The Old Bordenian Association

After a career in teaching and a long flirtation with the French way of life through a house in the Perigord, Edwin Westacott (Borden 1940-45), together with his wife, Jan, went to live permanently in 2004 in a small village named Pointis-Inard, deep in the South of France not far from the Spanish border.  Readers of The Maroon will be familiar with a number of articles which he contributed over the years, and which were memorable not only for their content but for their style.  They were full of self-deprecating humour and keen observation.

Over the past two years or so, he and Graham Barnes have exchanged sporadic emails – usually commenting on all the trivial things which now fill their lives.  Graham thinks that Edwin’s stories and anecdotes deserve a much wider audience and has persuaded Edwin, very reluctantly, to agree to the publication on the Website of a few of the choicest examples.  They are not only very funny but detail experiences with which many of us can identify, despite not living in France.

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Here is the second of the reminiscences of our peripatetic Old Bordenian, Philip Spencer Drury, who has spent most of his teaching career in improbable places!  This story relates to an incident in Vietnam where he now lives.

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