Life Isn't All Smooth Waters

An interesting varied life from 1934-2014 experiences living in five countries with a stimulating mix of farming, British aristocracy, politicians and spies.

The author who was already at school in the UK when the Second World War was declared describes wartime childhood, post war life, his fathers service in MI6, military service in Germany, his career in agriculture managing the agricultural estates of the Queen Mothers and Mountbatten families, leading for six years a successful major protest organization and being a Member of a British Parliamentary Committee but declining to become an M.P. Emigrating to Canada in 1981, he started a new career with interesting changes. Although his wife with whom he had four children, died there in 1998, he later married a Cuban and now has a home in Cuba where he spends the majority of his time.