Daniel

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Married to Henrietta in Amman in Jordan, 2005. The Blessing of the marriage was at Dalham Church in Suffolk in September. Family and Friends from Jordan, Portugal, Switzerland, Scotland, Manchester and Birmingham visited for the occasion. He has now settled with Henrietta in Amman where he manages the British Club. He has sold ball valves and industrial pipe, worked as a Financial Adviser (TSB) and worked in Quality Assurance for Home Shopping Europe prior to its demise following the Enron affair. He has also worked as a newsreader and DJ for Mood.fm. a Jordanian easy listening music radio station and done free lance editing. Redundancies and a distaste for the unethical made him one of the most experienced, unemployed Business Studies graduates for a time. He decided to take a year out to acquire an MBA at Huddersfield University. Whilst there he met Henrietta. With the MBA successfully under his belt, he obtained a job with The Best Practice Club in Cambridge and worked for them for a year before marrying Henrietta and moving to Amman.

In January of this year Henrietta and Daniel adopted Natalie, a newly born abandonned baby. More pictures when I learn how!

David

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David Pugh (whose website this is) - a brief biography
I retired from the headship of a 9-13 Middle School in Suffolk in August 2000. After I retired I undertook a number of consultancy/interim management roles for a period of about three years. Since then, this web site has become a compulsive part of my retirement project.

I trained as a music teacher at Bretton Hall in the mid sixties and started my professional life in Morley, Leeds, where I taught for two years. I then taught in Livingstone (Zambia), Slough, Northampton, Devon and lastly in Suffolk.

Extended study resulted in an Advanced Diploma in Educational Studies (Junior Education) from Leicester University, an OU degree in Music and Philosophy and a Master's degree in Creative Arts in Education from Exeter (tutor: Malcolm Ross)

Arranging and composing music has been a central part of my life throughout my career. A hymn tune of mine appears in 'A Time to Sing' (Macmillan's school hymn book) though I doubt anybody sings it now. Through most of my adolescent and adult life I have played a church organ - and conducted Church Choirs. I presently play at St. Philip's and St. Etheldreda (The Hospital Chapel) in Newmarket. I have been interested in early music, play the recorder - all of them my fingers will now fit - and in the 1970's and 80's was a member of the Nene Consort under Dick Coles in Northampton - happy times!

Part of my retirement plan is to assemble my music, original compositions and arrangements, and publish them on the net. An increasing number of these are new, but the school music ones were written for use by children in the classroom. Hard copy is also also available.

Judith

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Judith still works as an Events Executive for ESRI (UK), a significant Geographic Information System company but now travels between the Cambridge and Aylsbury offices. A full programme of organising events from conferences and exhibitions to seminars and meetings, keeps her busy.

The picture is of Judith with Harun. Nick and Shaista's eldest

Leslie Pugh

David's father text

Maggie

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Married (38 years!)- Maggie - not too interested in modern technology, like web pages, although she's recently acquired a laptop and is getting to grips with it. Also she doesn't usually like having her photograph taken! Great interest in the WI, though not in Calendars. REtired as a supply teacher and LSA in a local primary school. And also an efficient and hardworking Church Warden. She makes jams, pickles and chutneys to sell to walkers and other visitors to the church. She also organises the cache for geocaching visitors.

Nicholas

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Married to Shaista, 2003, Nick is doing post Doctoral research at Cambridge University. Following the birth of her two sons, Haroun and Sami, Shaista has given up her research work at the Babrahan Centre to train as a teacher. The 2003 weddings - one Muslim, one Christian, were a delight for the respective families. Now happily occupying a house near Cambridge after an exciting but delayed honeymoon to Peru. The trip to Peru was thoroughly enjoyed and in the following year they went to Egypt.

This picture was taken at Nick's PhD graduation at Imperial College, London.