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 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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