"My Name is Jones...George Jones" ? by Julia Jones
So there I was, rummaging in the attic, looking for something else entirely, when I discovered … (insert mystery item here). My trouvaille in the autumn of 2016 was a faded blue hardback folder holding thirty sheets of densely-typed paper with photographs every facing page and handwritten amendments. THE CRUISE OF NAROMIS: AUGUST IN THE BALTIC 1939 G.A. JONES Oh gulp, I remembered what this must be... Years ago my father, George Jones, had begun telling my brothers and me about his trip through the Kiel Canal, aged 21, in the weeks immediately before the Second World War. I also remembered my total failure to feel interested and felt ashamed. I was probably reading Leon Uris’s Exodus at that time or watching The Great Escape. When I realised there were no heroics or atrocities in Dad’s story I simply stopped listening. I assume he stopped telling us. Naromis was a 37’ motor yacht built on the Norfolk Broads...