Simply Wed - A Teaser

Linda Rose – Thy Country Tis for Me

The United States of America has always held a fascination for me. Like a lot of Brits, the country that gave us John Wayne, Jimmy Cagney, Jimi Hendrix and more glamour than you can shake a stick at has always been the pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow.

The United States was what we strived for, despite what a lot people may say. Great Britain was in the doldrums after World War Two, ruined and broke after our heroic efforts in that war. We went looking to our transatlantic cousins for help.

I needed help in finding true love. I'd had my moments but was at the time in my life when I  needed someone who satisfied me completely – Ms. right, not just Ms. right now if you catch my drift!

I believe it was Eric Burdon of “The Animals” who famously sang “I'm just a soul whose intentions are good, oh Lord please don't let me be misunderstood”.  It took me a long time for me to finally appreciate myself and to find that special someone who understood me completely.

Linda Rose, the woman who I am happily married to and has encouraged me to write and write and write, was and is that special someone. We have had a wonderful life together, and  this year celebrate ten years since we first met and in November will have been married for eight years (our Bronze anniversary apparently!)

This story is the tale of how I first came to the United States of America and eventually came to live in Western Massachusetts. If someone had said to me at the beginning of the millennium that by the end of the decade I'd be happily married to a woman I met via a mutual interest in Simply Red I’d have said you were bonkers!

People have said to us that our story should have been told to Oprah - it’s supposedly that entertaining. It has not been your conventional relationship but hey, if it works, it works.

This is the story of my love affair with all things American, from the TV shows, the radio stations to the woman who has made me complete – my Linda. I’m happy to say that we proved a lot of people wrong and are, and will continue to be, “Simply Wed”.