Oh goodness me, where on earth do I begin. So, as stories need a beginning, a middle and an end, lets work on that principle.

 I was born July 4^th, 1950 in Huddersfield Yorkshire. My mum was a Yorkshire lass, my dad came over to the UK from Poland during WWII with the Free Polish Airforce. He was later commissioned into the Royal Air Force.

 Naturally as a ‘forces brat’ we never stayed in one place for very long. When asked about my education I simply say “travelling the world”.  Oh yes, during the 60’s (yes I do remember them) my big brother David had a band so, yep it was natural that I got involved in music playing bass, rhythm and lead guitar for a number of bands over the years but, though I loved it, I really couldn’t take it seriously.

 After graduating I sort of continued ‘travelling the world’ living in many countries where I quickly learned to soak up the culture, “when in Rome do as the Romans do” as they say. Now, I live a semi-retired life in Idaho, USA, writing my Adventures of Hot Rod Todd children’s story books that are based on a real life litter of Siberian Huskys born on March 14^th 2019 to proud parents, my Dam, Empress Maya and my Sire Damien Czar.

 So, on the way to ending up in the USA, I worked as a Press Photographer escalating to Group Chief Photographer for a group of NW England Newspapers. During this period I also freelanced with a number of angling (fishing) newspapers / magazine both in the UK and Europe which was a lot of fun.

 I then went into a period kinda wandering round Europe doing a bit of marketing here and a bit of marketing there as they say. I loved my time in Portugal, Spain and particularly the Loire Valley in France – omg the wines ………………………… say no more.

 So back to England I went into the Printing Industry working for companies in London and the South East of England which was a lot of fun but you know, I simply wasn’t cut out for the 24/7 wearing suits lifestyle so when the opportunity arose to move out to Idaho in the USA in 2000 I jumped at it. I simply loved the lifestyle, the ‘quality of life’ and, mmmm ended up getting married to this New Yorker whom I tell everyone ambushed me - honestly she did but heck even then she knew what was better for me than I did and, 'she who must be obeyed' as I endearingly call her, totaly agrees.

 So we’ve had the ‘beginning’ of the story. I’m currently in the ‘middle’ of the story and having a blast writing the children’s story books and mmmmm heck who know’s when the story will end.