No Mad Man by Jonathan Townsend
No Mad Man by Jonathan Townsend 1 ONCE upon a time. I, Jonathan Townsend, was born under British-rule in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, in the Union of South Africa, Planet Earth, in 1951 (Earth-time). Apart from once, at the age of two, losing my earth-mother for a minute or so, whilst walking with her at a busy road-crossing in the centre of the city, when I remember other earthlings concerned about me being lost and my earth-mother finding me again, I don't remember much. Towards the end of my second year on this planet, I moved with my earth-family to Ndola, in what was then Northern Rhodesia, also a British colony (presently called Zambia). (For the sake of brevity, I will from here on refer to any of my earth-family, or other earthlings, et cetera, in the same way that they refer to each other, e.g.: family, mother, father, people, humans, homo sapiens, or what have you.) Just as a long line of my ancestors had done, my father worked for the British colonial government (he as a civil-engineer - roads and bridges). My mother was an artist-painter and played the piano when she wasn't looking after us kids - she had the help of a black maid (we had a large house) and a black gardener (and a large garden). Although I remember more from my time in Ndola, not much of it has any bearing on the purpose of this account, so I'll proceed to the next stage.
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