Pengarang: Simon Watt

From Britain during the Blitz, boarding school from age 5 and the hardship of a peripatetic lifestyle in a military family Simon Watt grew up knowing that all he ever wanted to do was become a pilot. But fate took a hand and he was to spend his whole working life on tea and coffee plantations. The first 15 years of his working life, from 1960 to 1975, was spent as an assistant, then Estate Manager in the tea growing areas of East Pakistan. He was there through all the turbulent times associated with the Indo-Pakistan wars from which the modern day country of Bangladesh would emerge. Subsequently, circumstances decreed that he leave the Indian subcontinent and he moved to Africa. First to Malawi as a Field Manager on a tea estate, then 4 years later, when his work permit was due to expire, to Zimbabwe as a General Manager on a tea and coffee estate in the east of the country. He was to spend 18 years in Zimbabwe. The last 10 years as a Manager on a coffee estate right on the border with Mozambique. Finally deciding to retire, he immigrated to Western Australia, with his Australian wife, Sandra where they now live quietly near the beach south of Fremantle.