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| From the first year I was a very quiet and well behaved
child as we all were of course! Although technically speaking I am Chris
Lewington I have been known as Lewy all through school life, University,
and a good proportion of my life after that, although sadly now I'm back
to being Chris... |
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And by the sixth form I'd developed a healthy crop of hair
and a denim jacket which was permanently welded onto my body for a
period of about five years...in fact I still have it, although it
doesn't quite fit now! Then it was off to Manchester University for a
degree in Geography. |
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After developing my Cordon Bleu cooking skills when living
in a flat in Manchester (which I'm sure was the idea behind The Young
Ones) I turned to respectability and got my hair cut. It was a fairly
painless operation endured without anaesthetic. I started doing a PhD at
Manchester University researching into perception of landscapes but
perceived halfway through the course that it was time I got a real
job and left to try and get into travel or tourism. |
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I went
through a moustached spell shortly after leaving university for a while!
Ah now this is more like it - Mop and myself in aggressive
pose on a trip to a beer festival in Belgium. By then I was working in
Business Travel for Thomas Cook in Nottingham and hanging around with a
group of punks around 1980 or 81.
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And....then came the beard! Still working for Thomas Cook
and around the time Mop got married I favoured the bearded look. Then I
moved into Business Travel management for the AA and after managing
their branch in Nottingham I looked after their biggest branch in
Aberdeen for 3 years. It's not true that I spent time as a sheep while
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| What I did do while in Aberdeen was became hopelessly addicted to
skiing and spent every winter for the next ten years organising ski
holidays for groups of friends and converting people to the cause,
thereby ensuring that all my friends spent all their money on skiing and
were as poor as I was! |
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Next I moved to Ironbridge in Shropshire for about a year
and then off down south to work for the AA in Basingstoke moving over
into systems but still within the travel business. I got married to
Lynne and then along came Callum, seen here on his first, and my last
ski holiday! |
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So it's goodbye to skiing and hello to Music Festivals -
me with Callum at his first Cropredy Festival. First band he ever saw -
The Saw Doctors, and Fairport Convention.
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I've now retired from playing roller hockey but here is a
picture from a couple of years ago of me celebrating Canada's Olympic
ice hockey win over the USA!
I'm now systems manager for a business
travel company and seem to have become a southerner, although I'm not
quite sure how that happened!
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And hello to roller hockey - Callum is now 10
12 14 and is at senior school. He's into power kiting and now
plays bass in a band. He's obviously inherited his dad's musical taste -
loud! |
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