Long retired from a career in technical sales and marketing I am now an Amazon self published author of predominantly children's MG books.

Born in the NE of England I first met my wife to be at the age of eleven. A year later my family moved to another village 5 miles distant. We did not recognise each other when we met again aged seventeen but the attraction was instant and lasts to this day after marrying at the age of twent one.

Employment was responsible for moving the family (two boys) first to East Sussex for a decade and then to Hampshire for a further ten years before the company moved to the NW of England where we have now lived on the edge of a beautiful rural Lancashire town for over eighteen years.

Jimmy Crikey the hero of my series of children's books was born on the beach during a damp holiday in Great Yarmouth, to entertain my son ans his new found friend for an hours or so, during showers. THirty years later he was committed to the printed page, and continues to flourish from time to time.