I was born in Hertfordshire, England, in 1943, and was raised and educated in South London. I left the city smoke behind when I got married in 1969 and moved with my wife to the ‘Hatters’ town of Luton, Bedfordshire, where we had our daughter. Later, we moved to the Isle of Wight and have stayed for close to 40 years. The Isle of Wight is beautiful diamond shaped island situated about four miles across the Solent from Portsmouth and Southampton mainland, in the County of Hampshire, UK.