About Me.

I was born at an early age in a north Cheshire village which has since become a part of the County of Greater Manchester.

With an education at The King's School in Macclesfield I was still unsure of what I wanted to do as a career. I had a greater interest in plants than anything else, which led me to consider landscape architecture.

An architect friend advised me to become an architect first, then do landscape as a post graduate. This could mean eleven years at college. However I commenced on the architecture course and by the time I graduated I did not feel like setting off on another four years of study.

After a mere two years in an architect's practice I met one of my old college tutors in the theatre one evening and he invited me to join him on the urban design course which he was starting in the comming academic year. That is how I came to be an Urban designer.

I will admit I found it to be much more suited to me and more fulfilling than architecture per se.

Then I spent nearly eighteen years working in the Planning Department in Manchester. Whilst I was there I embarked on yet another course which took me in a totally different direction and I became a yoga teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga.

This, I have to admit, is even more fulfilling than the other areas of study. I would even go so far as to say that yoga is the only subject which is both voluntary and compulsory for everyone but not everybody. If that confuses you, read on.

You need to know about yoga to understand that statement.