Well what a small world. As usual I have had a stall at both the Highland Field Sports Fair at Moy and the Galloway Country Fair at Moffat.
I take a selection of my books, especially those with a Scottish or Borders local hunting, shooting or fishing theme. I do some selling, some buying of books and some networking with customers old and new.
But this year I also met up with John Crofts who I don’t think I have seen for 54 years. We were both in the British army in Germany after the war, he was on radar and guns, I was signals. Our connection and happy memory is of the skiffle band in which we both played! He was on the washboard I was on the guitar… and we earned more “skiffling” (in the officers’ club for example) than from our service salary which was just 18 shillings a week.
David Grayling and John Crofts
