I was born and brought up in south-west London, but have lived in and around Exeter, in Devon, for the past twenty-one years.

I have spent large parts of my life watching sport at such famous venues as Lord's, Twickenham, Cardiff Arms Park, the Millennium Stadium, Parc des Princes, the Stade de France, Fenway Park, Lansdowne Road, Murrayfield, Kingsholm, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the San Siro, Newlands, Wimbledon and Wembley.  These days, depending on the time of year, I can usually be found either on Gimblett's Hill at the County Ground in Taunton, home of Somerset CCC, or at Sandy Park, home of the Exeter Chiefs.

I have been writing for many years.   Mostly about cricket, but also about my other sporting passion, rugby union, and more recently, about other experiences, including some of the periods I spent travelling independently in Europe and America in the late 1980s.  

My cricket writing has appeared in The Cricket Statistician, The Journal of the Cricket Society, The Cricketer International, Wisden Cricket Monthly and Cricket Lore, and in a range of specialist historical journals. 

Since 2006 I have been writing the cricket blog Different Shades of Green.