ruth continues to be our wage earner as our big four legged family increases.

We are plagued by a ghost and asked to provide horse power for funerals.

A chance to write diary stories for my old employer's weekly newspaper, begins the
It's a Rum Life Book Series.

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