I love to write. A couple of years ago, I didn't know I could, but now I find myself rambling on at every opportunity.

Most of what I write is influenced by my surroundings. I am blessed to live right by the sea and on the edge of glorious countryside in the south east of England. The changing seasons, the unpredictable weather and the tangible sense of history have always provided rich pickings for the writers, painters and craftsmen that have based themselves here for generations.

As for me, I've not yet found the genre which best suits me. I dabble at humour, hammer at horror, and agonise over poetry.

I apologise in advance to any of my friends who may be reading this, because I am about to launch, yet again, into my reasons for finding poetry a tricky bedfellow.

Firstly there are so many forms and disciplines. Rules and formulae. I'm too much of a free spirit to be tied down. And to me, a lot of free verse seems nothing more than prose with gaps. Having said that, there are several poets here at Helium I am in awe of. You know who you are! When I read your work all of my prejudices fly out of the window.

There will never be a pattern to my work. Expect the unexpected. Not because I'm trying to be clever, but because I'm still experimenting. I'm hoping that one day something will click and I'll be able to give myself a title, and pop myself into a compartment - stick a label on myself!

So there you have it! A jaywalker on the writers road.

My passion is ...

good music, good art ,good food and a good woman - just can't find her!

I know too much about ...

selling

My parents always told me ...

I've forgotten!. Oh yes - they told me to remember EVERYTHING

My childhood ambition ...

to marry 3 times, divorce 3 times, have 3 kids etc and I did!

My favorite memory ...

Click on' My Blog' and read 'Now that's what I call a Stage Door'

Why I write ...

So I don't forget everything. Seriously!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Funny books / my computer screen / classic FM

My first job ...

Grocery shop assistant. Home & Colonial to be precise

My best moment ...

acheiving my childhood ambition

My inspiration ...

Everyone and everything around me. And Harveys Sussex Bitter

Entertainment > Music Education The legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach

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Easter 1998 I joined an audience of 2000 in Winchester Cathedral for a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. The memory of that evening will stay with me forever.

All around me the soft murmuring of two thousand souls filling the vast space of the ancient building. Expectant, excited, impatient.

One by one members of the orchestra amble toward the platform then sit chatting to each other and looking out into the sea of faces watching their every move.

A choir of a hundred file to the rear. Cherub faced boys resplendent in scarlet robes giggle behind cupped hands and behind the...

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