[j52c]

Going back a bit but when I was in my early teens and going to Grammar School, there was another boy who went with me, he lived just a few houses away, his father was English and his mother German, she would not speak english either in or outside her home, she didn't go to the local shops, she always sent her son.

As I got older I spent some time in Germany in association with my work, I met this young girl and when it became time for me to return home she came with me. Not long after we got married and we still are to this day, married now for 38 years. My wife speaks with a perfect Derbyshire accent, infact, the only time there is the slightest hint of her previous language is when she gets a little upset. It also takes her a little time to get back into the German language when we go over there to visit her remaining family.