The author (hiding behind tree on left)<\/em><\/p>\nBeing born in God’s Own Country (Yorkshire, obviously), and by the North Sea, was a gift in itself. Bleak purple moors, towering cliffs and enough\u00a0 history to start your own channel. I grew up in a village which was too small to have its own church or pub.\u00a0 I could walk past the mere where children drowned on a regular, if mostly mythical basis,\u00a0 along the gorse winds where the foxes lurked, and up to a three hundred foot drop of sheer white chalk above the basking rocks of the grey seals.<\/p>\n
My grandfather was a German prisoner in the Great War, after which he bizarrely joined the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. My father was an eccentric lighthouse keeper and gun dealer, and my mother worked harder than anyone to keep us from debtor’s gaol. I am six foot tall, good-natured and have my own beard. What more could you ask?<\/p>\n
Well, you could ask for a publisher, but I suppose that this renaissance is better late than never. Who knows what might come along as a result of this website?<\/p>\n
Arthritic fingers, probably. And a few followers who think that my stuff’s OK as long as you don’t have to pay for it. Harrumble!<\/p>\n
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