Well, what do I say? We are just a normal couple. No perhaps not. I think Kevin tries desperately hard to be normal, but Karen? Lets just say she has settled for being known as a bit eccentric
The boring bit. Well were married, two kids, live in Weston super Mare (someone has to!) and Kevin goes out to work each morning. Karen goes to work too, after ferrying the kids to school, working for a company that produces Wedding Stationery.
Kevin doesnt have much time for hobbies as such, he spends most of his time at work watching paint dry no I jest, its actually ink, but takes almost as long! Most of his spare time is spent on the computer, creating this web site, entering the odd competition, playing the odd game and fixing the odd problem when Karen breaks it! When possible he travels to London to do a bit more skellington hunting for his genealogy, unfortunately having a really common name and coming from London is a bit of a hindrance! He is the Webmaster for the local family history society (see www.wsmfhs.org.uk). He enjoys cooking, makes a really mean curry (even studied Indian Cookery at evening classes). He likes watching old films, including the Carry On ones (good job Karen won a complete set of them) Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf and Star Trek. He is a keen reader of Terry Pratchett, and has the full set of his Discworld novels, and although he wouldnt be too keen to admit it, he has really enjoyed all the Harry Potter books that were bought for the children. He is a Libra and is very tolerant of his barmy wife.
Karen. This is a picture of her painting her previous car. Says it all really doesnt it? She is considered, by her eldest son to be soooooo embarassing and by her youngest son to be oh, coooool (hes 5). Kevin is witholding an opinion on the grounds he might be considered guilty by association. Her main hobby (not that she has time for many, you understand what with all the washing, ironing etc.) is entering competitions. She was the founder member of Compers Mentis (www.compersmentis.co.uk) the Weston super Mare competition club, a group who gets together to discuss comps over a coffee (yes there are such strange people around). She enjoys DIY (just as well really as Kevin detests it) reading, music (she won singing lessons and is now driving everyone mad trying to be the next Lesley Garrett, but sounding more like Morrissey) and drooling over Robbie Williams (yes alright, sad, but it used to be David Cassidy, at least shes keeping up with the times). She also is into genealogy, but being the sensible one (!) she she was born with a very unusual maiden name, so has found it relatively easy to go back in time. Finally, when she has a spare five minutes she does the odd bit of cross stitch, she is currently working on a project started in 1993 and isnt yet a quarter of the way through, so you can see, she really doesnt have a lot of spare time!