I am a happily retired lecturer in economics and environmental studies. I live in the heart of Snowdonia in a former slate quarryman's house I own. It's actually two that I converted into one which now contains a kitchen, two reception rooms, two bathrooms and three bedrooms. Outside there are three patios and three vegetable gardens where I spend many contented hours.
I'm not religious but try to live ethically. I live modestly but enjoy life to the full. I like the quiet life but birdsong fills my soul. I'm not rich but have more than enough money to live on. I enjoy all aspects of the natural world; walking in the mountains, on the beach and along the estuaries; reading, mainly non-fiction (currently a biography of Darwin) but I also enjoy the occasional novel - as a former merchant seaman I couldn't put down "Enigma" by Robert Harris. I also enjoy good food and wine and the occasional evening out but my preference would be for a small gathering of friends at home. I like to think of myself as a competent cook but Yottam tests my patience. I am told that I'm creative and good with my hands which is probably why I enjoy DIY. I also like to write - recent efforts have included family history and maritime history but in the 1990s I co-authored "Green Economics" for Heinemann. Before I'm eighty I hope to complete my first novel about the 1960s which will be a potboiler set in the valleys of south Wales where I was born.
