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With
the music business firmly behind me, apart from odd gigs with
Pants,
I went back to the spiral of dead end jobs. I met my bride to be whilst
lying on the floor of a local pub after hours. Here she is dressed as a
nun for New Year's Eve 1998, at our 70s housewarming party in December
1998 and heavily pregnant in 2004.
Beck
and I got married on May 30th 1997, after a mere five months together. Our
wedding cost £67.50 and was a truly splendid day for all involved. Long
may our marriage continue. In November 2000, whilst between offers of
proper employment, I watched too much
Casualty
and joined the Ambulance Service. By January of 2001 I was a trainee
recruit. In April 2002 I qualified as an Assistant Paramedic, which was
the term for a slightly over-qualified Ambulance Technician, but then the
title was dropped, so I became an Ambulance Technician again. The next few
years were a ceaseless struggle to get the required training to qualify as
a Paramedic, but thankfully I finally got there despite my employers. We're never as busy as
Josh, so television lied to me. However, Casualty remains one of
television's finest comedies. Pants reformed after a three year absence in
time to irritate people in the build up to Christmas 2003, but despite
recording an album which was never released, interest went into decline
in 2007. Beck and I overcame our seven year
struggle to start a family on the 7th August 2004 when our daughter Josie was
born, and the arrival of Kate two years later meant that I could forget
all about buying a
Caterham
7 forever. As for the future, I'm currently doing a degree in
Emergency Care at UWE in Bristol, keeping too many irons in the fire,
spinning plates and generally winging
things, as ever. Watch this space...but you may get bored, so come back
later instead.
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