![]() ![]() The latest of these has been to write “Copse and Codgers” about two octogenarian, retired sailors. John is now in his eighties and, supposedly, retired in Arundel, UK, although his new wife, Shirley, says he is usually tinkering with several projects at any one time. Later, when Shirley had passed away, he wrote this material up as his first book, “Caring for Shirley”. ![]() He recorded these in letters to his GP, because he thought that Doctors generally have sad lives as a result of meeting so many sick people every day. The following eight years were challenging, but he coped by observing the humorous side of the events that made up their lives. He became Dean of a Faculty, but took early retirement, as an Emeritus Professor, to care full-time for his wife Shirley, who was suffering from Dementia. ![]() He then “swallowed the anchor” and, as he puts it, degenerated into an academic. John Frederick Kemp was a sailor for ten years in UK merchant ships. ![]()
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