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Eric - August 2005
Eric Anthony Eales 08/2005

 
Bio:

born: February 1949, Halifax NS, raised: south-east London, now living: Kelowna BC

education: B.Ed. Keele University

jobs: accountant (failed) teacher (burned out) entrepreneur (successful) writer (dilettante)

interests: playing bridge (intuitively) watching baseball (poetry in motion) fishing (watching the world float by) wheelchair curling - it rocks
very important people
:Roger Bevan, best friend for life
Gary Brickman, a force of nature
Lady Audrey Percival, osteopath,
who warned against unnecessary exercise

8 major life events:

polio (as an infant 1950)
boarding school (brutal Lord Mayor Treloar College 1961-64)
getting my first wheels (1965 - see From 4 Wheels To 3 )
abandoning accountancy (1971 - the last vestige of the life others wanted for me)
fleeing Thatcherite Britain (1980)
developing The Original Eales ReCorker (1981)
birth of my son, Eric (1986)
marrying Cate in Kelowna (2001)
 

least pleasant person I have ever met:
Brian Farminer, late Principal of Aylestone High School

favorite book that nobody's read:
 Down All The Days - Christy Brown

all-time favorite single:
River Deep, Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner

field of dreams:
Crystal Palace Football Club

unforgiven lie my father told me:
you'll never lose your hair, you don't worry enough

life's ambition:
to earn a living without having to get up at any particular time

if I had my life over:
I would take Latin, not General Science
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