I was born in Holland in 1930 and came to Australia in 1952.
I worked as an architect and consultant in the building industry
until I retired in 1995.
I now work [with great difficulty at times] as a
watercolour painter. I have been married to Joan for over 50
years.
We have 3 children and 5 grand children. Number 5 was the
arrival of Mark the little Budda
My full name is Gerrit Nicolaas Hartland but my friends call
me Gerry. My father was the last of 5 generations of fishermen
who lived in the village of Koedijk in West Friesland where I
was also born. it is interesting in a boring way that my grand
father and his father on my father's side and my grand father
and his father on my mother's side were also fishermen.
It is no wonder that in eating flat fish I can eat the fish
without turning it over on the plate by removing the bones. It
must be in the genes
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