Publisher's Synopsis
What links a stolen pig, a ghost in the kitchen, a striped Italian suit, and a killer chipolata? Why, it's Dixie Dean of the RAF...
This non-fiction memoir tells the story of a disillusioned young man who, unable to fulfill his potential as a dancer, decides to join the RAF Boy Entrant Scheme in the mid '50s as a trainee cook. It's the tale of an ordinary, often rebellious, but caring young man who blunders from disaster to disaster in the days of National Service as a cook on an RAF station in Middle England, told in the first person; a rollicking, irreverent depiction of life from sixty years ago. There is plenty of bawdy humour, with sexual encounters never far away, and authority, of course, is snubbed at every possible opportunity. An interesting insight into life on an RAF station in the '50s that goes beyond station life and ventures into the private turmoil encountered by those who stepped up to support their country. Join Dixie as he ventures from continent to continent, country to country and ultimately from fecklessness to faithfulness.
