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Raised by a single mother on welfare during the 1930's depression and World War II in the Scottish Highlands, Ian spends his childhood trying to get enough to eat and stay warm. During an adolescence apprenticed to a drunken blacksmith, he also begins a lifelong love affair with music-making while wavering between the strictures of the Salvation Army and the worldly pleasures of the outside world. <br>Life begins to improve when Ian enters the Royal Air Force, serving five years as an aircraft engine mechanic and bandsman in the United Kingdom and then Egypt. In the latter, he experiences the consequences of the Arab walkouts that eventually led to the Suez Canal crisis. Most hilarious is his tale Jig-a-Jig in the Desert when the small military water treatment plant he supervises is invaded by Arab prostitutes. <br>Returning to Britain, he marries his pen-pal, Mary, completes his military career and enters into civilian life, finally settling on his lifetime career as a machinist. Two daughters are born, one of whose life is saved at birth by a bottle of Scotch whisky. <br>Despite getting established in Scotland, Ian gets itchy feet and thinks of emigrating. Misled by the inflated

Author

FRIESENORESS, Ian Moore-Morrans

Publisher

FriesenPress

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781770972483

Subjects

History, Humanities