The Diplomatic Dog of Barbados ebook | Winfred Peppinck

He was just a baby. His mother had taught him to fear but not how to survive. Now he was orphaned and alone. In addition, he had to learn quickly or he would meet the same fate as his mother and his siblings. However, his way of surviving was almost his undoing. What would become of this lonely, starving pup? How would he manage to survive as an outcast of society the island lowlife, spurned and cruelly treated? The Diplomatic Dog of Barbados is an uplifting, entrancing story told from the point of view of a homeless Barbados "Cane dog" (or mongrel, as we know them) who "made good" and became part of the island highlife. From junkyard to jet set. A glimpse into the contrasting lifestyles within the Caribbean island of Barbados as seen through the eyes of a very special dog amid the whirl of diplomatic life. From being junkyard dog to a jetset dog, this is a story of contrasting halves –of a dog, which moves from one side of the tracks to the other and rewards his new owners with love and loyalty and the joys that come from seeing a truly happy dog wag its tail! We all like a hardluck story with a happy ending – well this is it, canine style.

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Winfred Marcel Peppinck was born in The Hague on 2 January 1946 - which makes him one of the world’s very first ‘baby boomers’ - and embarked on a life as rich in colour and variety, as his writings. After emigrating at the age of two with his parents to the Dutch East Indies, he subsequently found himself in Perth, Western Australia in 1951. After finishing high school, and following in the footsteps of his journalist father, he began his career as a ‘copyboy’ for the West Australian newspaper - a daily paper known by many as The Worst Australian because of its often jingoistic, parochial style. His love of writing was nurtured by his love for a very attractive journalist, who persuaded him to sit for mature aged entry to the University of Western Australia and after winning a scholarship, graduated in 1971, with an Honours Degree in Politics, specializing in guerrilla warfare!
Winfred began a new career path in the rarefied world of international diplomacy as a Foreign Affairs Trainee with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs in 1975. A number of international diplomatic postings ensued, including spells in Brazil, South Africa, Uganda and Indonesia, before being appointed as the Senior Adviser to three different Presidents of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 1999. After three years as Australian Ambassador to the Caribbean, he became an Advisor to the Prime Minister’s Court in Bahrain, the country which he and his wife Wendy, currently call home.

The Diplomatic Dog of Barbados ebook | Winfred Peppinck | 9781907556821

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