GP for 27 years then working with Fire and Rescue Services in East Sussex and Surrey in Occ Health since. Medic for Eastbourne Lifeboat since 76. Only one near drowning to date. Planning to learn to swim when I retire.

year, all live within staggering distance, working in engineering, police dog handling and construction respectively. Three and a bit grandchildren never out of the house. Chaos theory becomes chaos fact.

Still married to Jan but she doesn’t get complacent.

Medical degree has served me very well opening up lots of exciting doors. Dangling from helicopters over the English Channel never fails to stimulate the colon but I continue to decline the Coastguard offer to abseil down the cliffs at Beachy Head.

Walking on to the stage of The Barbican to receive an RNLI Gold Award from the the Duke of Kent was much scarier than a couple of near capsizes experienced  over the Beachy Head ledge when the tidal race was racing untidily.

Life continues to be fun, as I hope it is for you.