Classics Monthly

IAIN AYRE TIME AND PLACE

If you are mobile, then you can pick where you want to live, but you also have to pick the right time to live there. You might already be in a good place at a good time, but as populations rise, this is going to get harder, particularly in small and crowded countries.

The photo below is of my uncle Alastair’s MGB GT. He organised himself a thoroughly nice life, at the right times and in the right places. After Navy service during WW2, during which he retained a low

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