THIS IS NOT YOUR PARENTS MIDDLE AGE!
Being Middle Aged is nothing like it was when most of our parents were in the same place. We’re younger looking, healthier due to better diet, we have more time to exercise and we haven’t been beaten down by a lifetime of working in factories with poor working conditions. The question is; what do we do with this opportunity that many of our parents didn’t have?
Chris was born and raised in America in Ithaca, New York (That’s the state, not the city) She started her hospitality career working at ‘Mr Donut’ (hey, it was America) and worked her way up to the dizzying heights of Catering Director and Events Manager. She had the pleasure and privilege of working at at the National Democratic Club and the World Bank in Washington DC. Over the years that she worked there she got to hobnob with the likes of Al Gore and Bill Clinton.
Lee’s first job was working in a circus (no, really) He was an assistant to several acts at the Great Yarmouth Hippodrome in England. At the end of the summer of 1971 he joined the Army at the ripe old age of 16 and served for eight and a half years. After leaving the army in 1979 he went to America for the summer, as a Camp Counselor. He went to America with a backpack and a guitar and returned twenty five years later with a backpack, a guitar, a wife and a daughter. In 1996 he decided to give up a career as a restaurant manager and follow his dream to become an actor. Lee worked as an actor and stage carpenter for nearly ten years in America and on returning to England he was a Performing Arts Manager and the Head of Tech for the Warner Brothers Studio Tour, the Making of Harry Potter. He did that for a spell (sorry, dad humour) Now, in full middle aged mode he and Chris are off on a new adventure called Middle Aged, Not Dead!