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Happenchance
- Change History
This
memoir is an ongoing piece of work. Changes, additions, or just editing, may
take place at any point in time and be updated on the website accordingly, and
immediately, so please check the list below of major reworkings, with the
dates they are made to the site. This is therefore an ongoing and interactive,
online creation that can change at any time, as required, when newer or deeper
memories, or fresh insights, come to light. The following changes have so far
occurred:-
| Date |
Changes |
| Dec. 2005 |
Added a third gallery of
Union-Castle related pictures, plus Website echoed, banner and ad free
at http://members.shaw.ca/GascoyneR/Happenchance.htm |
| Summer 2005 |
Added a second gallery of
Union-Castle related pictures, plus included "Confessions of a
Boarder" by Hamish Adam as a link to the Haberdashers' page of my
schooldays. |
| Oct. 2004 |
Added others' memories from scans of The
Bethanian, 1960 and 1961, plus WW2 wartime memories copied from the Old
Bethanians' Society's website. |
| Jan. 2004 |
Family Thumbnail Pictures in
Appendix B - can now be enlarged, as required, by clicking on any
image. All pictures in galleries can now be enlarged, but not embedded
images. |
| Nov. 2003 |
Scanned and added a short history
and older memories from the Centenary edition of The Bethanian of
1966, along with a few embedded photos to support those accounts. |
| Oct. 2003 |
Extension of Chapter 3 details
about my main schooldays, to make it an atmospheric scene of interest to other
Old Boys of the two schools. Their websites now link to
it. |
| July 2003 |
Added considerable, additonal
copies of family related material to support the Forbears, Chapter 1,
particularly for the Macintosh family in Australia, dating from the
early 1900s. |
| March 2003 |
Extracted memoir Chapters 5 to 7
as my Life at Sea with Union-Castle, plus related photographic
galleries, to support the RMS Windsor Castle Trust, a new charity to
be registered to save the ship for permanent display in Liverpool,
rather like the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. Coupled
with these changes, the design and look of new parts of the site were
reworked to distinguish the main sections: My original business
website, particularly the Articles area well used by University
students of auditing within Canada; The Union-Castle and Windsor
Castle material of interest to ocean liner history buffs; and, the
main Memoir section covering events during my life to date. |
| May 2002 |
Decided to make the memoir an
interactive document that I would self-publish on the Web, linked to
my main business webpages, developed since their inception in 1999.
Memoir originally named "Plateaux", I
should explain this title. However accurately or misconceived, some years
ago I was introduced briefly to what was referred to as Existentialism,
where I understood that we spend our lives in a series of separate
stages. Each of these can be seen as a plateau where we experience
similar feelings and motivation for a number of years, but from where we
depart, eventually, for a new level, caused by either a series of minor,
or a few major events in our experience. Viewed in hindsight, we can
therefore look back over our lives and recognize that there were a
number of significant plateaux that are strung together to account for
our time here on earth. This is, therefore a collection of memories of
my life so far, grouped together onto what I now see as the plateaux that I
have visited. These groupings would now cover chapters 2-4, 5-7, 8-9,
10-11, 12-13, 14-15. Decided to rename it Happenchance as a better and more
descriptive name for the lucky and random nature of the contents. |
| Feb. 2002 |
I
started writing this account as an autobiography and then set it aside
for a few years. I picked it up again on the Nile at Edfu, en route to
Luxor, on Friday 12th May 2000 at
about 5am - emerging from early morning thoughts of a semi
autobiographical novel, reusing the original ideas and material. This too got dropped
but resurfaced, again on a ship in the early hours of the morning, also
about 5am, returning to Miami from a Caribbean cruise in early February 2002. As I
had been reading Peter Ustinov's book "Dear Me", it seemed
that I should also recount what the family has gleaned and researched
about our forbears, showing other unconventional paths that preceded
me.
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