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Just a little bit about myself
As my picture shows I am a tubby, balding 77 year old who has done a great variety of things in my life to date, culminating
in the formation of the Brent Lodge Wildlife Hospital, which became a charity in 1978 and cares for an average of around 3,000
birds and small mammals every year.
Born in 1930 in Manchester, I spent my main school days at Ashville College in Harrogate. My first job was as a technician
in a path. lab, but the poor pay and prospects in the health service in the 1950's made me try my hand at my hobby of photography.
I spent the next 15 or so years involved in managing photographic shops until an accidental involvment in rescuing a Sparrow
started me into wildlife rehabilitation in which I was directly involved for the next 35 years. I retired from this about
5 years ago, although I am still involved in the administration of the Trust. My proudest moment came in June 1998, when I
was awarded an M.B.E. for my services to the wildlife hospital.
My hobbies include gardening, spinning and weaving and laterly I have taken up woodturning, which is at present
my all consuming interest.
Exercise
Although exercise is something I partake of as infrequently as
possible, I do try to go swimming in a local pool at least once a week followed by a stimulating coffee and equally stimulating
conversation with my friends and other members of the group.
I also am a member of a local short mat bowling club and manage to go along weekly.
I enjoy the bowls and again the conversation not to mention the tea and biscuits in the middle of the session.
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Favorites
I spend a lot of my time reading.
Some of my favourite authors are:--
Carl Hiaasen, Bernard Cornwell, Bill Bryson,
Gervase Phinn, Jean M Auell and of course the late Ellis Peters, whose stories about the Monk at Shrewsbury
Abbey, Brother Cadfael, have never been beaten.
My taste in music varies from the lighter classics, especially Chopin, Beethoven, Sibelius, Elgar etc. To the easy to
listen pops of the 50's and 60's including such singers as Sinatra, Nat King Cole and many of their contemporaries who were
real musicians.
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I am the youngest of the three boys and two girls in our family, Sadly both girls have now died, but my two elder brothers
are still in the land of the living. The eldest, John, was a solicitor for 50 years in the midlands. (Sadly,
two days after writing this, John passed peacefully away in hospital in Sutton Coldfield, a few weeks short of
his 90th birthday). He will be sorely missed by us all. My other brother, Don, was an architect for many
years and has been involved in the design of Harlow New Town and Telford, to name but a few.
I have numerous nephews and nieces who also have numerous progeny.
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My reason for building this site is partly vanity, but mostly to thank all the
people in my life who have made what ever I have achieved possible and of these most of all my dearest wife Yvonne, without
whose help I would long ago given up and is resposible for the fact that the Brent Lodge Wildlife Hospital is still an on
going entity after a back garden venture started by accident 37 years ago
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