SANDY NEIL
sneil@obantimes.co.uk
LIFE is full of strange coincidences. Kiwi Mary Parker’s uncle, John Reynolds, drowned with two others in a boating tragedy in Scotland 62 years ago, but she did not know where. All she knew, passed down from family history 18,000 miles away in New Zealand, she penned in a 100-word snippet, titled ‘A body of water I know well’.