In 1944....

...My very beautiful Auntie Anjey went to a dance in Dalwhinnie
and met a wildly handsome English soldier from Stoke On Trent
who was training at Spean Bridge.

He was called Philip Temple Pinfold

Philip came North again when the War was over. He was met at
Inverness Station by my deeply mistrusting Uncle Donald:

"Are you the Englishman who wants to marry my sister?".

Philip survived a wild night out with Donald (who from then on
enthusiastically approved of him) and he and Anjey got engaged.

This China Lady is a present that Philip brought for my Grandmother,
Kirsty MacIver, (Mama), Anjey's Mother. Signed by Diana Warf,
she had been designed in Stoke before the war but never produced.

I found her in my mother's house eight years ago. I don't know
why she was there. I borrowed her to photograph for a book cover.

(Things drift around my family like cigarette smoke used to do
in crowded rooms).

Philip died in 1956 when he was still very young (and still very
handsome) of injuries that had happened to him in the War.