Bob's Pages
Here
I am - peering into the webcam (usually turned off - don't want
to frighten anyone!) Who am I (I often ask myself)? I'm 
Bob
Henson, born too long ago (1943 - if you promise not to tell anyone) in
Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, but for the last 35 years or so
domiciled in Tetbury,
Gloucestershire. Tetbury is a lovely Cotswold Market town, once a very
wealthy centre of the Wool Trade. I'm a retired pharmacist, and have
worked in
pharmacy for most of the last 43 years since I qualified at Manchester
University in 1966. I did stray off into the insurance business
for a while, and then into Medical Sales, but I came back into
community pharmacy when I bought my own business (Norman Bell
Chemists - the name of my predecessor - in Tetbury). I had
the honour of being granted the Royal Warrant to H.R.H. The Prince of
Wales, whose country home, Highgrove, is nearby. When times
became too hard for small businesses, I moved into a new pharmacy in
the local Medical Practice's surgery. That's the building in the
picture (it used to be the Sir William Romney School) - it
doesn't really lean at that crazy angle (cheap wide angle lens) but it
certainly hasn't got a lot of straight l
ines and square corners. A couple of years back we were bought out by another company,
and I worked there for them as Pharmacy Manager until I retired at
the end of February 2010. I'm now working out what I'm going to do with
myself, and how I'm going to ration my time between the various
ideas. I don't know how I ever found time for a full-time job -
being retired is already proving hard work. Sue (see Sue's pages ) is
threatening dire consequences if the house isn't spotless and dinner isn't ready when she gets
home from work! Fair dues, now she's the breadwinner, she calls the
shots. She's given me a new title - Domestic Manager. Posh, is it not?