After leaving TGS and worked as a Laboratory
Assistant for a number of companies in the Tottenham area, finding my level of
incompetence in each. I also satisfied a boyhood ambition to work as a Bus
Conductor for the then London Transport.
In 1967, inspired by the scenes of sunshine,
beaches and scantily-clad ladies on Bondi Beach in a film called
"They're a Weird Mob", I emigrated to Sydney, where I found that
whilst the attractions in the film were as claimed, the
preponderance of flies somehow escaped mention.
Nevertheless I loaded up with insect
repellent, and persevered, first as a Booking Clerk on the Railways, and then
as Technical Assistant, and then Chief Chemist at the Shell Refinery in
Sydney, after graduating at the NSW Institute of Technology. In 1968 I married
a lovely American lady called Carolynn, and decided that despite the flies,
high humidity and excessive temperatures, Australia is a great place to live,
and that England is great place to come from..
I am now widowed, with an Australian-born
daughter who lives in Anchorage, Alaska, and work with intellectually
handicapped people in a Group Home