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Nick Stokoe
72a49ac52e unpack-whenwe-json.js -> bin/unpack-whenwe-json.js
Just to be tidy.
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Nick Stokoe
5e8be866b4 src/README.md - brief intro for this folder 2023-05-09 21:22:40 +01:00
Nick Stokoe
03b73cbae5 README.md - first draft 2023-05-09 21:22:40 +01:00
Nick Stokoe
daf10449e3 src/_config.yml - delete, unused now we use Eleventy 2023-05-09 21:09:52 +01:00
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# WhenWe
Whenwe is dead. Long love Whenwe?
A "when-we" is a nostagic reminisce. This is an archive of when-wes, currently.
However, it may grow into a database of mini-biographies. Time will tell...
## Structure
- `src/` - the website content and templates
- `bin/` - helper scripts
Everything in the top directory are configs and documentation, like this.
## Requirements
The site is built using [Eleventy][eleventy]. We assume you have Git, NodeJS and NPM installed.
## Installation for development or deployment
git clone $whenwe_repo_url
cd whenwe
npm install
## Development
npm run server
Now you should be able to visit the development site in your browser at http://localhost:8080
If you edit the content in `src/` - it should rebuild the site. Your browser should refresh automatically, but if not, refresh it manually.
See the [README.md](./src/) in `src/` for more information.
## Deployment
Currently the destination is configured in package.json, as part of the definition of the `deploy` run-script. To change the destination, change that.
`rsync` is used for deploying the site. Therefore you need to have that installed and on the path.
You will need `ssh` access to the destination. Setting that up is outside the scope of this document, but if you have your own web space, you will probably know about this already, and if not, you will need the assistance of someone who does. Setting up your ssh client depends on your OS - there are guides online.
But given that, the deploy process goes like this:
npm run build
npm run deploy
## Issues and questions
These can be submitted via the issue tracker attached to this repository. You may need to create an account.
[eleventy]: https://www.11ty.dev/

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# Source code
This is the source code for WhenWe2.
## Structre
- `_articles/` - articles go here, in files with a .md suffix. The are essentially yaml files, with a leading `---`, then two sections, delimited with another `---`. The first section is the "front matter" - essentially a list of name/value pairs (or more generally, a datastructure - as in any YAML document items can be lists, directories, and so on, possibnly nested). The second section is markdown, which is essentially text, formatted according to certain conventions, and optionally containing HTML mark-up and template directives. See the Eleventy documentation for details of this.
- `assets/` - this is copied verbatim to the destination site. It contains stylesheets and javascript, for the most part.
- `_data/` - currently just contains a definition of the default layout to use on web pages.
- `_images/` - images used in the site, liked to via articles. Copied verbatim to the site, but as the directory `images/`
- `_includes/` - templates and template fragments, which define the layouts used to build the site HTML.
- `_pages/` - non-article web pages.
- `_people/` - descriptions of people.
- `index.html` - the site's front page template.

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### 1954
## 1954
I am four and a half, we are living in a new house now, its in a place called Kisii, and I have a new best friend called Pat Sommerville. I am a bit sad though because I can't find my favourite doll, Long Leggedy Beada, or my Cubby Lion toy who sleeps in my bed with me. Mummy says they might be in the trunk that got lost when we moved, she says Daddy is trying to find out what happened to it. Then today, when I was playing in the paddling pool in the garden with Pat and my baby brother Michael, a rickety old wooden cart came into our garden, it was being pulled by two cows with great big horns. Hassani came out and talked to the man sitting on it. There was a big black trunk on the back of the cart and they carried it up to our verandah. Then Mummy came out and opened the trunk and Long Leggedy Beada was inside, so was Cubby Lion. I am very happy now.
Mummy says the trunk must have fallen into the river on its way here because my Strewel Peter book is all wet and wrinkly; she says she can mend it though, and that it will be good as new for Daddy to read it to me at bedtime. My favourite story is the one about a little fat boy who wouldn't eat his soup and got so thin that he died, and I like the one about Philip who can't sit still and pulls the table cloth off the table and everything falls on the floor.
