Mark Head (1947 - and mostly still here) born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, of English parents, grew up all over the world but mainly in DunLaoghaire not far from the Forty Foot, a couple of stints in Kandy, one in Malaya during the time of the troubles, was sometimes asked politely to leave a lot of schools and sailed around the world a couple of times in real ships as a marine engineer and a tourist since it was noticed early I was good at fixing anything without necessarily knowing how to but somehow the ships I became chief engineer of never broke down and always returned to port in one piece. Ne...