New Readers Start Here…

Starting with the feet – I live in Leicester, the Midlands, UK

My roots are my family and friends.  They are:

Mark, an ageing hippy, aka “nineteenthly”, intellectual, geek, maker of constant cups of tea, holder of two degrees in philosophy, works as a herbalist.  Is very successful and, the world being as it is, earns almost no money at all.

Holly, 14, creative, currently sporting green hair (it’s not easy being green)

Daniel, 11.  He is a lion tamer

the above children are home educated and have never set foot in a school.

My sister and her family live in Market Harborough

Friends:

Peter, drinker of beer and red wine

Steve, sender of emails and ecards, bringer of figs

We have lots of other friends all over the place but at the moment these are the two most important and the only ones reading the blog.

In what little remains of my public life I teach yoga and train yoga teachers.

I have been writing without hope or expectation for 30 years, turning over the pieces of my jigsaw, laying them out, putting one or two together but without a picture on the box.

I have written two novels.  The first, when I was eight, ran to one page on yellow paper (I had never heard of Stevie Smith) and then stopped.  The second, “Seven Days”, took place in a nuclear bunker.  It was too short.

Nowadays I write short stories and perform poems.