Wartime blackout, ration books, playing in the street, Festival of Britain, Gamages, catapults, Canvey Island floods, holidays at Butlins, Skiffle and Rock'n'Roll, Coffee Bars in Soho, Dagenham Train Crash, pen friends in France, working at holiday camp, bedsits in London, Stones in the park and Dylan at Isle of Wight and plans to see the world.
Raised in Upney, near Barking Essex in 1942. Travelled to Australia as a Ten Pound Pom in 1970 and spent the rest of the decade working overseas. Took up freelance writing in the nineties and also worked on Internet Music Forums before getting into web site design and maintenance. Retired in 2007 to live in Spain.
I love writing about nostalgia and the past. Music is one of my great passions - mainly country and bluegrass and rock'n'roll. I am also a great cat lover and owned cats most of my life. I currently share the house with three Norwegian Forest cats.