What links St. Mary the Virgin Church, Wimbledon to Australia? Answer below.
We are lucky enough to spend part of the dark British winter in your lovely warm country, visiting our daughter and her Australian family. On the last occasion we visited, I was chatting with your editor and I heard myself say, “Maybe, I could write something for your paper? About life in suburban South London?” “Good idea,” he said. So… A marketing fellow once told me that I live in the “Waterloo Wedge”, a phrase coined to describe this mostly affluent part of SW London, whose trains terminate at London’s Waterloo Station. The “Wedge” includes leafy suburbs like Richmond, where...






