I now work [with great difficulty at times] as a water color painter. I have been married to Joan for 50 years.
We have 3 children and 4 grand children. Now 5 with the arrival 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 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