Who are we?

For those that feel they need to know a bit more about us. Our chums don't need to read this bit.

To make this blog entry easier to write, please forgive me if I use the third person:

Dom and Beth have been together since 1995, and married since 2002. Dom is in his late thirties, Beth is somewhat younger. Dom has been, at various times in his career, a door-to-door encyclopaedia salesman, financial advisor, film producer, entrepreneur, photographer and advertising agency executive. He has no qualifications for anything he has done, except scuba diving, where he is the proud wielder of the basic PADI open water certificate ("tourist class" - he blows and wheezes his way through a 300 bar tank in about thirty minutes, and the sound of his attempts to equalise scare all the fish away). Beth, on the other hand, is a physiology graduate, knows what the knee bone is connected to, and has had a proper job for the past few years in the pharmaceutical industry. Beth also has a PADI certificate, but has trouble clearing her mask, and so has thus never actually seen anything underwater.

They are also keen skiers, experienced sailors (currently studying to be yachtmaster) and good at Trivial Pursuit.

In fact, Dom and Beth could be said to be a very fortunate couple: they are attractive (well, Beth is), fairly fit, in robust health and financially secure. They are perhaps an archetypal middle class couple to be found anywhere in the wealthy western world. However, in 2003 they decided to give up all the comfortable trimmings of life in Clifton, Bristol and sign up to become volunteers with VSO. Dom will be using his skills as an entrepreneur, change agent and marketeer to improve livlihoods in the Developing world, and Beth will be using her knowledge of palliative care and the hospice movement to improve the lives of the terminally ill, and also to do some HIV/AIDS education.

This blog has been set up to act as a repository, journal and photo album for the two and a half years that Dom and Beth are away.

Comments

[steven davies]

I see that you are keen on scuba diving.Can you tell me where can I find some scuba diving computers(some site maybe).