I was lost in Russia for a while you know<\/i><\/p>\n
I said as I walked across the flat chalk fields near the Kingsdown cliffs<\/p>\n
My sisters Una and Muriel were with me<\/p>\n
I had not seen either of them for twenty-five years<\/p>\n
Prior to my release<\/p>\n
The huge white cliffs had not aged<\/p>\n
But we were all much older and very tired<\/p>\n
Life had taken its toll on each of us<\/p>\n
Young people climbed on the remains of this once secret military establishment without a care in their world<\/p>\n
A girl looked at my gaunt features and closely shaven head and ran away<\/p>\n
I think my appearance had alarmed her<\/p>\n
But once this was my playground<\/p>\n
Where I had played with my sisters and our friends<\/p>\n
But this was before I made the biggest mistake of my foolish life<\/p>\n
Do you think you have returned a wiser man?<\/i><\/p>\n
Perhaps<\/i><\/p>\n
You should have never left our village<\/i><\/p>\n
I know<\/i><\/p>\n
It is and always has been the centre of our univ<\/i>erse Alfred<\/em><\/p>\n I realised that as soon as they locked me away<\/em><\/p>\n But by then it was too late for me to change things<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n From Lost in Russia by Alfred Jenkins (1975)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was lost in Russia for a while you know I said as I walked across the flat chalk fields near the Kingsdown cliffs My sisters Una and Muriel were with me I had not seen either of them for twenty-five years Prior to my release The huge white cliffs had not aged But we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9298,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}