The Foster Factory describes the experiences of an elderly couple who became foster carers in their mid-sixties. David and Marsha Learmont decided upon retirement that they weren't quite ready yet for pipe and slippers by the fire (not that Marsha had ever smoked a pipe.)
David Learmont
Biography
I was a teacher of French and German and then an expatriate teacher of English as a foreign language, working in (West) Germany, the Persian Gulf (as it was then), Qatar, Cyprus, the Arab Emirates, Cyprus and Hong Kong. I was also for many years a freelance journalist, writing regular columns in The Weekly Gulf Times (12 years), The Cyprus Weekly, and occasional articles in Pravda, The St Petersburg Times, Malta Now and others.