### Nov 1955
## Nov 1955
I don't know what's wrong with my Daddy but we had to come to England so that he can go to a special hospital for an operation on his back. Me and Mummy have come to see him but I don't like this hospital, its very hot and there is a horrid smell. I have been sick in the lift and Mummy had to find a nurse to clean it up. I wanted to cry but I didn't. I hope Daddy gets better soon. Me and Mummy are staying with Auntie Elsie. I like it at her house, she has a special china tea set which she keeps just for me to make tea for my dolls. Its white with a red circle around the edge of all the plates and cups; I am very careful not to break it.
### 1957
## 1957
I loved the film 'Bambi', but it was very sad when Bambi's mummy died. I went to see it at the golf club in Nyeri with my friends Rosie and Steph. When I got home Daddy told me that I had a new baby sister. She is going to be called Katherine Ann.
I loved the film 'Bambi', but it was very sad when Bambi's mummy died. I went to see it at the golf club in Nyeri with my friends Rosie and Steph. When I got home Daddy told me that I had a new baby sister. She is going to be called Katherine Ann.

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These short films have been edited down to make for easier viewing and they need to be looked at in the context of the Kagumo story,
These short films have been edited down to make for easier viewing and they need to be looked at in the context of the Kagumo story,
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Michael Charles Geoffrey Stokoe was born on the 18th May 1954 in Beckenham, south London where his parents were home on leave from Kenya. He returned to Kenya with the family a few months later. The Stokoes were living in Kisii at that time but moved to Kagumo College, Nyeri when Mike was about 3 ..............
#### Youth and Teens
## Youth and Teens
Between 1954 and 1969 Mike was happily part and parcel of the Stokoe family's Kenya story but that came to an end when he was about 15\. He had a difficult transition from his Kenya life to being comfortably and contentedly settled in the UK where he is now.
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Mike found life at Sir James Smith's almost as difficult as Barnard Castle. He sometimes refused to get up in the morning so would miss the bus and have to walk to school - a journey of some 6 miles; once he was sent home from school for wearing the wrong colour shirt another long walk. He gained some respite when the family returned to Kenya for a holiday in the summer of 1971, remaining in Kenya with his Dad while the others returned to the UK.
#### The Big Adventure
## The Big Adventure
During 1971/2 Mike spent a year at Kericho with Stan doing a correspondence course in Maths. Stan also managed to fix him a temporary job with Root and Leakey (photographic) Safaris. Even back in the 70's the safari business was changing from hunting and killing animals to photographing them. This was a dream job for Mike as he had always wanted to be a Game Warden / Park Ranger; he loved wildlife and trips to the game parks and spent much of his childhood studying animal 'spoor' drawing animal footprints and 'dung'.
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Sometimes the guests went out on foot to get their animal photographs and Mike was responsible for leading foot safaris through Tsavo National Park: quite a responsibility considering the wild animals they would have encountered, these days they would be accompanied by an Askari with a gun! Mike kept his guests safe but scarily one day he got a bit lost. He didn't let on to anyone in the group, instead - with great presence of mind, he walked them towards the Tsavo River, from where he could follow the river back to the camp site. The river was highlighted by the line of bright green trees along its bank while the rest of the countryside was brown scrub, dotted with a few straggly thorn trees. When they eventually reached the river the safari guests were so hot and tired that they threw themselves into the water, ignorant of the fact that they might be disturbing the crocodiles! Fortunately the crocs were also hot and tired, and asleep further down stream and the party returned to camp unscathed.
#### Cornwall
## Cornwall
Sadly this adventurous lifestyle could not last and Mike returned to Cornwall later in 1972\. Now 18 he signed up for a photography course at Plymouth College of Art, staying in student accommodation and returning home to Hengar for holidays. In reality Mike was not suited to an academic career: during the summer holiday from college he got a job at De Lank Quarry in St Breward, just a couple of miles from home. The work involved cutting and polishing large slabs of granite using water jets; the finished granite pieces were (and still are) used as part of the external fascia of banks and posh shops.
