Bastille Day
Today is Bastille Day. Bastille Day is a little different in the Stevenson house and has a meaning far closer to home than the storming of a Parisian gaol back in 1789. It was on this day in 1970 I arrived home for the first time. The arrival of a new baby into any house is special but this was a little different. I had been born six weeks earlier at the start of June. The reason behind the delay? Well I was one of the last generation, at least in the west, that was adopted a