Who am I?

On a creative front, having discovered that despite my passion, I have no talent for music, I went into the realm of writing. This blog and my books are the result of all those years of writing. I don’t do it for the money or fame; I do it because I’ve got something to say, the ideas and passion – and I’m driven.

Writing has become my life.

In the 1970s the energy and creativity dropped out of the counterculture. Earning a living loomed and I went into teaching where I stayed true to my ideals. I extolled the virtues of fun, freedom and the joy of creativity. I brought a bit of colour into the profession and did things my way. I must have been successful because I rose up to Headteacher and my school became one of the best in the country. It’s Open, Caring, Friendly ethos was mine and I proved it worked. If you treated young people respectfully and made learning fun everything would work. It did.

During the course of my teaching career I built up a large number of books. I wrote whatever took my fancy. I never wrote for financial gain or to get famous; I wrote what I was interested in, moved by or felt the urge to do. I produced Sci-Fi to alternative fiction and Rock biography and history – whatever I enjoyed. I always harboured a desire to make a living out of writing but was always more than content to be a teacher.

To be a teacher is a privilege. A teacher is the equivalent of the tribes shaman; the holder of wisdom, dispenser of knowledge. I was happy with that.

You can read about my school and how I led it to three outstanding Ofsted’s while still being true to my ideals in ‘A Passion for Education – the Story of a Headteacher’.