Valentine Goes To London

And his little black book

Photo by Erick Tang on Unsplash

In my memory, my Uncle Valentine was quite the glamorous individual. He had studied hard to become a dentist and by working assiduously had managed to buy his own surgery in the thriving suburb of Lane Cove in Sydney, Australia.

Some years later he sold his practice and with the proceeds of the sale he did what so many Australians did in the ’60s; he…