I have remarked before in here how very fortunate I account myself for having a facility with words; an innate ability to select the appropriate phrase adequately to express the emotions of any given moment. I am doubly fortunate in that this does not stem from what Edward Gibbon, in his “Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire” refers to as ‘… the labours of an attentive education …’, for I left school at the age of 14 in 1945 with but a rudimentary education; and no qualifications whatsoever. But... Sign in to see full entry.