Editor of Merry Meet magazine Jerry Bird was born in Weston Village, just outside Bath in 1960. He has been at various times a pub manager, lorry driver, stone sawyer, photographer, museum technician, bookseller, musician, art dealer, guitar tutor and charity worker. He ran the Green Man Bookshop and Gallery in Eastbourne for several years and became something of a Pagan activist, organising events and festivals. He started Merry Meet Magazine in 1999