TENBY exile Liz Jones writes from Australia: "I have just been reading Avis Nixon's book 'A Tenby Lifeboat Family' and found it so nostalgic, but also very humorous, in fact it took me ages to read it as it was so enthralling, and took me back a few years into my childhood when I lived in Tenby.

"I have been living in Australia for the last 32 years, but love to keep in touch as to what is happening in my dear old town of Tenby. My uncle, Bing Jones, used to do the harbour boats to Caldey. My Dad, who is now deceased, was Dennis Jones and my aunts Dot and Diana, uncles John (Boney) and Kenny.

Tenby exile Tony Dickinson (brother of Tenby Observer editor Neil Dickinson) was best man at my wedding when I was then married to Ken Crockford, Donny Crockford's son. Donny being Ivor Crockford's brother. But I am now divorced from Ken and remarried, so am now Liz Gurnick.

"I still keep in touch with Tony on a very regular basis; we are both Tenby born and bred, and nobody can take that away from us. I think that we both love Australia, but worship our home town Tenby, the most beautiful place in the world. I live in Brisbane, Queensland, Tony lives near Melbourne, Victoria, exactly one thousand miles away from me."

Avis Nixon reports: "With the publication of my new book 'Tenby Lifeboat in Victorian Times', I am finding a renewed interest in my previous book, 'A Tenby Lifeboat Family'; with bookings for my Tenby RNLI fund-raising talks being taken up to July of next year."

'Tenby Lifeboat in Victorian Times' and 'A Tenby Lifeboat Family' are available from outlets throughout Pembrokeshire, including in Tenby the souvenir shop at the Lifeboat Station and the Cofion Bookshop (opposite the Tudor Merchant's House).