First, I should introduce myself. I was for many years, 1980 -- 1999, a regular contributor to the magazines The Woodworker, Practical Woodworking, Traditional Woodworking, and various other titles which came and went or had a change of name. I wrote and illustrated single articles, some as part of a series, including one, Diary from a Country Workshop, in Practical Woodworking, which ran for almost ten years. During this time I also wrote several books - on country crafts and craftsmen, traditional woodcrafts, tools, furniture making, traditional country chairmaking, etc. I was a regular demonstrator at the annual Wood Shows in London and elsewhere and for some time was a competition's judge.

From my rural workshop in West Sussex to which I moved, from Manchester, in 1988 where I had been senior lecturer in City and Guilds Furniture Studies, I continued to make traditional style furniture and to teach at West Dean College, near Chichester. In addition, I ran my own courses in country chair making and wood carving, both nationally and internationally; America, Newfoundland, Canada, Ireland and frequently in Finland.