To an old man of seventy like meseventeen years is not such along time.So when I steppedout of Heathrow airport~1 after anabsence of seventeen years,I didn’t haveany strange feeling as I had in 1979 when Ifirst revisited England after an absence ofnearly thirty years.The circumstances of thetwo visits were totally different too.I had left England in 1950 as a youngman of twenty-three,and returned to visitmy mother in 1979 when I was already well To an old man of seventy like meseventeen years is not such along time.So when I steppedout of Heathrow airport ~ 1 after anabsence of seventeen years, I did not have strange strange feeling as I had in 1979 when If first revisited England after an absence ofnearly thirty years.The circumstances of thetwo visits were totally different too. I had left England in 1950 as a youngman of twenty-three, and returned to visitmy mother in 1979 when I was already well