{"id":2049,"date":"2017-08-09T13:33:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T12:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2017-08-09T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T12:49:50","slug":"they-met-in-marley-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2017\/08\/09\/they-met-in-marley-court\/","title":{"rendered":"They met in Marley Court…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a><\/span>It seems like only yesterday when I met my future amazing wife\u00a0Philippa (nee Swaby K84)\u00a0\u00a0in a Marley Court\u00a0kitchen but the reality is that it was a long, long time ago way\u00a0back in the autumn of 1987, the day after “the Great Storm”. Next week we\u00a0will be\u00a0celebrating 26 years of marriage.<\/p>\n

She was a housemate of a friend of mine and\u00a0I was living in Thornden Court with four other friends from my second year. Amazingly, two of these, Simon Field (R85)\u00a0and Ian Dewing (R85)\u00a0also went on to marry partners they met\u00a0at Kent. Another\u00a0friend of mine,\u00a0Lawrence Gold (K85) also\u00a0married a Kent graduate,\u00a0Donna Glasscock (K85).<\/p>\n

We have been living in Perth, Australia for the past 13 years and are now Australian citizens. In 2013 we made it back to Kent for a 25 year post graduation reunion with my housemates from Thornden Court. I’ve attached a few photos taken of my family at the time. Henry will be 13 next month and Bronagh 11.\u00a0Bronagh’s name is partially an\u00a0acknowledgement\u00a0of\u00a0my Irish ancestry but \u00a0the idea from the name came from a Bronagh I met during my third year at Kent. I was struck by what an amazingly\u00a0lovely name she had which stuck in my mind over the years.
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\n<\/span>During our visit we also went out to the house Philippa rented over the\u00a01985\/86 academic year. As\u00a0she walked up the road towards the house she recognised her original landlord and landlady who were preparing the house to rent to new students that coming academic year. You could not make that up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems like only yesterday when I met my future amazing wife\u00a0Philippa (nee Swaby K84)\u00a0\u00a0in a Marley Court\u00a0kitchen but the reality is that it was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34788,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}