Author of Educating Slaves,The Devil's Tattoo Part one and Two,and A Tengu's Tale.

Lover of Dalmatian dogs, gardening, chess, backgammon, world travelling ,Georgian architecture,cricket,fine wine and Belgian chocolate and all things Japanese.

My wife Yuki is a Japanese cookery teacher.

I have worked in Iran for the Shah of Iran,worked on a nudist beach in Cape Town and a Kentucky Fried Chicken place in Durban,South Africa, a private English teacher in Brazil,a model and DJ in Japan,a film extra in The Revenge of the Pink Panther in Hong Kong and a deputy headmaster at a school for bullied children in Norwich.

I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous.

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