Dedication:
To my dear father, who encouraged me to write 'parts' of my life for my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
To my husband, Alan, who 'nagged' me to 'get-on-with-it!'
My grateful thanks also to my dear friend, the editor, Pat Richardson, without whose interest in my poems this book would never have been published.
Also, to Roy Bisson, who provided the wonderful cartoons, and not forgetting those who have worked on the typesetting and sub-editing of the manuscript.
'God bless them, one and all.'
'Constanzia' - Connie Croft
Shoeburyness, Essex, England
January, 1997.
The poems on pages 8-116 deal with Croft's time in Australia.
