Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
The bathing suits they had me wear on Baywatch were all one-pieces, which kill my figure.