Baby and a Backpack: Pictures from the Book

These are pictures from  the Book I wrote Baby and a Backpack

Living in Bali before I met The Blonde.

Pregnant with Poppy in Glastonbury

At the airport with a 12 week old baby and an around-the-world ticket.

Villa Poppy in Bali.

Poppy in the English Countryside helping me to garden.

The Dazzler, my father when he was a wrestler.

Me, a wild teenager living with my mother.

It took me a quite a while to get fit and well again after my teenage years

Poppy in Hawaii with her freind the parrot

In LA with Ted

Rosemary, the kind lady who helped me in England.

Gwellar, Rosemary’s dog

Poppy’s Nana Helen; such a wonderful woman.

With my sister Kay when we were kids

I got to see my brother Dax again in 2014. Sadly I do not get to see him for years at a time because we live so far apart.

Dax and Kay together again too.

The baby shoes I had made for the front cover of my book.

 

My Life in Pictures: What I Saw in Shanghai This Week

It is so hot in Shanghai everyone is wilting and flopping. I thought this guy next to the metro was dead and in Ikea there were more than  the usual people having a nap on the displays. The kids outside my lane have a new game: Ninja Turtles. I love their use of water-melon covers and melons are still exploding in our fruit shops due to over-use of growth hormones. Riding my bike I now turn up at places looking like a little swimming pool and the Wardorf hotel on the Bund is one of my favorite cool-places, to run around on these hot Shanghai nights…