PROFILE

NAME:- Martin Andrew Kelly

Born :- 30/Oct/1958

Home Location Now :- Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Work:- Computer systems Analyst, business Software(SAP), plant maintenance, doing some teaching/training just now.

Hobbies/Interests:- Computers, guitar, Primary school chess club, kids local football team coaching, building websites, DIY

Children:- 4 Martin (18), Iain (10), Patricia (8), Roisin (7)

Me with Bennachie(mountain) and river Don in the background May 2008, click photos to open up

Football team:- CELTIC   

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Favourite Colour:-   There are far too many beautiful shades to have just one favourite

Superstitious?:-   No

Glass half full or half empty:-  Half full - "Always look on the bright side"

Music tastes:-   Beatles, lots of (popular) classical, Simon&Garfunkel, Mike Oldfield, ELO, Meat loaf, the Dubliners, Gilbert&Sullivan, Irish Ballads, a few particular Bagpipe tunes(like Highand Cathedral)

What 3 things I would take on a desert island:-  

 Potted history

Grew up in Port Glasgow, went to primary school at St.Michaels, went to St.Columbas high school for a while before deciding (at 13 yrs) to become a priest. I then went to St.Vincents college seminary in Langbank for 2 years before moving to a higher seminary at St.Marys College, Blairs near Aberdeen.

I left Blairs after a short while after deciding the priesthood wasn't for me , and went back to St.Columbas High School. I left St.columbas and joined the RAF in late 1977. I trained initially as a ground electrical technician but on qualification was selected for further training on Radar control systems. Most of my time in the RAF was in radar, but I did have a couple of excursions to flying stations at RAF Laarbruch in Germany and RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland.

I got married in 1980 to Rosemary and we had  son Martin born on Dec 22 1989.

I spent a few months down in the Falklands around 1983 ( I had 3 winters in a row without a summer).

I left the RAF in 1988 and went into the Oil industry, where I have mostly stayed and am still working just now. Initially I was an Instrument Technician , but quickly move up to an Instrument and Control systems Engineer. I kind of changed careers again, still in the oil industry but became a computer programmer writing pure code for SAP

........ to be continued...

Me - just before taking the plunge for the second time.

    I got married for the second time at Eilan Donan Castle up near Skye.