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Here are some pictures of Mr George Lillicrap (Esq.). He is a good friend of my step-father, Bernard.
Before you start, Lillicrap is an honourable old Cornish name, I'll have you know.
George himself does not have internet access, or even a computer. Nor does he have a mobile phone (yet). Bernard has asked him in the past why he is not more up-to-date with the cutting edge of modern technology. His response; "I've got a bike, and a Rayburn."
George himself is a resident of Sussex. As you see, he makes his living selling fish from his mobile stall. To the right we have a series of snapshots demonstrating a typical transaction.Bernard himself was a master builder (subsequent to his employment by Mr Wiggins, a well-known Sussex builder in his time), but since his retirement from that profession, has taken up blacksmithing in memory of his son, Ian, who was an outstanding apprentice smith and had just attained his journeyman's certificate before his untimely death in a motorbike accident at the age of nineteen. Ian's brother, James, is a gardener. Another of Bernard's friends is Mike Feeny-Brown, who has a glass eye. He lost the real one back in the war, when, as a little boy, he was dismantling a mortar bomb that he found; it exploded, injuring his face. His friends ran to fetch his mother, who had to carry him back across the fields herself. Mike is an electrical engineer, now semi-retired (he still gets up to all kinds of antics though, or so I am told).
He and Bernard became friends after Mike's knife-throwing stunt, which embedded a blade in the door against which Bernard was leaning. It was half an inch to the left of Bernard's head. Quite impressive for someone with one eye, I think. Their other special friend was Curly Price, of excellent memory.
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