Welcome To The Barren Rock

Doreen Robinson

The transport plane, big bellied, like myself (seven months pregnant) was packed with service wives and overflowing with their children, on this day, in the early sixties, on our way to join our husbands in Aden.

My husband had applied for Singapore, known as a 'plum posting' but as a result of being 'carpeted' for an alleged insubordination had been earmarked for the notorious 'hot spot' in the middle east. ... (continues)