Make no mistake... this is fun

A favourite saying of mine is “Before the rainbow, you will have to endure the rain.”

There’s no need for me to elaborate on that – we all know what it means. We’ve probably all experienced the rainy times and I hope we’ve all been rewarded with the rainbows!



tells of some of the difficulties of life in the past – there seemed to be more rain than rainbows sometimes. Here's what life was like in parts of London in the sixties.

Half an hour later, viewing the second floor of a poorly maintained, Victorian end of terrace house, Gemma said to Liberty, “Are we sure about this?”

“The pros are: one, cheap rent; two, it’s near the station; three, the rooms are big; four...” and there Liberty stopped and giggled. “The cons are: one, there’s a hole in the floor underneath the big chair; two, the furniture is very old; three, there’s no bathroom.”

“If you ain’t got a tin bath, there’s the public baths down the road,” muttered the agent, “next to the launderette. The toilet’s downstairs, on the ground floor.”

But it wasn’t all bad. The two girls sharing the shabby flat lived in Swinging London:

What once were plain brown brick buildings were now multi-coloured towers. Directly ahead stood one with pale blue bricks on the first floor, a pink second floor and purple window frames throughout attempting to provide co-ordination, all atop a shop where the windows were decorated with rainbows and stars. A young man in a purple shirt and orange tie stepped outside with a stick-thin girl on his arm. With her dark fringe almost covering her eyes, her yellow dress short enough to have passed for a well-fitted long vest, and knee-high white boots, she captured eyes until the next vision came into view.

A man in top hat and tails played a grand piano in the road. Pink trousers and matching shirt were the only clue he was in Carnaby Street and not the Royal Albert Hall.

Let’s hope the troubles of the current times will lead to a better life for all.

Here’s what a Readers’ Favorite reviewer said about Mistake in Time:

“Overall, Mistake In Time is a fun and exciting adventure through the ages with an engaging protagonist adventuring through a vividly realized vision of the swinging 60s.”

If you feel like a break from this wild world, please take a look at Mistake in Time and enjoy hours of fun as you imagine yourself travelling through time.

Mistake in Time