I am living in Milton Keynes for the last twenty three years and I have seen Milton Keynes grow and I have matured with it. I was brought up in Zambia and studied in the UK and finally married and settled in Milton Keynes. I am interested to be part of the Living Archive project and I would like to narrate the story of my journey. I was born in Livingstone in Northern Rhodesia in the European hospital in 1960 and went to Livingstone primary school till 1969. Then my Dad decided it was better to be educated in India and we that is my brothers and sister we lived in Ahmadavad for a year then we moved to a place called Kalomo which was originally the first capital of Northern Rhodesia now it is Lusaka. Kalomo was more like a little village and it consisted of one street of shops and bank and butcher and bar and a hotel! Kalomo was a large farming community and it had lots of white farmers from the Great trek Dutch and English farmers. People of Muller,Elder,Van Vyke,Williams and also Middleton still reside there. I went on to go to Kalomo Secondary School which had the highest number of students from whole of the Southern Province . I came to study in the UK in 1976 and did all my studies and got married. My husband was one of the casualties of Idi Amin and they came to UK in 1972 and they landed at RAF base Yeovil and like the rest of the Asians they moved to Leicester and he studied and went to University . When we married we decided to move to Milton Keynes as it is half way between London and Leicester in 1983. KNIFE-EDGE BRIDGE BETWEEN ZAMBIA AND ZIMBABWE BORDER AT VICTORIA FALLS We moved to the famous Beanhill housing estate and intially we got our house broken into and robbed of everything including the brand new cooker. That was our first day in Milton Keynes and we thought we made a wrong choice! We saved and brought our first property in Two Mile Ash and it was plain sailing from there on. My friends refused to come to Milton Keynes and we got lots of jokes on our concrete cows and lack of entertaining facilities. Now the last laugh is on them as we have one of the best living conditions in the country and we have lots of greenary and good entertainment. Now I would not move to any other place ! I have seen the trees grow and mature, the landscape is one of the best in the whole of country. As Milton Keynes has come to age it is well known throughout the country for its Airfix skydiving, Xscape and best of all my children love the parks and playgrounds. The only gripe with Milton Keynes is that there are not enough secondary schools for the growing children and there are no grammar schools in Milton Keynes!