I was born and brought up in the west of London during the fifties and sixties and went to Chiswick County Grammar School. In 1972, I graduated in Chemistry at the University of Hull then following a post-graduate teaching course I taught science in Bermondsey, south London for two years. We then went to Zambia (Central Africa) for three years where I became Head of Science. On our return in 1979, we came to Oxfordshire where I took up various posts: Wood Green School in Witney, St Birinus School in Didcot and John Mason School in Abingdon. Since 1985, I have been at Didcot Girls' School, first as a science teacher, and a year later as Head of Information Technology.

In my spare time when I can tear myself away from the computer or mending the car, I enjoy hiking (hence the photos), tai chi, swimming, ice skating, DIY, and reading science fiction/fantasy novels.

I married my "first" wife Joan in 1972 and we have two girls - Penny (born 1979) and Jessie (born 1984), plus a cat, a dog, a hamster and a varying number of rats, guinea pigs, fish and African land snails. Unfortunately our duck, which survived nearly 10 years happily roaming the garden, was killed by a fox.

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