After Kev moved out of his marriage, he moved back home to his Mothers and I was introduced to his family. The first that I met was his sister Sandra - usually called Sanny, and his youngest brother Andrew - they all called Booey, both were almost the same age as myself. Sanny had short blonde hair and was over 6ft (I think), she certainly towered over my 5ft 5.5inches (even though I wore high heels). Booey was the youngest and shortest and almost the same height as myself, more or less. He had short, wiry curly hair that was ... strawberry blonde, or ginger.
Kev told me, now that we were planning our future together, all our earnings needed to be saved for a deposit on a house. This meant spending our free time together at his Mum's house, rather than going out. A lot immediately changed, I had to travel by several buses to get to where they all lived. I began to get to know his family. Most of them, it seemed, worked in factories or were unemployed at the time.
Sanny was a big fan of Wallis clothing, and habitually slept in her makeup overnight. She didn't like ironing and Kev thought it was important that I offer to do this for her - weekly - in order to make a good impression and ensure a life long friendship. I wasn't at all convinced about this myself. The strangest thing was discovering, a few weeks later, that I had competition. Kev's brother Terry (who was by far the best looking male of the family) had a new girlfriend - Cathy, who also wanted to find favour with Sanny, or had been told the same thing. I gladly relinquished the ironing and sat back to watch how successful the ploy was.
Kev's Mum - Marie (pronounced 'Marry') - spent most of her weekends with their Dad, James (known as Bim). Although they were now divorced, their relationship continued on this basis for years. Kev thought it would help to impress his Mum if I did all the housework and prepared the Sunday meal.
Cathy soon took over this work too. Perhaps she was more determined?
