come the time in every man's
life lady has in to settle
down get married to
someone be sorry
later good evening
YouTubers I left my employment with the
best wishes of everybody I'd found some
premises not very salubrious but
satisfactory for my needs and what's
more important quite cheap and um and
started business on my
own I think I could only have survived
again with the help of my friends
motorcycle dealers in the town um who of
course I naturally knew very well um
sent me work sometimes um either the
work they didn't find profitable or the
customers who had caused them grief or
whatever sometimes they sent the work
and I did it and I invoiced them for it
and sometimes they sent me the customers
but the the business grew and of course
as you can imagine I was very very happy
it's proud to be earning my own money
with my own uh efforts and initiative
and so we would think then of um of
making plans to get
married and of course we did at that
time my wife who I told you has done her
art uh and design degree in Leicester
had moved down to London and she was
employed in one of the fashion houses in
in London and um we we made
plans with uh some of her own savings
and a loan from my mother we managed
well we bought a house and um we married
um I think probably about 6 months or so
after I'd started in business once I had
um made sure that I was a capable of
earning a living to supporters um we
married we were very blessed that our
first child a daughter was born about a
year later and doubly blessed that us
our son was born one and a half years
later so they grew up very close
together which I think is very nice in a
family and oh my wife blossomed as a
mother um it was her whole life her
children were her whole life and um she
had fulfilled one of her
dreams and
um business is business the it was hard
work um long hours a lot of
stress um but it went quite well until
well and one day an accountant told me
that one of his uh business friends uh
in Leicester wanted to retire and sell a
motorcycle accessories business um and
was I interested well it was a hell of a
gamble but having seen the turnover
figures and the profit margins it was
something that couldn't be refused so um
I bought it and I now had two
businesses uh double the work double the
worry but more income
and as a result we were able to move
from our semi- detached house that we'
bought which my wife really never liked
although she never complained and we
found a property in the country um which
had a Village School it was near to a
town that had um a comprehensive school
with a good reputation and uh we thought
our children could grow up there uh
happily
um uh it wasn't a very palacial place in
fact it had no no public drainage or
public water supply the water came from
a well which had to be pumped up either
manually or with an electric pump into
the tank in the roof and feed the system
um it didn't always work but uh we we
had a water supply and we didn't choose
to change that because the W quality of
the water was unbelievable it was almost
like drinking
wine and so we were very happy there but
in order to um complete the uh story
about
family um
about 10 years after that we thought we
would like another addition to the
family my wife was by that time too old
to be safely in the childbearing U
category and so we we fostered a a
little
boy um he was um four years old living
in an
institution and we felt that um he could
develop better in a family there was a
need and so we did it
um he un well not unfortunately CU
obviously this was known to us at the
time he suffered from a handicap with a
long medical name that I couldn't
possibly uh pronounce but it meant that
bits of him didn't work very well uh
mainly in one one foot and one leg and
both of his hands that you you know is
unfortunate but not you know
life-threatening but the other main
problem was that he's totally deaf and
whilst totally deaf people can learn to
speak while we were fostering him we
weren't really in control of um what was
going to happen to him he was under the
aices of the local Authority and so they
had command of what would be done with
him and in retrospect it's a shame that
he was not able to be taught to speak um
but now he is a man of 40 I think I
don't know he's coming to stay with me
next month um and we communicate by
various ways of sign language and hand
signals and what have you um and he's a
very loving sort of person um
and uh we're very proud of him he lives
independently he holds down a job and he
actually works a computer he goes on to
MSN and types away things um he's he's a
great um um well credit to himself um
but glasses on again um oh seven not too
bad
um
oh sorry about
that I have the radio going on in my
house all the time so that obviously I
can keep up with whatever news is
happening in the world but it's a
usually a music program and I just
caught a snatch of my favorite pop song
at the moment um I love it and they're
pushing it like mad just at the moment
and it's um trouble by Ray La Fontaine
or something like that so I'm I'm very
sorry that was rather rude of me um so
life was good it was going on we' got
our family of three and uh we were
earning I was earning money my wife was
happy and we had 40 Years of of great um
of a very very good marriage and um and
she died about well not about she died 9
years ago now but I think our marriage
survived because um and perhaps you
won't believe it but she I we had a
great sense of humor and and seems to me
looking back that the whole marriage was
uh just one big U one big laugh you know
um anyway unfortunately although the
businesses were going well it all went
belly up or pear shaped or whatever the
expression is um when I was struck
stricken struck down in the prime of
Youth as they say with a um with a liver
complaint which is very very
debilitating and um people take many
years to recover from it and certainly
to um many weeks and months to get
enough energy to actually you know do
anything
so uh I sold now didn't sell it um I
closed one business down recovered money
from the stock and uh things and the
other business which was very profitable
was under good management by people who
I trusted and
so I didn't really have to go to work
anymore but uh that can be something for
the next episode because I'm almost up
to my limit
and so thank you for watching
goodbye