About

I was born in Cleethorpes, a small coastal town situated on the southern shore of the River Humber estuary, in the United Kingdom.   My parents moved to Ipswich when I was three years old and I enjoyed an idyllic childhood in rural Suffolk before returning to Lincolnshire in the late Sixties, when my father returned to his former workplace.   After working for two enjoyable years in the Chemistry and Microbiology laboratories at Findus, a frozen food company based in Grimsby and Cleethorpes, I returned to full-time education to study Food Science and Engineering.

I began keeping a journal around the age of nine in 1966, and enjoyed writing essays at school.  Having received a Chinon Memotron SLR camera for my eighteenth birthday in 1975, I developed a keen interest in photography.

After qualifying, I married at the tender age of 21 in 1978 and moved to York in North Yorkshire, to work for Rowntree Mackintosh plc.  During my time with Rowntree’s and later with Nestlé (who bought-out Rowntree’s in 1988), I travelled extensively for work and pleasure, and further developed my photographic and writing skills.  I remarried in 1996 and together with my new wife, raised two wonderful children.  Time passes quickly, and these children have now matured into amazing adults, found partners and had children of their own.  To date, I have four young granddaughters!

After a career spanning thirty-eight years in Technical, Production, Marketing and Sales, I retired at the age of 57 in 2014 to concentrate on travel, photography and writing, while still enjoying time together with my growing family and friends.