Arthur Gardner

Leading up to retirement, Arthur Gardner had many conversations with a close friend about what they would do. When it finally came to "What now?" the friend retorted, "For a start, there's your life story: war time evacuation, failed the 11 plus, 5-year apprenticeship, 2 years National Service, marriage, children, work, lifestyle change, the awful retirement experience and much, much more."

That spurred Arthur on to write over 70,000 words about the different stages of his life. At the age of 26, he changed careers; reading the Daily Mirror one day, the Telegraph the next. After many years in commerce, finally Arthur, leading up to retirement, spent some years as a self-employed landscape gardener. Leaning on his own experiences, in parallel with scripting his life story, Arthur has also penned this account of life in a fictitious retirement property.

The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any apparent similarity to real persons is not intended by the author and is either a coincidence or the product of your own troubled imagination.