I’m a writer, former politician, and sometime community activist based in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom and more recently also a small village in the department of Lot-et-Garonne in southwest France.

I started writing poetry in 1978 when I was 11 years old and sailing in the Pacific on what turned out to be a seven year voyage around the world with my family on a small yacht. 

I love words, just the shape of them on the page, and the feel and sound of them when they are spoken into the air. I kept on writing all my life and I had some success but jobs, family and politics always took up more of my time.

At least, until 2022 when a dramatic change in my life left me at the age of 55 with a full-blown mid-life crisis. 

So I rediscovered writing and my childhood dreams. I’m starting again, or picking up the thread which was always there.

On this website I’ve kept some of my earlier, political material. Over the coming days, months and years I will build up the writing – fresh new material, as well as stories from the past.

Please do join me, and enjoy the journey. Who knows where we’ll end up!