I was born in Portsmouth on the south coast of England at lunchtime on 7th November, 1957, the same day as the Museum of Modern Art was opened in New York in 1929. I left school at 16, a move prompted by the admission of girls. I have worked as an electronic engineer most of my life, and for about half of that have run my own companies. A vague competence has seen one of my designs feature occasionally on the CSI TV programs and sell to customers such as Lockheed and NASA. For 'fun' I studied for a Masters degree in art history which I attained in 2007. I left the UK in 2004 and have lived and worked in Singapore, Canada, and I have now resided in Saraburi, Thailand for over 7 years, with my wife, Ploy, and our two adopted dogs, Pinky and Perky. I started writing seriously once we were settled in Thailand, intially intending to write non-fiction books on art and electronics. Those books are still in t