SOMEONE ASKED  "Who are you?"

I was part of the "Following Dillon's Trail Expedition" of 2004, a group of 6 cousins and 3 courageous companions who trekked across Tanzania, searching for "The way that they went."    But by then I was fired up, wanting to write the Doctor's story, wanting to describe the Doctor's adventures.

 The greatest challenge ahead would be the desire to describe Dillon's ambitious undertakings, knowing all the while he had experienced a different Africa, he had grown up in a different age with what you and I would call 'flawed values.'  I had never met anyone who had ever known him  My grandfather had been 3 when Dillon died. I never knew my grandfather!

 

 This photo was taken when 

I was being given a lesson in Swahili.

Everyone we met on our journey

through Tanzania in 2004

was interested and keen to help

in any way possible.

The book is:

 Dr. William Edward Dillon

Navy Surgeon

in Livingstone's Africa

and a full chapter is devoted to our quest of Following Dillon's Trail.

         And what is this pic about?

It's a photo taken south of Dublin, Ireland, of me with my Mum, about 15 years ago.

On December 9, 2013 a book I wrote on my Mum, Daphne Wormell, was launched in Christ Church Cathedral in
Dublin, Ireland.  It was a very grand affair, attended by hundreds of people, some having flown in from Australia, South Africa, New York, Canada, Germany and England.  Lots of Irish there too.

The name of that book is "With Dignity and Grace" and it's about a brilliant scholarly housewife whose aims included women priests in the Anglican Church of Ireland and the introduction of Playgroups for children in Ireland.

You can read all about it on the publisher's website      www.hinds.ie

If you are interested in linking to websites carrying details of activities around the book launch, type the following into your google search bar: 

"With Dignity and Grace"  Daphne Wormell

 

There you will find more than enough, including a radio interview done in the Cathedral, when lots of people I knew were strolling by, waving and calling out "Hello Julia!  Haven't seen you for ages!"

Enough for one day!