Email:   Chris

Hi everyone.  

                      Welcome to my web site.

        As you will see I have numerous interests.

  Please visit those pages that you think will be of most interest to you.

           Please let me have feed back on anything you wish, whether it is to, let me know of errors or inaccuracies, or if I have used pictures that are copyright and need permission (If permission can not be obtained I will remove any such work).

           This is my third attempt to make a web site.   It is considerably more ambitious than my first feeble, unfinished site.  I hope to be able to finish this one.

           My original idea was just to do the one about the NRPS.   As I wanted to write a book about that great little club that I started and ran for 7 years, and it kept going for another 7 years, after I became too old!  It was for under 21’s only!   The Web site was to hopefully find some of the 100 Plus ex members and get remembrances from them to help fill out the book.   I still hope it will do that.

The  bulk of the NRPS  stuff is now in its own Yahoo group. See link  on page 2.

  Now a little about me  (Just what you wanted to know!)

   When in the seventh month, of the 1939th revolution of the Earth around the Sun, after the supposed time of the birth of Jesus, on the 23rd day,   my Mother gave birth to me, her first live birth, it was almost the beginning of the next day.  This was a troubled year, for only a few weeks later the second world war broke out.

   Up till then my mother had had several miscarriages, and it was being recommended, by a doctor, whose views were considered odd or cranky in those days, that my parents become vegetarian.  This change has resulted in  a 65+ years chain of events, that would never have taken place had they had not taken his advice. 

   So I, Christopher John Phillips, was brought up vegetarian.  I have never regretted this fact.   Although my parents became vegetarians for purely health reasons I changed as I grew up and became a strict vegetarian, called a Vegan. At the end of 2001, I went one step better, eating mainly raw food, and as a result my health improved to the best I can remember.

    These 20 or so pages represent a great deal of my life in a variety of different ways.  I have many interests, not all of which will be mentioned here.

    My father was a school teacher, Maths, at The Skinners’ School  (grammar school) in (Royal) Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.   My mother  was a trained masseuse, but was a full time housewife all her married life.   I followed in both of their footsteps, in a way.   I became a maths teacher after graduating BSc as an external student of London University at Medway College of Technology in Chatham Kent, followed by a year at Swansea University for my Dip. Ed.   I taught in a succession of schools Edlington Comprehensive (near Doncaster); Weir Hall/Aylward school (Enfield Boro’), Bicester School (Oxon), Boston Grammar (Lincs, the original Boston!) and Claremont Fan Court School, Esher (Surrey).  Then I became a salesman, first of all failing in insurance selling, then graduating to books and eventually   educational books.  In July 1999 I semi-retired and worked part time for the next 5 years. Since July 2004 I have been fully retired. Now this gives me the time to do more things that interest me.

    My love life started late.  Having been brought up in a all boys' school I was shy of girls.   Going to college helped change that, but it took me 5 years to get rid of my fear of girls and I plunged into a short engagement, which thankfully didn’t last long.  Then it was the doldrums for many more years gradually getting back courage to feel comfortable with girls again.  The rest of this story will come out in the Vegetarian pages.

   So I’ll leave you to browse my other pages at will, hope you enjoy your visit, have fun, and let me know what you think.

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