I was an easy birth for a first, this happened on 3rd September 1963. I've always been one of those creative types. From my earliest memories I recall drawing, writing and making things. These interests have been with me all my life. Schooling in the then sleepy village of Harvington, near Evesham, was a delightful rural setting for a perfect childhood, until one day... ...My academic and artistic future seemed in doubt, when I was beaten up at high school in Evesham and suffered two brain haemorrhages and my schooling started all over again. I was changed forever in the way that I view life.