We Escaped Our Sad Life Behind Bar in Tenerife ; After Rainy Days in Bolton Market, Joe and Joy Hoped for a New Start in the Sun. They Found the Heat but Then Chose to Get Out of the Kitchen
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It was while holding aloft a not altogether pleasant-smelling mackerel that the decision was made. The March rain hammered on the rotting tin roof high above the market stall in Bolton, where I had spent the past six months pushing out trays of marine life at three for a fiver.
This was my job after a youth spent messing about in bands and trying to get film work. I had just returned from a two-week holiday in Tenerife with my partner Joy, who worked the chicken stall further along. We both vowed that a life in fish and chicken giblets was not going to be our destiny and that a life in the sun was.See the full content of this document
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We Escaped Our Sad Life Behind Bar in Tenerife ; After Rainy Days in Bolton Market, Joe and Joy Hoped for a New Start in the Sun. They Found the Heat but Then Chose to Get Out of the Kitchen
Like so many who momentarily toy with the idea of turning their fortnight stay in the sun into a more permanent one, thoughts of relocating abroad began on an oceanfront balcony in Adeje with a glass of wine in hand, watching the sinking sun turn the sky into a glory of fiery red.
Work in the Lancashire gloom of two-tone grey ...See the full content of this document
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