I had spent Christmas with my family, enjoying the company and enjoying the winter months in West Germany, knee-deep in snow as I walked around the military base where my father was stationed. There was the occasional meal out in Rheydt and a European football match between Borussia Mönchen-Gladbach and Wacker Innsbruck, where the visiting fans made themselves heard by ringing large cow bells throughout the game! Finally,...

Crouch End wasn't the best part of London to live in but her flat was a lot better than my old bedsit in the Holloway Road and definitely better than Richie's sofa! Jan and I decided that our relationship was going well enough to perhaps get a bigger flat. We looked at a few places and eventually, rented a place in Stamford Hill, a bit further out from central London. It wasn't a bad flat but the suburban railway line ran...

No matter what Jan did to try and keep me, I had just had enough of her mood swings which led to the bickering which would, quite often, lead to full on arguments. But these would often lead to amazing, foul-mouthed make up sex! Not the first time I've had to deal with a romantic dilemma ... Meanwhile, back at work, Kirsten, the new woman who had caught my eye and who was on the way to capturing my heart, was moving from...

Kirsten and I lived together, first, at her parents house (they were living nearer to her father's work) and soon, in a rented flat near the town centre by the river. I had detected a limited nature in our early lovemaking and Kirsten confessed that she had only been with two men before me abd neither of them had been very adventurous. So, we became almost like student and teacher. I was trying to bring to her my experien...