Welcome

The heads above have all been used by me at one time or another. The one on the right is currently in service and hopefully still has a yarn or two to tell.

What follows is a pick at the story of my life and a mention here and there of my books, which can be accessed by a link to another site.

Brought up in Scotland, I was a bothy dwelling farmworker for nine years followed by College on a scholarship and work as a farm manager in Surrey, then small farming in Devon and finally to Zambia building a sow unit and growing maize and sunflowers... To read the whole story, just click on "next" at the bottom of each page. Or, select a chapter from the navigation box on the left of each page. Either way, please read on ...