I have re-listened through my interviews with my grandparents and have extracted my favourite quotes from each topic heading. I plan to put these quotes into my photo book.

Faith 

Faith is a huge part of my life because my life is build around what I believe and I believe in God and i Believe that gods son died for me with unconditional Love.

Our christian faith has taught us to look beyond our self and look to see how we can help our family first and other people second.

Family 

I think family is extremely important to me. I try and do for my family, by going the extra mile. Sometimes when I am asked to help out, it can be extremely inconvenient but I always try to go that extra mile… or two.

Wales 

Living in Wales as a child, I was always surrounded by lots of aunts and uncles, so we were never short of baby sitters. Our town was a very close loving community in which we lived, and I sometimes think today that this is one of the things that we lack. We don’t have the time to look outside our door and see the needs of how we can help other people.

Jersey 

Ruth and I were engaged when I got appointed a role at St Marks primary school. We got married the following March 1964. We came to live in a flat in Jersey and despite changing flats and houses a few times we never anchored to move back to the mainland. All our children are Jersey born, which has an advantage and have all come back to live on the island. So who knows, perhaps  the Heaven household will be in Jersey for a while yet.

Music 

We have always been surrounded in music, I began piano lessons at the age of 7 and started to play the organ for our Sunday serves at the age of 15. Eventually when I moved to Jersey somebody asked me not to play the piano for them, but would I sing, and there began my “singing career”.

I enjoy listening to music, whereas my husband likes to perform. I think this is one of the good things about our marriage that we are both interested in music, in different ways and that a huge thing in our life. There is nothing more wonderful for me than to be in the kitchen working and your Grandpa to be playing the piano in the lounge.

Marriage 

I often think we were very young when we got married and if it was a daughter of mine I would say no don’t get married that young. But we were fortunate that we have stuck together for 51..52 years, so we have had a wonderful married life and we are really very fortunate.

Married; March 1964