Category: A life in words

There are plenty of ways in which we can all try to make a difference – volunteering is one of them.

Blimey, what a lot I’ve got out there over the years, and on quite range of topics, and that’s not including proper journalism. No wonder I’ve never finished ‘my novel’!

Journalism has been at the heart of what has turned out to be a pretty varied and invigorating career

In the reference that got me my first job, Dr Cedric Watts described me as ‘an autodidact’ (I had to look it up). However I do have teachers to thank for what I did learn at school.