I was born in 1932 in Kent [the bit that got swallowed up in Greater London]. I have been writing on and off all my life in between earning a precarious living mostly as a language teacher, and for 20 years running an international centre in Exeter – a spare time job that involved a 365 day working year, no money,  impossible invitations to everywhere in the world and meeting an amazing variety of interesting people . 

I moved to Wales in 1985 thus fulfilling a long cherished dream. I now live in an ancient farmhouse in Cwm Prysor North Wales with one remaining sheepdog, no more pet sheep and assorted ducks. Here I still teach [occasionally], paint and writes. My adopted land seems to have reawakened my muse.

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