2003 - The Year of Outsourcing?
The rain has stopped but there's a gale blowing in its place. Large grey waves are crashing over the sea wall and catching small children on their new bicycles. Walk along a little further into Margate and you'll see small knots of refugees "taking the air".
I'm reminded that my great-grandfather, Andrew Mac Ewan tried to take a fishing boat from here with other 'Little Ships' on a 'Day Trip' to Dunkirk, sixty years ago, to collect another kind of refugee. He was a remarkable man and a Hemingway-style character. Thwarted by my great-grandmother's threat to leave him if, as expedition engineer, he joined Ernest Shackleton's voyage to Antarctica, he did the next best thing and in the first days of the Great War aged 39, he became a volunteer ambulance driver in the Belgium army, - 5th November 1914 from his passport - Somehow he survived this early form of off-road driving to become a war photographer for the …
The rain has stopped but there's a gale blowing in its place. Large grey waves are crashing over the sea wall and catching small children on their new bicycles. Walk along a little further into Margate and you'll see small knots of refugees "taking the air".
I'm reminded that my great-grandfather, Andrew Mac Ewan tried to take a fishing boat from here with other 'Little Ships' on a 'Day Trip' to Dunkirk, sixty years ago, to collect another kind of refugee. He was a remarkable man and a Hemingway-style character. Thwarted by my great-grandmother's threat to leave him if, as expedition engineer, he joined Ernest Shackleton's voyage to Antarctica, he did the next best thing and in the first days of the Great War aged 39, he became a volunteer ambulance driver in the Belgium army, - 5th November 1914 from his passport - Somehow he survived this early form of off-road driving to become a war photographer for the …