Writing a memoir is a personal and somewhat intrusive exercise; it can be a duty, it can be a compulsion. Premonition falls+ into the latter category and even now I have to ask why. Having spent much of my life entertaining the thought, my natural inclination always was to turn away. I'm a horse vet, not a writer. But there we are.Certain inclusions were critical. The silver spoon in Derrygarron which, though I was tiny then, still sits like a beacon...