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This site has no pretension to excellence or slickness, for it is just for friends who have been invited to share a few of my interests. Of course, web-sites are generally open to all possible visitors so there is also a welcome to anyone who stumbles in to this one. The site has grown in complexity and some of the former content of this page has now been moved to linked sub-sections.
For stumblers who don't know me, I am just an ordinary bloke, retired, well past my allotted three-score years and ten, living in a small detached bungalow in north-west Kent, England. I live there with one son (the other two live away from home), a grand piano, three or four computers, about two thousand books, several guitars and other instruments and - an awful lot of junk. Sadly, my wife, Helen, died in March last year (2008); we had been married for thirty-eight years.
With a B.Sc. in Physics from Queen May College, London and an M.Sc. in Solid State Physics, I was on the academic staff for 41 years in the University of Greenwich (formerly Woolwich Polytechnic and Thames Polytechnic). In the School of Materials Science and Physics, I taught physics, elementary astronomy and elementary mathematics. During my last seven years I taught software engineering (including computer graphics), in the School of Computing and Mathematics.
At different times, I have taken an interest in a wide range things: archaeology, history, classical music, opera, ballet, judo, aikido, flamenco and spanish guitar, choral and folk singing, chess, bookbinding, carpentry, Go, dinghy-sailing, ski-ing, canoeing, scouting, .22 rifle-shooting, walking, photography, bird-watching, competitive swimming and water-polo, various foreign languages, cooking, English Country-, American Square-, Scottish- and Ballroom-dancing, computer programming and graphics. From this large collection it may be correctly deduced that I was never very good at any of them.
One of my interests, well known to my friends, is Morris Dancing, or, more strictly now I am old, playing concertina for the Morris. So, I provide a link to the Wadard Morris Men site that I set up and maintained for several years. It is now maintained by the current Squire (chairman) and it can also be reached using: http://www.wadard.co.uk/ This, in turn, contains links to some particular Morris sites and the rest of the Morris world, as represented on the Internet.
Since I retired from teaching, a another interest has been in VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language) and it is this which originally encouraged me to set up this site, since friends had asked to see my efforts in the genre. These efforts have lapsed in recent years but I am currently trying to revive them.