The author is a retired former mathematics and computer science teacher, having taught in a grammar school, college of education and sixth form college, with nine years’ service in the Royal Navy as a young man. Since retiring he has become interested in local history and has had some titles published. This is his first venture into fiction writing, but he has also amused himself for many years by writing unpublished essays on current affairs, education and in fact anything on which he wished to express an opinion. He came to live in Australia, together with his wife of 40 years, in 2001 to be near his son, daughter and their children.
When the author reached the age of eighty, and was no longer able to travel much, he began to put a few words on paper; his motivation was to keep his mind alert as his muscles weakened. Some of these ‘musings’ attempted to be amusing, without much success. Others were reactions to articles in t...
