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We have lived together for more than 50 years, so I can say, with a reasonably accurate statement, that we are suited to each other!
We started to live together in about 1970 while I was living in Upper Street in Islington, and we started to sleep together, but we didn’t get married until much later, to the disgust of our landlord then, who claimed that it would ruin our relationship – it didn’t! We worked in Interaction then, which was a group of people with an idea of Ed Burman, an American who looked just like Frank Zappa and behaved much like him too! For some info about Interaction, please follow this link. http://www.unfinishedhistories.com/history/companies/inter-action/
We worked in Interaction for about a year, I with theatre technique (we ran a number of theatres) and Lotty worked at office work. One desperately depressing work which we did, was to work in a remand home, which was supposed to be a “model” of good practice. But in fact it was truly awful! For a minor disobedience kids were locked up for 24 hours! And loads of kids were there who hadn’t committed any crimes, but simply were too much for the youth work people to handle. A terribly depressing place to work in! So I didn’t work in it for long! Others did, more strength to their elbows.
After this, I was Production Manager at the Roundhouse and Lotty worked in schools – as a teacher. A lot of what we did was based on our plans to head for Australia – to which end we bought a yacht in Spain (which a friend had told me about), and Lotty sailed it to England, and I drove home, the intention was to sail it to Australia but we ran into storms on sailing off to Australia, so we ended up in Holland, which we enjoyed and in which we had Jake (our son), who was diagnosed with internal problems, so we found that we would have to stay inc Holland for the immediate future. So we sold Mjojo, our sailing boat, and bought a commercial barge, the 120 ton Luxe Motor which we lived on for the next 24 years, only selling it when we moved to France….. More about this later.
We have lived in a number of countries together…. England, Holland, France, (Lotty lived in Switzerland) Angola, China, The Philippines, Malaysia, and finally, Australia! So, all in all, we have lived all over the world, and had fun in all of those countries.
And we are still happily together!
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