I'm 70 on the 5th of August. I'm a half-cast Australian.

I've been an adventurer all my life.

A Bird keeper at Chester Zoo. A Merchant Seaman. A Soldier in the British Army. A Warehouse man in a ladies underwhere factory. A Bus driver. A long distant lorry driver in Australia. A mine labourer in Cumberland. A Bricklayers labourer. Builders Labourer. A Dispatch supervisor. Senior Utility on a Oil exploration Ship. Salad cook on an Oil Field on an isolated Island off the North West Coast of Australia. A Dairy hand, milking Cows. A fruit tree pruner.

A senior Firefighter in the West Australian Bush Fire Brigade. Secretary of an Art Society. Volunteer with Meals on Wheels. A volunteer in the study of Marine Turtles for the West Australian Government.

Hobbies: Bird Watching, Painting, Walking, Swimming, Gardening, Poetry and writing, and right now in retirement, Photographing all aspects of the British environment.