Cool Blogger: BARE FOOT MANIACS is a small insular and incestuous community composed mainly of expatriate British middle class semi retirees so you can imagine how big the gossip factor is there. Jean being a well-known and respected figure in town simply couldn't allow this nest of vipers the satisfaction of gossiping about her therefore no-one knew of my existence or of our relationship and that, from my point of view, was the cause of some tension. To be fair, she really sorted my life out, allowing me to study at the TAFE College and she was influential in helping me to secure a position at the bank. Several months later she dumped me rather unceremoniously and disappeared overseas for an unspecified length of time. I suspected that she was cheating on me but was unduly concerned because I was cheating on her.
