Andrea and I first met each other in 1995 and I certainly didn't realise quite what a large impact she would have on my life then. Now, almost nine years later we are married and living in southern England.

Back in 1995 I was a student in Leicester and doing the usual sort of geeky things Software Engineering students seemed to do with their evenings, waste time on the Internet. One evening Andrea appeared in the seedy place my friends and I chatted and things sort of went off like a firework from there.

Passion and love seem to be such jaded terms, certainly here in the UK it is something we all keep private for goodness knows what reasons. My love and passion for Andrea is something I still feel I want to shout from the roof tops, even if it was to a chorus of disapproving tuttings and mutterings it would inevitably lead to.

The web being such that it is, wouldn't be a web without some links somewhere. If you would like to get to know some of my friends, you may like to look at their home pages:

Andrea Ayers - My partner
Alan Esplen - My father
Stacy Psaros (Pandora)
Eagle Archambeault (Dream)
Ian Jeffray (Nutter)
Derek Piper (Del)
Simon Amor (Vlad)
Oliver Bollman (Kannik)
Ken Jones (Sysop)

Ever since my childhood I have had a facination with mechnical objects, perhaps mostly spurred on by my father's enthusiasm for Meccano, which I have inherited. Sadly I do not have the time to spend on the hobby as I would like.

This grounding lead me to computers I suppose and that is where I dedicate more time to than any other hobby. I enjoy writing code, I wouldn't really say I am "in to" computers, although I do try and follow the Industry, mostly I am interested in writing software to get them to work for me.

Both these hobbies require some degree of imagination and I suppose that is also why I am such an avid reader, my wife and I enjoy an extensive book collection which gets added too steadily.