In a nutshell

I’m a guy from Lanarkshire in Scotland who somehow ended up living on the South Coast of England and owning a group of computer businesses in Hampshire. I am an eater of curries, a lover of flamenco and generally all things Spanish, a terrible road runner and future circumnavigator.

I played in a cool rock ‘n’ roll band

A while back, I played bass and sung in a three-piece rock, pop and Indie band called Daphne Don’t Float.

I used to be a latch key kid – but now I’m a boomer

A while back, I was right in the middle of two generations.  Depending on who you asked, I was either one of the first people from what is called Generation X (the latch key kids) or maybe I just caught the tail end of the preceding Baby Boomers generation. Most places you looked had me down as a Generation X-er, but nowadays they seem to have moved me to the end of the Boomers. I’m okay with that. It’s the generation that laid the foundations for the amazing World in which we now live. We went to the moon. Invented rock ‘n’ roll.

I used to be a swimmer

I mean, I can still swim, but what I mean is I used to be a competitive swimmer. A pretty good one at that. I learned to swim at the age of four in a hotel swimming pool in Ibiza. I went on to hold a national junior 50 freestyle record while coming 3rd in the men’s Scottish Championships in Edinburgh in the late seventies. I didn’t make the grade in the senior ranks though, as I’m 5’11” an all the top swimmers are giants. I did captain the Scottish water polo team later on and played in the UK national team. Nowadays, bobbing around in a hotel pool in Tenerife is good enough for me – but I can still do 25 metres in sub 13 seconds. Have a try at doing that!