meeting old acquaintance

I was a psychiatric student nurse in Salisbury Wilts from 1980-83. In 1982 a Scottish general student nurse called George came onto the ward where I was working to do his psychiatric secondment staying there for 6 weeks. I was his mentor but had no contact with him after he left the unit and neither did I hear anything about him. I later married and moved to a remote area of North-East Scotland. In August 1989 my son came up to visit and we were due to go to Aberdeen but my husband was not very well so instead my son & I decided to go for a drive round. We passed the Battlefield of Culloden and my son thought it would be good to have a look around the site - so we wandered around. Later he wanted the loo but was such a very long time there that I ended up waiting impatiently outside the gents toilet for him and out came George. It was a huge coincidence as George had moved to Australia in 1985 and had met a girl whom he wanted to marry and he had brought her over to Scotland to meet the relatives in Falkirk and to decide if he wanted to take out Australian citizenship. The trip to Culloden was a last minute visit for him as a proposed trip to an aunt in the area had fallen through. He was due to return to Australia two days later. We had coffee together and that ended our contact.