Writing for pleasure for a long time. Usual stuff - poetry, short stories and short plays, lyrics, letters to the papers, funeral eulogies (?), odd entries to competitions. Living in Scotland, close to nature, is important to me. My wife, an avid reader, keeps insisting I DO something with my writing. I`m a lateral thinker, and I can`t help seeing the funny side of life, so my writing often has a quirky humour.