Ed, Karen, Martyn & Christine live in Sandhurst, Berkshire, England. This is between Camberley and Bracknell and about 40 miles south west of London.
Ed works as an Information Technology Manager for Capital International Ltd. - a large California based Investment Management company. Based near Victoria in London he commutes the 40 miles to work on the train each day. Outside work and family my primary interests are Sailing, computers and Genealogy.
Karen works at Sandhurst School, the local Secondary School as a Modern Languages Teacher having qualified through the Graduate Teacher Programme. Outside work and home her primary interest is Hockey (Field Hockey to our American cousins). She is a qualified level 2 umpire and in the season travels all over the south of England umpiring Women's Southern County hockey games.
Martyn is 22 has just graduated from the University of Bath with a B.Sc. (Hons) IIi in Politics with Economics. He is participating in the Teach First programme teaching at Rosedale College, a secondary school in Hayes, West London. He lives in Ealing and is very musical and sporty and is quite capable of telling you about himself and his interests. Like most recent ex students he has a particular skill in drinking and probably knows more drinking games than anybody in the country!
Christine is 21 and in her her final year studying Sports Studies and Psychology at the University of Winchester. She is big into Netball and various other things she can tell you about here.
Each year at Christmas we publish EsseryGRAM - a record of events and news over the previous year. They tell as much about us, out interests and how they have developed over the years as anything. Take a look.
Karen and Ed have a mid-life crisis - a red Mazda MX-5 (or Miata) - the best car we ever owned! To see more visit www.miata.net. For practical purposes we also have a Volvo V70 estate. Our new boat and passion is a 34 foor Hanse 342 called Scorpio. We hope that she will take us far and wide in due course. After five years of ownership, we recently sold SKYBIRD our 27'6" MG Contessa 27 yacht - she replaced ffröhlich - our classic 20 foot Flying Fifteen day racing keelboat we owned from May 1995 to March 2001.
Updated: December 2006
