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Terry Gagarin-Rawlings
Biography
Born 1939, West Ham Hospital and lived in Leytonstone until my father died and we moved to Essex. Final home was my teen years at Great Leighs until I joined the Army, spending most of my REME service in the Malaysia area over three postings.
I left REME and found employment in the security industry. My dress sense - suit and tie - my mechanical and electrical and electronic studies paid and a military bearing helped. marriage and city life did not appeal to me.
In 1979 I moved with my wife finally pregnant to Ashurst, Hampshire. Seperating in 1984 I lived and worked in Southampton until my son completed University, my daughter married and my wife divorced and remarried.......
... ... ... in 2010 I relocated to the UK from Volgograd to Fawley Village Hants. UK with my Russian paraplegic wife, whom I married 07.07.07 in Volgograd, joining me a few months later. In January 2014 my wife Svetlana, Sveta or Lana, found a volunteer position with Wessex Archaeology on the New Forest Park WW2 project, transcribing audio memories to the internet.
Sveta learnt to drive a fully adapted Kango and became a Citizen in 2013.
2014 is our 7th year of marriage, and on 07.07.14 we renewed our vows and Sveta passed her test. We have decided to go back to colledge in Totton. We started jointly taking Philosophy of Mind as a refresher for Sveta & I, to find a joint education to ameliorate the cultural clashes between us.
I am now re-educating myself to support Sveta's hopes fo attend Southampton Universitys Marine Centre next year with experience - Science - Biology - Mycology - self taught from The real Magick of Mushrooms and Fungal Forays.
