Aberdare-born, -educated, and life-experienced. After leaving secondary school, I worked in the civil service formulating and implementing Government policies in a portfolio that has included: Intellectual Property; UK Trade & Investment; Assistant Private Secretary to two secretaries of state; Assistant to the UK Governor at the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, reporting on both the UK stockpile of Fissile Material, and non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction; arranging Royal Family overseas tours; Personal Independence Payment Case Manager, and Court Presenting Officer.
I like autumn, bees, bimbles, birdsong, butterflies, charity, clouds, contemplation, daydreaming, dolphins, elephants, green tea, Iceland, innuendo, lighthouses, Marguerite daisies, mist, monasticism, NHS, orang-utans, Palestine, people-watching, photography, poetry, Pope John Paul I, pottering, praying, rain, rebellion, Remembrance, robins, royalty, seas, storms, St. Sebastian, sunflowers, Switzerland, theatre, travel, trees, UK armed forces, UK emergency services, Victorian & Edwardian days, volunteering, Welsh poppies.
