It's a sobering fifty years since we left Jamaica after completing our two-year contract to teach in a school in central Kingston so it's not surprising that we've lost touch with everyone we knew out there. That doesn't mean we have forgotten them, for many were good friends and neighbours, and we had some happy times with them. Angela, seen here with Elizabeth, was a nurse who lived near us, while....
....Blossom, left, helped around the house and looked after our two children, and Olda, her half-sister, worked for neighbouring teachers. They're seen here with Katy who was born in Jamaica.
This is the group of neighbours who lived in the four school bungalows and who gathered at tables set up on the grass opposite the houses to share the 1973 Christmas meal.
It appears that Melissa, which in its early approach looked as if it might hit Kingston badly, did most of its damage in the Black River area to the west, where we stayed when we visited Jamaica as tourists in 2010. The house we rented in nearby Treasure Beach (above) has disappeared from satellite maps but was probably destroyed about ten years ago, undermined when the cliff on which it was perched collapsed into the sea during an earlier hurricane.
We do hope that all those we knew are safe after hurricane Melissa. Our hearts are with you.
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