Author who left wife and child in NEW ZEALAND and came to Scotland for lock down

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I mean is he fucking nuts???

He left NEW ZEALAND to come here???

Apart from breaking lock down, obviously, who the hell would leave New Zealand?

Fud.

He lives in Scotland and came home as soon as he could. He will be doing 2 weeks isolation now and just wants to be at home. It's not his holiday home, he lives there it's his primary residence.

What clown fucks iff and leaves their kid?

Oh yeah, most men

No it's a holiday home.

He doesn't live in Scotland, he lives in America and he specifically says in the statement he issued that he's not moving to the UK.

The interesting point is he has a small child who he presumably wants to see every day so what kind of father instead of renting somewhere 5 minutes away comes back here? Also I thought press reports suggested his wife through him out for good reason.

He's a British man. He's from Portchester. He owns a home in Skye, which is in Britain. Prince Harry is also living in America, so he can't come back to the UK, because he is living in America? That discounts about a thousand actors, slebs, chefs and whatever who are British and living in America.

I wonder why he moved to Scotland and not the USA then if he’s a American and normally lives there? He has the risk of not being able to see his child for months now so even leaving NZ seems an odd choice.

Ok, so not American but normally lives there? Guess maybe he has family in the uk, parents, etc he might want to be closeish to.

1. I don't think they've ever lived together, so lockdown I imagine is challenging for both of them.
2. They were on holiday/extended break in NZ when the lockdown happened and they isolated there however and he has now returned home following split.
3. He's a writer and pretty much isolates in Scotland when he's writing if reports are to be believed, so no surprise he's bolted!

Probably so, Xenia, but should British people be denied the right to return to their home country in this when their marriage breaks down, even if they are rich? Maybe he's a shit, this was his second marriage and they both made no secret that it was open, but would people here say the same of a British woman married to a British man in NZ if their marriage broke down, no, stay there, you can't come back to the UK?

He is British. He is not a US citizen. He has never naturalised as a US citizen.

I am in favour of freedom and don't support lock down so that includes the freedom of people to move a long way away from their children I suppose.... my children's father first said he would kill himself if I wanted a divorce, then that he would move the other side of the world and then instead he moved 5 minutes away but never had them even for a single night a year so I certainly don't understand the mind of many men as regards their obligations and feelings for their children!

I just feel thic chap will not be doing much of his child's washing nor clearing up its sick if he is over here and I would camp out in a tent in the desert in Saudi if my children were there in order to be near them (when they were smaller).

4. Oh and they have an open relationship (which to me sounds doomed to failure but still...) She wanted to change the rules on the open bit once she had their child...not sure how that's worked our (badly I suspect!)

Think I read that leaving a home to cool down is legit, just that he did it on a trans Atlantic scale.

But yeah agree with Xenia - he could have rented a property to be near his young son, whatever arrangements marriage wise he has with his wife/partner.

I can’t get excited about it. He says he’s going to isolate for at least 2 weeks. He’s come from a place with very few cases. I can’t imagine the planes were full.

Again, Xenia, he might be a shit then, when it comes to his child, but he is a British person who is not a citizen of NZ or the US and Skye is in Britain, for all Sturgeon and her ilk wish it were not. He returned to Britain after relationship breakdown. Ditched her, ditched the kid (it's doubtful he'll be allowed to skip out on supporting the kid, but who knows).

With NZ lockdown rules would he be allowed back to see his son? I couldn’t imagine willingly travelling so far away from my young child not knowing whether I would be able to see them again for a very long time.

He has 4 children.

Where are the other children?

His first wife is British/English, too, he has 3 children by her. He's not American, he is not Kiwi, he is British and returned to a home in Britain following collapse of marriage.

The other children are adults. His first child was born in 1985.

He is British. He is not a US citizen. He has never naturalised as a US citizen.

He is normally resident on the East Coast of the US, an area that has been hard hit by the virus. Perhaps he thought he'd been safer from coronavirus on an isolated Scottish island... Given that his actions appear to be guided primarily by crashing self-interest, it wouldn't be altogether surprising.

His other three children are adults.

She wanted to change the rules on the open bit once she had their child...not sure how that's worked our (badly I suspect!)
Oh I didn't know that! Used to be a big fan of AFP but have really gone off her in the past 10 years & the final nail in the coffin was seeing how she affords her child zero privacy and posts photos and stories if him all over social media in order to get more attention for herself (which presumably NG was ok with too). So yeah, no respect for people who do that, or who run away to literally the other side of the world when they break up with their child's parent!

I had never heard of him until this week so I know nothing. If he has other children in Skye then moving to be near 3 whilst leaving one in NZ sounds responsible and fatherly.

I know someone who was so annoyed about how his local state school was treating the family when he took them out of school before lock down (school was talking about levying fines) when he had a high temp he packed the whole family's life up in London and within 7 days got a flight back to his homeland of NZ. I think they flew all the way back about 24 hours before UK lockdown. Got out in the nick of time. I see NZ schools are going back - even found this rather good song about

Sorry, I'm wrong, his first child was born in 1983. That makes him 36 or 37. The second, a daughter, was born in 1985, so she's 34 or 35. He's probably already a grandfather.