I was born in Bromley, Kent, and grew up in nearby Chislehurst - attending Sunday School at the Elmstead Lane Baptist Church where I was also a “Life Boy” (now known as Anchor Boys).

Some years later I was living in Chadwell Heath (Essex) and it was there, in 1977, that I discovered a personal faith and was baptised.

I moved to Whitstable in 1981 and was elected to the Diaconate the following year, becoming Church Secretary in 1985 - and have been busy ever since!

I worked for BT (British Telecom, not Baptist Times!) for 36 years, but took early retirement in 2000.  I’m now busier than ever helping people get the best out of their computers and designing the occasional web site - like this one!

I met my present wife, Beryl, when I lived in Chadwell Heath - she was a member of High Road Baptist Church - and we enjoyed a strange life, spending the first nine years of our married life travelling between Essex and Canterbury, where I had a flat.

However, in 2002, we sold our two flats and bought a house in Blean (near Canterbury) and are now living together!  Moving two homes into one was quite an exercise in logistics and we are still unpacking boxes but we now have more time to spend together - searching in card shops for birthday cards for one or other of our fourteen(!) grandchildren.