With the help of my e-reader I like read a historical, sc-fi, fantasy, classic, and thriller at the same time , as well as some poetry, non-fiction and a children's book. During a 20-year teaching career I wrote numerous poems, plays and stories for children, but rarely valued them or recorded them. It is only since retiring - originally in response to requests from former colleagues and pupils - that I began to write in (semi) earnest