About Me

• Ian to his friends - born 23rd May 1951 - A Tuesday - At Exmouth in Devon.
  
  
• Typical post war baby - not much to eat - Just a poor boy from a poor family - Parents in Royal Navy during the war.
  
  
• One sister Penny - Educated at Bramdean School Exeter and Kelly College Tavistock, Englands major minor public school.
  
  
• Left School in 1969 and started work for English China Clays in St Austell Cornwall.
  
  
• Starting salary - £14 per week and had to pay £8 per week bed and breakfast.
  
  
• First car - Green mini van - First female conquest
  
  
• Messed up all his Surveying exams by correspondence so enrolled at Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1972 to study Urban Land Administration - Turned 21 that year.
  
  
• Failed to see Humble Pie in concert that summer at Southsea Pier Hall as someone telephoned a bomb warning just as Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton were about to take the stage.
  
  
• Messed up all his Urban Land Administration exams - left Portsmouth Polytechnic and went off to London to seek fame and fortune - 40 years later found fortune but fame is still waiting round the corner!!