As a teenager living in South Africa’s Orange Free State in the mid-seventies – the Orange description, coined in honour of the Dutch King William of Orange, was dropped following the fall of the apartheid regime in 1994 – Vivianne Young was loving life and had no notion of returning to Scotland.
Almost half a century later that same girl, now Vivianne Brown, is still loving loving life – in the Solway climes of sunny Palnackie.
Technically, Vivianne is supposed to be retired from teaching but still gets called upon from time to time to lend her expertise in the classroom.
