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\"Judith Judith writes:<\/strong> We live at the bottom of the Long Mynd, Shropshire, UK in the summer and in the volcanic area of La Garrotxa in northeastern Spain, in winter.<\/p>\n

I grew up in Germany (but not in a forces family!). At 17, I left home and moved to the UK which was like a foreign country to me. I spent a few comedy filled years learning the local customs and getting used to the interesting food and flat beer. I wasted a few years at Uni doing a degree in drama, film and television studies. Being good with my hands, I then trained to be a sign language interpreter but couldn’t cut it at the chalk face so went into management. After\u00a0realising I was doing a lot of work for not much pay,\u00a0I ditched that and went freelance.<\/p>\n

I took up hang gliding in 1996, but I never really could do the landing thing, so I now spend a large chunk of my time flying, or trying to fly, paragliders. The rest of the time I go skiing, rollerblading, do archery, walk, bum around on the beach, snooze in the sun and very occasionally we do some work to fund the rock ‘n roll life style.<\/p>\n

\"Geoff<\/strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> I spent the first part of my life working with non-government organisations and the voluntary sector, working with community groups, advice and resource centres, etc., in places such as Leeds and Nottingham,\u00a0where I set up the first centre in the country which offered computing services to the voluntary sector and trade unions. At the time, this was real groundbreaking, innovative\u00a0stuff.<\/p>\n

Getting a bit burnt out, I went to be an IT lecturer for some years, during which time I managed to live and work in the US for a year; live and work\u00a0with Sandinista organisations in Nicaragua during the civil war; work in Zimbabwe and South Africa with ANC front\u00a0organisations during the fall of apartheid. At this time I set up a major UK overseas development agency, which is still going strong. Now semi-retired, except for the odd online conference which keeps the wolf from the door.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been flying hang gliders since 1990, paragliders since 2005, and have recently learnt to alpine ski after years of doing cross country skiing.<\/p>\n

I have no children, have not learnt to play golf, have never owned a caravan and will never join Facebook.<\/p>\n

[30.10.13 – I rarely go back on what I say, especially in print, but I did join FB this year. But I still don’t have kids or a caravan, or play golf. Everything else, of course, has changed….]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judith writes: We live at the bottom of the Long Mynd, Shropshire, UK in the summer and in the volcanic area of La Garrotxa in northeastern Spain, in winter. I grew up in Germany (but not in a forces family!). At 17, I left home and moved to the UK which was like a foreign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}