When not taking pictures he plagues his family by playing guitar badly; a cunning ploy that ensures his wife and three daughters actively encourage him to leave the house – thus allowing him to ‘bunk off ’ domestic duties and chase trains without a guilty conscience! Without too much provocation he will burst into a eulogy over the steamy wonder of locomotive sheds – and threaten anyone in earshot with a slide show. His first book for Halsgrove was Railway Moods - Devon followed by Last Days of Steam on the Southern Region.