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All of us are honed by our experiences, from childhood through to pensionable age. In my early teens I attended a school that released us, after our fifteenth birthday, to find a job or an apprenticeship. Many of my contemporaries found good apprenticeships and jobs in the local shipyard, soap factory and some followed their father to work on the docks, as a ‘docker’ (stevedore).

I’d been told that the world was my oyster, but I didn’t want to work in a ship yard, a soap factory or as a docker. My problem was that I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life; but who does at fifteen years of age?

If you wish to know what I decided to do just click on the my Blog.

I was born near the end of the second world war in Birkenhead, Merseyside, three streets away from the River Mersey, and the sounds and scent of the sea stimulated my imagination from an early age. I gained a scholarship to ‘HMS Conway’ Nautical Training College, where I spent two years before graduating to go to sea as a cadet with British India Steam Navigation Ltd.

After securing my Second Mates Ticket, I sailed as Third Officer in an LST (landing ship tanks) to Borneo during the Indonesian confrontation in the mid 60′s, and later cargo ships around the Far East, Australia & New Zealand before finally leaving the sea in 1969 to settle down and start a family with my lovely wife Maureen; eventually migrating to Australia in 1980 with our daughter and son.

I worked in the international courier and express freight industry, before starting my own company in 1995. I sold the company seven years later to have time to write and enjoy our children and three grandchildren.