A founding member of the Ellipsis group and another offspring of Dorothy Schwarz's Creative Writing classes. I do it (writing) for fun but still harbour the daydream of becoming a published author of gritty and powerful short stories drawn from a still photographic memory of a Scottish childhood and education followed by thirty years working in overseas development in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Being in Ellipsis keeps the daydream ticking over while I also juggle being a husband, father and allotment holder who knows how to string his onions if not his words.