| Rosemary and Eric Morris eMail: rambler@rambler.screaming.net Map: Brentwood, Essex, England Tour: Brentwood ... Tourism |
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| Rosemary and Eric Morris eMail: rambler@rambler.screaming.net Map: Brentwood, Essex, England Tour: Brentwood ... Tourism |
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I am a retired University Biochemistry Technician and in a second marriage of ten years. I have three children, two step children, one grandson and four step granddaughters.
Eric, my husband, and I moved three years ago from a house with a large garden to a very nice modern flat with super shared garden which is maintained for us. We love it and feel we've done the right thing in moving before the old place which we loved got more than we could manage. We only moved half a mile or so and thus still have the same friends and social life at hand.
To keep the grey matter in reasonable fettle I do crosswords and play bridge. I like cooking and entertaining. I am a recent member of U3A. I used to lead groups of people on five or ten mile walks in the Essex countryside, as a member of the Ramblers Association but haven't done much lately.
I'm generally quite fit I suppose but getting more odd aches and pains as time goes on. I do have to watch the weight as we both love food and have studied wine appreciation to a fine art!!!
Computing is another weakness, of course. I admit I spend more time and money on it than I should, having recently bought a new PC with a nice large 19 inch monitor. I use Agent for newsgroups and mail and MS Explorer for www. Like several other people have admitted I can be a sucker for new software and as someone said if it ain't broke why fix it? I think I ought to be made to write that out 100 times after school to see if I can remember it.
Eric is active in Rotary, chairman of the League of Friends of our local hospital & secretary of a very active local Horticultural Society. He grows dahlias and has taken an allotment to keep his hand in. He never used a computer before he married me and now does all his word processing and thinks it's marvellous he doesn't have to use Tippex. He does need me close by as I often get an exasperated call "WHY IS IT DOING THAT!!!!"
We travelled extensively between 1992 when we spent three months going round the world and 1994 when we spent seven weeks travelling across Canada and up to Alaska. Not by luxury cruise liner but organised it all ourselves and roughed it on the ferries. Wonderful. In 1998 we spent 9 weeks travelling in the eastern US from Boston to Florida with a side trip into Texas.
In the spring of 2000 we spent 6 weeks in the US again. Three weeks in Florida, followed by a week in Texas and then finishing in Colorado. In these latter two we were hosted by fellow Elders. It has been our privilege to have met many Elders on their own patches and on ours.