Alison and Nick

   

This is a picture of us taken last year outside Buckingham Palace - we'd been lucky enough to get an invitation to a garden party inside. We've been married almost 18 years and first met when we were teenagers at Medical School. We both now work in hospitals in Birmingham. Much of time is spent enjoying our children's many activities. When we've time, we have many interests including sailing, skiing, swimming, reading, cinema and gardening. The second picture was taken at a sailing competition, though usually competing is not too successful so we just sail together for fun! The third picture was froom our holiday this summer.

Nick works as a cancer specialist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and is also a professor at the University of Birmingham. Alison is a psychiatrist and also is a senior lecturer at the University. Our lives are thus a mix of clinical and academic work, which is sometimes difficult but never boring.