I'm a retired Chartered Quantity Surveyor, now enjoying the relative freedom of writing. At the end of 2011 my first novel was published, since when I have written three further novels (one of which, a novel written in verse, will hopefully be published in 2023) and am currently workjng on a fifth while dabbling, from time to time, in poetry. I play classical guitar, have a wide taste in music but a particular weakness  for just about anything plucked, picked, strummed or twanged on the guitar. I read to some extent almost every day and spend a considerable amount of time entertaining grandchildren. I enjoy the occasional concert and trip to the theatre.

I would enjoy communicating with anyone who enjoys conversation. All I ask for... is sincerity.

Playing classical guitar, writing, sketching, cartooning, Wu Chi, power napping.

Early music, baroque music, romantic chamber music, avant garde, rock/metal/jazz fusion, blues.

'The Pickwick Papers' by Charles Dickens; 'The Mystery Of Henri Pick' by David Foenkinos; 'Death and the Penguin' by Andrey Kurkov; anything by PG Wodehouse.