This is my autobiography for the years 1998-2012 when I was working for the London Borough of Merton and Lincolnshire County Council. It spans the years when Tony Blair's New Labour government was in power. It includes my move to Sleaford, Lincolnshire in 2004, after living in Orpington for the previous 48 years and moving out of my home at 32 Petten Grove, where I had lived for 44 years. It includes my redundancy in 2011 and my brief period of freedom from work before moving to Canada in 2012.