Actually Staggie’s wife wasn’t “Martine” but “Marchien” pronounced “Markeen” (an odd Dutch name). She died in March 1995 (just looked it up). I see she was living in Larkfield! Dave and Marchien lived previously on King George V Hill, Tunbridge Wells (known locally as Pig Hill) so I didn’t know they’d moved. When he called me for a job interview at his house in Jan 1979 he told me his address as King George V Hill and i replied “I know it, Pig Hill !”. I could tell he wasn’t at all amused but it’s true that everyone knows it as Pig Hill
The both of them smoked like chimneys. Dave was a funny fellow but he did have a fine sense of humour despite his rather grumpy side. I remember the totally politically incorrect picture he put up on the wall of a lady doing something intimate with a Coca Cola bottle with a note about George Fardell and the use of his empties
Shame it was such a sad end - he absolutely doted on Marchien