Well, after nearly seven years with ExNet I've finally moved on (their newsfeed broke and never seemed to recover). Let's
see if Freeserve really do manage to provide something for (nearly) nothing.
Anyway, you can email Andrew or Debbie by sending mail to either 'Andrew' or 'Debs'
on Teabreak fsnet co uk. This page will, I dare say, shortly be removed!
Work
I've got a new job (although, given the frequency with which I update my webpage it
might be rather non-new by the time you read this). I work for Cadence Design Systems
(neé Symbionics), a design consultancy on the outskirts of Cambridge. (Yes, by the
way, they are recruiting).
I started there after six months of not working - out of choice! After living in
High Wycombe for four years, my wife, Debbie, and I packed in our jobs (mine at Trend Communications in Loudwater, near High Wycombe, and hers at Watlington County primary school) to
wander off around the world - well a few bits of it.
Before working at Trend I worked for Wandel & Goltermann, in Plymouth, who also make telecommunications test equipment.
I was sponsored through the Southampton University
Master of Engineering in Electronic Engineering course by Ferranti International. I survived the sourse, but sadly Ferranti didn't.
Life
Enough work! I have a life too. I was brought up near Stowmarket in Suffolk, on my
parents' farm. I went to school near Bury St. Edmunds.
In my first year at Southampton I was introduced to Aikido at the Southampton University Dojo (BUAF). When I started work in Plymouth I joined Plymouth Aikido Association
. After struggling for years to find a dojo near High Wycombe two came along at
the same time. I ended up with the Shinwakai
dojo in Beaconsfield (Yoshinkan Aikido). When we arrived in Cambridge one of the first things I did was check the Aikido search engine , from which I found the Cambridge Aiki-dojo. You might think that with such varied experience I'd be pretty good. You'd be
wrong.
In my second year a friend got me started in Church Bell ringing with Southampton University Guild of Change Ringers
. I kept at it and eventually became master of that guild. One of the traditions of
the guild was that we had a lot of 'groupies' who didn't ring but were involved socially.
When I was elected master, a couple of girls were elected 'official guild groupies'. Rather the worse for wear I explained to anyone who would listen that it was traditional
for the groupies to get off with the master. However I only managed to get off with
one, and Debbie hasn't let me go yet! While I was in High Wyombe, I rang at High Wycombe's pleasant twelve-bell tower (voted one of the friendliest 12-bell towers
in the country), part of The Oxford Diocesan guild. Now I'm in Cambridge, ringing at St Andrew's, Chesterton, and sometimes popping
along to Great St Mary's in the centre of Cambridge (also voted one of the frendliest
12-bell towers).
That's quite enough don't you think? Except for the obligatory picture:
This page was 
, using ClarisWorks 2 (now known as AppleWorks (a freebie at Apple Expo '95!) with the HTML Extension, and then hacked a bit with
BBEdit Lite. My browser of choice used to be, perhaps unexpectedly, Microsoft Internet Explorer for Macintosh, version 3.01, but now, with the increasing use made of the latest multimedia and
virtual reality technology on the web I find myself ever more appreciating the power
and simplicity of Lynx!