Welcome

    I'm delighted you've chosen to look in and connect with me and my work, and to glance at my work-in-progress.

   This is me at the launch of my first children's book "Max and the Gang of Five." (illustrated by my granddaughter Lucy, aged 12 at the time). The sequel is written, but not yet edited for publication.

    I love writing. I've always written. At age six I composed poetry, and later submitted for the school magazine. I once wrote a pantomime for a dance company. I contributed a terrible sketch for a stage Revue, devised a theatre adaptation of the lives of Gilbert & Sullivan through their music, and edited a musical society newsletter. I wrote a column in an antique magazine about funny things that happened on the way to the Antique Fair, and another about the antique markets in London. I reviewed art exhibitions, and edited a motor magazine. 
   Stuff like that.
  

   But I've only become purposeful about my writing recently. I'm now writing travel articles and memoirs, plus fiction novels - a serious challenge, but one from which I'm deriving a great deal of pleasure.
   Unfortunately somebody wrote about the Hogwarts Express first.
Bummer. I know I could have made something of this idea!
   Learning "the trade" is an amazing journey, during which I've met some wonderful fellow travellers. I'm a bit of a doer and a goer and I take my notebook with me, so I write a great deal of what I see and smell and taste and experience. I'm not a great talker, but I'm a great observer.

      Which leads me to my photography. Pictures are memories to be shared. I have extensive galleries of pictures in which you may or may not be interested, but I love them and I'll give you links to them if you want. I'm told they frame up well! 
    A few will appear on these pages.