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ABOUT ME

       Before I go any further, anything on these pages in italics is probably a clickable link to something else. Most of the images are 'clickable' too.

       Born November 18th, 1940 in an English pub in the middle of an air-raid. Retired, but not tired! Native of Daventry, England. Emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1968, became a citizen of this great country in 1982. Live in Southern California.

       My trade was a Tool & Die designer and builder. I was never really in love with the business, but it was like being a gold miner - a drag going down into that hole every day but satisfied with what came out of it! Grateful for life dropping a 'plum' into my lap - more on that later.

       What interests me? Family, Faith, fishing, gardening, reading, cooking, people, traveling - especially in our Airstream, my Vardo. Oh, yes, and writing.

       Athletically I've done Rugby football, backpacking, tennis and triathlons - which included a lot of insane training. A point of trivia, do you know how Rugby football got its name? First played in the town of Rugby, England. 

       Now, about the 'plum,' I am referring to a gift that appeared late in life - writing. I did not wake up one morning and decide that I was going to write a book, although I have always had a yen to do so, it was more of a gradual evolution. My first stab at it came through a local newspaper's writing competition, you were given a picture, first line of the story, then you had to compose a story of no more than 500 words. I dashed one off in about two hours, sent it in - it was published. Success, or so I thought! Story number two did not fly though - I thought it was the better of the two. 

       C'est la vie!

       Events now sidelined me from writing for a number of years, but you don't want to hear about them, suffice to say I have, with the Grace of God, surmounted. 

       Events now drew me back to writing. A request from daughter-in-law, Anita, for a grandparent's memories set the wheels in motion. Then came 'Ancestry.com' to satisfy mine, Anita and sister Anne's thirst for our ancestors. The Boswells became 'people of interest.' Sister June, family historian, remarked that they were 'Irish Tinkers and horse traders.' Irish Tinkers? That's gypsies, or more properly known as Romany, Roma or Rom. According to 'Ancestry's' analysis of my DNA it stretched from England, all across Europe (and North Africa) into India. That was the migratory route of the Romany when they were forced out of India centuries ago.

       I have Romany blood.

       The rest is history.

       And Geoffrey Chaucer is one of my ancestors. 

 

Dza Devlesa!

        

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