About Me

C++ Programmer, Travelling Birder & Writer

I’ve been finding birds since 1995 and listing them with the excuse that it’s citizen science. Over 600 blog posts mark a diversification into writing (CV here), especially of a full-length road trip through Australasia. Not content to do anything by halves, I’m working on my first three novels.

One, apocalyptic, story is complete as a first edition, although I’m reworking a second, more thriller-like version of it. Both have a romantic sub-plot. Another book is science fiction and the third is semi-autobiographical, about growing up in the 1960s and 70s. Throw in birding booklets, the odd short story and movie and that’s my oeuvre.

Also occupying my time is deep green conservation, which was not exactly predicated by my education and career in science and computers. True, this took me all over Britain, to Italy, Germany and various bits of the USA. I grew an appetite for travel, which is all the keener for discovering the natural world. Although I love the way it also plays out right at home, here in Portishead, close to Bristol.

I’m blessed to have the freedom to live this way although I do see it as a consequence of taking on 100% responsibility for my life – the other side of the coin, as it were. I have Landmark Education to thank for that.

I also play a little Texas Holdem poker online, and dabble in movies, modern art and whatever my latest fancy is.