MicroBen

Hello, my name is David and I am an Octogenarian living In Derby. I was born and educated In Bristol, then moved to Surrey to train and become an Accountant. My firm moved me to Derbyshire where I worked until I was 50, and I then worked for Brewing businesses in Burton on Trent for 10 years as a Tax specialist, and from then until my retirement in 2005 I was self-employed as a lecturer on Tax.

My wife Mary and I look forward to our Diamond wedding anniversary in 2024 and spend a lot of time in our garden, and with our first garden swing, it is a joy to gently rock to sleep.

In my retirement, and indeed for most our married lives, we have been involved in fund raising for one organisation or another. Committee members for our community village Fair in Surrey, raising funds in our present village for a new cricket pavilion, and raising money for a new mini bus for our local deaf school, as well as raising money to fund tournaments for a youth tenpin bowling club, shows that we have kept active.
Currently I am a volunteer at our local library, the council providing insufficient funds to employ full-time staff, and I am also a Professional Patient at Derby University Hospital. This entails acting as a patient at the teaching sessions, and in my case enabling graduates to delve into my post cancer treatment experiences to widen their knowledge.

But I have a weakness. I collect legs! In fact I have created the word for a leg collector, A Microtibialist. Despite an abortive appeal to a National newspaper for reader suggestions, we produced our own name, from Micro (small) Tibia (Leg) = Microtibialist… Small Leg
collector.

The legs are all small item shaped like a human leg, and I have over 172 such legs, in about 35 categories. Combs, pipes, shoe-horns, bottle openers, nail file, walking sticks, they are all pocket sized, and the majority of the collection have a function. The greatest number are pipe Tampers, an L-shaped device that pipe smokers would use to tamp down tobacco in a smoking pipe.

Legs are made of many different materials, bone, wood, brass, bronze, mother of pearl, some Ivory (which I no longer collect), one of soap!, plastic, vulcanite, Bakelite, iron.. there is no limit.

So with my enthusiasm for legs, and my wife’s for jewellery, we spend many happy hours at Antique Fairs, and are always pleased to know about any legs we can add to my collection.

If you google David Bennett Leg Collector you will find videos about the Grandpa collector!!!!
or google Alleslegtree.blogspot.com

Oh, and my biggest excitement was 3 years ago when I flew 100 miles an hour, head first on the North Wales Zip wire! What a buzz.. I'd do it again

Choice of cards? YOU choose what you think an Ornithological, fund raising Octogenarian Microtibialist would like!! I don't mind atall.
David