"This is my autobiography written by me. The story begins in 1956 when I was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. They were early days of wander adventure and excitement as I grew up in a farming community. That was soon shattered when we moved to Dunedin. I hated the place and at age nine ran away from home but was caught three days later by police in Lyttleton, approximately 400 km to the north.

My college schooling, apprenticeship as a carpenter, falling in love, excelling as a rugby player and freestyle wrestler not to mention the finer points of altercations with the law due to fighting in the streets and in general just being a prick occupied my teen years which I spent in Nelson.

My yearning for adventure and excitement first took me to Australia. Employed in a variety of jobs; Bellboy at a hotel within Sydney’s Kings Cross red-light district, traveling salesman in Central Queensland just to mention only two.

1979 I found myself as a recruit in the British Parachute Regiment where I passed the P Company selection.

During the following thirteen years I bounced around NZ and Australia a little like a balloon out of control. I worked a variety of jobs in cities such as Perth and Auckland, mining camps in NW Australia, suffered a slight mental breakdown, rekindled a past romance and became engaged. Engagement collapsed after five years and I found myself employed as a cook on a Tug Boat operating off the coast of NZ.

It was here I finally found what it was that I was looking for and over the next fifteen years whilst employed by several different companies and on different oceans I worked my way up to the position of Captain. Working a roster of six weeks on and six weeks off allowed me to spend a large amount of time in Thailand and latterly Cambodia which was where I moved to after retiring from the sea, but my time in Cambodia belongs in another book.

It didn’t matter if it was work or play whatever I took on I had to climb the ladder to the very top. This at times alienated me from friends and stopped me raising my own family. I was always the leading wolf or loan wolf but seldom part of the pack."