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ndrew Knapper moved to great britain from Canada in January 2005 for a short-term agreement, but never ever likely to remain. “I was based in Stirling in Scotland for a nine-month part in management consultancy,” he says. One Sunday that summer, he and a friend went for a hike up Ben Lomond. The guy did not understand it at that time, but Rachel Hirst was not much at the rear of. “It was one of those uncommon sunny times in Scotland, therefore I thought I would go after a walk prior to getting in which includes work,” she states. When she surely got to the most effective, she found by herself resting near Andrew.

“I was wearing my personal rain trousers that time because it was basically cloudy each morning,” he states. “But, as a Canadian, We have constantly called all of them jeans. I became talking-to my buddy about whether i might need to wear them on route down.” Rachel found it entertaining. “we overheard him ask their friend if the guy should just take their jeans down and I burst completely chuckling. We informed him, as good English lady, I’d for ages been taught maintain my shorts in.”

They eventually had gotten chatting and Rachel signed up with Andrew with his friend on an alternate path back down the mountain. “It is funny, because up to the period I have been very happy being single. But taking walks down that hill, I realized there clearly was some thing here,” she states. “I asked easily could remain him a pint once we got to underneath in which he unearthed that actually funny.” After drinks on club, they exchanged figures. “She texted me a short while later to state simply how much she’d loved by herself. She never performed get to any office that afternoon.”

Considering different responsibilities, it took them three months to create a night out together. “On the next week, my sister’s godmother was staying with me, but i possibly couldn’t put him off once more,” says Rachel. Rather, he signed up with them on a holiday to
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in Helensburgh. “I became to my greatest behaviour,” says Andrew. “Later on, she [the godmother] went residence and then we were able to familiarize yourself with one another better. We nearly turned into a few that day.” The pair found they’d lots in accordance and provided interests for climbing and travel. At the end of the season, they decided to go to Jordan together and got a number of excursions across the UK.

These summer time, Andrew started work with Belgium, time for see Rachel in Glasgow every week-end. “Sometimes I would get and fulfill him in Amsterdam or Paris or Prague. We’d plenty of little activities.” They moved in with each other in July 2007 and had gotten married the next month inside the Yorkshire Dales, in which her family lived. Their unique very first son grew up in 2008. “He was a honeymoon infant, but the guy arrived very early. I invested considerable time reminding people he had been early,” claims Rachel, laughing. “Our second boy grew up in 2010.”

Rachel works as an ecologist and Andrew has actually persisted his operate in consulting, throughout the UK and abroad. He went along to Australian Continent for a project in 2016, which she states had been “really tough”. Among the many wonderful aspects of lockdown is that they can save money time together.

Andrew says that, while Rachel is actually gorgeous and intelligent, they likewise have shared principles. “she’s got a powerful sense of exactly what it means to be a family, that we constantly appreciated, especially when i will be a distance from my residence,” he says. For Rachel, it really is her partner’s calm character which makes their particular relationship work so well. “he is never ever fazed by something and he’s constantly ready. Once I in the morning active flapping, he keeps me in check.”

When lockdown has ended, the couple intend to save money time going and discovering employing kids. “we have used them to see Ben Lomond prior to, observe where we came across,” claims Rachel. “They refer to it as all of our mountain. I like being able to let them know our story.”

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