'...a lucky place, a lucky time, and lucky to be alive'
'When Prime Minister Harold Macmillan famously stated, ‘You’ve never had it so good’, I was 10 year old and miserable, stuck on a hill in an all-boys school. But despite an at times unhappy start, some dreadful mistakes and a rather unpleasant illness, I came to realise that I had been born in a lucky place and at a lucky time – and was lucky to be still alive.