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Linda was a raven haired Cornish girl who was brought up on St Michaels Mount where her father worked for Lord St Leven as a boatman. He drove a boat (an aqua craft) known as “the Duck” across Mounts Bay to Penzance on a daily basis - when the tide was in the Duck was a boat and when the tide was out it became a land vehicle. When they first met Linda was living on the mainland and had a flat in Mousehole - about 50 miles from to St Tudy. They moved in together quite quickly and were married in St Tudy Parish Church in 1973/4\.
#### Up North
## Up North
Not long after the wedding Mike was lured northwards again, this time for a house and a career. Stokoe Brothers garage in Loftus, North Yorkshire, was a family business; it was created and managed by Charlie Stokoe with his brother Stan as a silent partner. When Charlie died suddenly in 1972 Stan was still living in Kenya and not in a position to take over the business so he promoted Trevor Harding, Charlie's mechanic and right hand man, to be manager. Stan's family agreed that Mike and Linda could live in Charlie's house and Mike undertook to train as a mechanic on day release and to work in the business with Trevor.
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While working at the garage in Loftus, which is next door to the Police station, the now divorced Mike became friends with the young police sargeant and his wife Christine. As sometimes happens between friends, Mike and Christine fell in love .......... and they eventually married in 1979\. Mike left the garage and went to work in the Cleveland Potash mine where he remained for over 20 years.
#### At Home in the North
## At Home in the North
Mike and Christine have now been happily married for 40 years, their Ruby wedding celebrated in 2019\. They actually celebrated ther 25th wedding anniversary in Cyprus, at the same time and place as Mike's Dad - Stan marked his 80th birthday: an opportunity for two great parties in the sunshine. In 2004 Mike and Christine were living in Cyprus having fallen in love with the place on a visit with Stan and Wendy (who spent their winters there). Mike and Christine lived there for 5 years and had a pool cleaning business, before finally moving back to Teeside in about 2007; mainly for health reasons, but they hope to retire back to Cyprus in 2020.
As well as a 40 year marriage Mike and Christine also have 2 sons - Jonathan who is now 40 and Daniel 35\. Christine originally hails from Carlisle and Mike is now a naturalised 'Northerner' having lived the last 40+years in Teeside, moving between Loftus and Saltburn by Sea where they are currently living.
As well as a 40 year marriage Mike and Christine also have 2 sons - Jonathan who is now 40 and Daniel 35\. Christine originally hails from Carlisle and Mike is now a naturalised 'Northerner' having lived the last 40+years in Teeside, moving between Loftus and Saltburn by Sea where they are currently living.

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#### Other Families / friends
## Other Families / friends
I have a vague mental map of the College layout which I have tried to draw (see pic), showing where my friends families lived, its probably wildly out!! Its also quite difficult to describe but here goes: the northernmost area of the college was the main sports field and next to that was the farm. Below that was a row of about 6-8 houses; the Curtises Arnold and Daphne plus daughters Steph and Jill, and the Cawleys John and Molly with daughter Jane, lived here both families moved away early on, to Limuru and Nairobi respectively, but we all kept in touch. I think the Velzians lived here as well. They had a proper full sized trampoline in their garden, which we all loved bouncing on! Dad, John, was the PE teacher and later became the National Coach to Kenya's athletes, starting with Kipchoge Kieno - the first of Kenya's phenomenal medal winning long distance runners. His wife Jo worked as a secretary in the Principals office. I remember her for her 'killer heels' and for teaching me to do the Twist!! They had a son Guy and a much younger daughter Kim.
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Continuing south from the Melhuishes there was another sports field opposite which was another row of houses and families (I am not sure of the right order) : - the Penns Ken and Shona plus their children Caroline, Sarah and James; the Clarks Pat and Jane with children Adam and Amanda; the Martins Ken and Margaret with children Hilary and Dominic: Margaret was famous for her curries, eaten out in the garden and I especially loved all the 'bits and pieces' such as chopped up banana, oranges, onion, tomatoes, grated coconut etc which we sprinkled over the curry; the Shanks Philip and Eileen with children Ben and Lulu (Lyndall); the Jacksons - ? and Nora with their children Moira and Paul. A bit further down the road, in a house on its own, lived Peter King. I was afraid to go to his house as his dog bit me once (not seriously). Our house was also on its own, on the other side of the road from Peter. To the east and behind the staff houses was a wooded area leading to the classrooms and offices, the squash court was here as well. There were lots of younger children in the Kagumo community, similar ages to my brother and sister, so they also had lots of friends, not all of which were long lasting.
