I’m Andrew Gunn, son of Jim Gunn.  That makes me a son of a Gunn!

I live in Sydney, Australia, with my partner Ruth.  I have a son (Ben) and a daughter (Kelly) both of whom are married and have families of their own here in Sydney.

I love travel and overseas countries I have visited are the USA, UK, Scotland, Ireland and Canada.  I have toured China and India. I have seen a bit of good old Oz too, having been to Tasmania three times, southern Queensland a couple of times, Kangaroo Island (even lived there for a time), Western Australia (Perth, the Kimberleys), Northern Territory (Kakadu, Litchfield areas) as well as lots of NSW.

I ride motorbikes.  Until recently I had  a BSA Lightning 650 and  a Yamaha XS 650.  The BSA was a 1966 model, a venerable old girl. I had this machine since 1998 and have even ridden it to Melbourne and back On the return journey at the time, Ruth sat as pillion on the back! Early in 2021 I sold it to a chap in Queensland. The Yamaha was a 1973 model TX – the first of the XS650 line to have the strengthened frame, overcoming the legendary “middle-of-the-frame hinge” handling problems experienced by the earlier models.  I sold this in 2016 and used the proceeds to buy a Yamaha FJR 1300 which now sits in the garage and is used on occasions when the weather is fine and I feel like getting out and about on two wheels

I like to cook and eat great food, as do my friends.

My job was with the New South Wales Department of Education, but in 2017, at the age of 65, I resigned from my position of PMO  manager and spent the next couple of years contracting in the IT industry at Sydney University and the University of New South Wales.

Although I was born and grew up in South Australia, most of my adult life has been spent living in Sydney.  The rest of my family remain living in South Australia and Tasmania.  I have three sisters, the oldest of which, until about a year ago lived with and cared for my father in Adelaide.  Dad now lives in a nursing home.  Of my other two sisters, one lives with her husband in Adelaide and the other lives in Tasmania.

Since moving home to Kurrajong in the Blue Mountains, I have pursued my hobby interests of woodworking and metal working.

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