I was born in Weston Super Mare in 1939, spent formative years in South Africa, and, on returning to UK went into pharmacy.   I then trained at London Bible College and served as a Baptist Minister for ten years before changing to teaching. I taught for 25 years mostly at Backwell Junior School in Somerset.

As a teacher I was responsible for science and then IT which was emerging in the nineteen eighties.

The frog has become a kind of personal logo - I have a large collection of toy frogs given me over the years by children I have taught.

I retired just over five years ago. But I am now working part time as a tutor at Weston College UK Online

My web sites include pages for : theology &  philately,  and this site includes a  page about my childhood memories of  the war and a gallery of photographs of family and my home town in the South West of England.

I married Valerie in 1962 and we now have two children - now grown up of course : Stephen, programming for Bristol City Council;  and Carol, teaching English in Brazil.  Mark died, age 33 on 20 March 2001.   

Val and I  now live in a Victorian terraced house in the  sea-side resort of Weston-Super-Mare.

Weston is situated  some twenty-three miles south of Bristol. Many of its population work in that city. Others are involved in aspects of tourism.  Weston is famous for its sandy beaches - and for the long way that the sea goes out at low tide. The Bristol Channel has the second highest tidal  difference in the world.  Visitors who come at low tide often go back with a view of the resort as Weston on the Mud!