#### Best Friends
## Best Friends
I made lasting friendships at Kagumo, friends I am still in contact with in particular Rosie Melhuish and Steph Curtis. (I even reconnected with Moira Jackson through Facebook at we met up near 60 years on and had a great Kagumo When-we). When the Cutises moved to Limuru I often went to stay; Steph, Jill and I always had fun. I remember getting wheezy after pillow fights, swimming in the dam, going on long walks with their dogs 3 Rhodesian Ridgebacks, collecting mushrooms on the golf course early in the morning: the tastiest and juiciest mushrooms ever. We also had midnight feasts and once we tried to melt a 'Sugar Daddy' (a toffee lollipop) over a candle. There were also exchange visits to my house but somehow not so memorable. Later Steph went to Limuru Girls School but Rosie Melhuish and I both went to Kenya High which is how we remained friends; we might have been in the same class but were in different boarding houses and she was athletic while I definitely wasnt. (Kenya High School has its own story).
#### New Arrivals
## New Arrivals
As with any community families come and go and Kagumo was no different. Around 1961 our cousins, the Smithes, came over from Englad to live with us Paula was about 8 and Martin was about 6; their Mum, Irene, was my Mum's sister. I remember them arriving and putting up a tent in our front garden, with their Dad Gordon and their Granny as well they had had a marathon journey across Europe and from South Africa to Kenya. Gorson and his mother went back to Englad, visiting us at the coast a few years on but Irene, Paula and Martin stayed and shared our life in Kagumo for a couple of years; Irene even got a job teaching in a local school.
At about the same, a Canadian teacher called Bob Moffat, joined the Kagumo College staff bringing his family with him. The Moffats had 3 children - Janet, Robbie and Cathy who were almost exactly the same ages as me, Mike and Kathy respectively and we all became best friends and and spent many holidays and adventures together. Janet and I both went to Nyeri primary and although they returned to Canada after about 4 years I have kept in touch with Janet and visited her in Canada in 2000\. Another Canadian family, the Gillespie's, arrived in Kagumo around 1961/2, just before we left. I was very friendly with Clare and Brenda as they were both pupils at Kenya High School with me. (I lost contact with them when we moved - but recently re-connected through Facebook and visited with Clare in Portugal in 2019).
#### n and around Nyeri town
## In and around Nyeri town
Although life was full at Kagumo there was a whole other array of things to do outside of in - both in and around Nyeri.
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Once, after a very bad rainy season the Sagana River near Nyeri was flooded and Dad took us out in the car to watch the surging torrents of brown water swirling under, and over, fragile wooden bridges. One of the bridges got washed away just after we had driven over it. We also travelled further afield: visits to friends in Nairobi, safaris to game parks and regularly to the Kenya coast but these stories have got separate sections of their own
#### Leaving
## Leaving
In 1962 the family went home to the UK on leave and when we came back Dad had got a new posting to Kericho, a promotion to principal at the teacher training college there. As well as moving I started secondary school - as a boarder to Kenya High School in Nairobi, and my brother and sister started at Greensteds in Nakuru. I never went back to Nyeri again.
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CAve waterfall cine
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Outspan video?
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- Cave waterfall cine
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Looking this picture and the one of me aged 13, I think about the 6 intervening years. Its like 2 sides of a coin. On one side I am a 'well rounded individual', I have 8 GCSEs and will soon have 3 'A' levels. I can swim, dive, play hockey, netball and tennis (although not well). I have developed friendships that will last me a lifetime and have the whole world at my feet. On the other side I am still shy and lacking in confidence; I was always just average at school, never top of the class, never picked for the house games teams, never developing any special talent. My name never appeared in the school magazine as having written a clever poem or interesting story or having received a school prize or heading up any of the myriad of clubs and societies, or taking a starring role in the school play. And within a year of leaving school I was pregnant but that's another story.
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