Toni the Maldive Lady
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My Flying Diary

An alternative or, hopefully, complementary lecture to my Talk on the MALDIVE ISLANDS deals with my eight years world-wide travel as an airline stewardess. I could well term the talk "Fasten your seat belts we are off round the world in forty minutes".
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I start from the beginning - from those eight arduous weeks of Training School and the narration proceeds with many stopovers to my final Touch Down and marriage.
A good stewardess must be a combination of mother, cook, nurse, confidante, comforter and teacher. My miscellany is rich in recollections. The care of mothers and young children, unending babies bottles to mix up, the "Lollypop Specials" or unaccompanied children.

Horrors such as Robert Terrible, aged nine, with his live mouse and wild pillow fights in the middle of the night on the plane. The cranks. The "not understood by wife" business men. The bewildered grannies. The petrified first time flyers. The diplomats, film stars and foreign potentates. All colour and creeds. The food from cocktails to curries to kosher. The currencies. The languages, from Swahili to Spanish. And places, from Sydney to San Francisco, from Tokyo to Rio.
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This is a real peep behind the scenes of what goes on. Inaugural flights to demonstrate new aircraft. A first round-the-world Pacific flight.
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The freezing winter conditions of Canada. The almost unendurable heat of Africa. Luxury bunks. Bunched by bones. Silver service. Plastic plates. Bridge, backgammon, bedtime stories! Sick and elderly, hale and hearty. Young and old. And for stewardesses from five-star hotels to simple rest houses. Off duty frolics!
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I was skiing high up in the Mountains,  it's me water skiing in the afternoon.
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This large Hotel was where all the rich & glamorous came to during the UK winter.
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A fund of stories and incidents, ending with the ultimate desire of all 'flying girls' A ROYAL FLIGHT.
This one with a slight difference! Call Me!
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In AUSTRALIA, what a time!

The Maldive Islands


Ariyadhoo, Himithi, Mini Mas,
Gali & Maamigili
Fuah Mulaku

GAAFU ALIFU ATOLL SCHOOL
Gan and Feydhoo
Hanimadhoo & Uteemu
Ihuru
Kuramathi
Kurumba
Laamu  Atoll
Lhaviyani
Niyama - Dhaalu Atoll
Rashdoo & Noonu Atoll
Villingili

Holiday Of A Life Time:
Maldives, Sri Lanka & Dubai

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SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION - LETTER FROM BENEDICTA

MY ISLAND STORY

On My Way To Happy Days

Passenger Flying Log Book

My Very Good Looking Father

Through a Zanzibar Doorway

Lion Sands

Cape Town

A Night At The London Zoo

Wild Reef Child

Ashley

Flying With Hunting Clan

Love At First Sight

The Queen Mother

Romy Has a Surprise!

GEORGE

My Talk 2018

My Flying Diary

The Maldive Lady, by Jo Foley

LiveWire: First Lady of Leisure

Kunfunadhoo

The Lady In The Loo

First Round The World Flight

Tehran

PHINDA

Rat Story

Visha & Maya

Saint Helena

A Flight of a Lifetime

Diving Bangaram Island
Shark Circus
Richard Harley
Yusuff Moosa

I Dived To Victory
Memorable Muscat
You Must Not Wear Any Weights Or Life Jacket


A Magic Boat Launches

Angkor, Cambodia

Champneys

Country Life

Crown of Thorns

Having A Whale Of A Time

​Hurlingham Club Magazine Summer 2016

Kenya

​KASHMIR 1959

Lady Rose

Love of Skiing

My Magic Beans

My Outstanding Award
My Sandbank
Museum of Mankind
My 86th Birthday
Classic Wings: My 87th Birthday
My 88th Birthday
Magic Yellow File
RACEHORSE
Seychelles
South Africa
The Haute Route
Thrills & Spills - Dhoni Mighili
Underwater Ireland
Welcome To Stanford Bridge
***WEST OF ZANZIBAR***

Helicopter Bride
SCHOOL / FLYING
World Travel Mart
My Adopted Maldivian Family
Life Threatening Thalassemia
Himmafushi - The Young Offenders
Villingilli Orphanage
The Tsunami
Commemorative Coins

1986 Commonwealth Games
Guest Speaker of the Canberra
My Cocktail
Love & Marriage in Sri Lanka


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Flags
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A Maldives Symphony -
My Swan Song:

- Velassaru & Kuramathi
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Colombo

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