About Me

I've fiddled with writing for some considerable time. Short stories at school. Beginnings of meaningful best sellers during fallow periods of employment. Poems when in love or angry. Blog articles about movies I've seen, loved, hated...awaited.

I've read two books about writing, and attended one course locally. I joined a course run by the Open University during the Pandemic. None of this has successfully triggered an organised and prize-winning torrent of words.

So, I'll just stick some of the fragments up here. I daresay I'll draw on my personal history as a son to thrice married parents; brother to five siblings, husband to my wife for over 40 years (and counting); father to two grown sons. And on my career as a teacher, headteacher, education adviser and now retiree.

Oh, you might be asking, "Why Clive Candy?" The answer is here:

https://www.clivecandy.co.uk/1940-1949/the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp-1943