1965
Born.
1976
Achieved 4th place medal in the Coventry & District Chess Congress in the U14 section. Medal presented by councillor Woodcock from Nuneaton.
Came 1st in the Ernesford Grange Gymnastics Club competition.
Won the Coventry & District Chess Congress U14 Best Game Award.
1982
Umpired first top division netball match in Coventry league: Henley 'A' v GEC 'B' (thanks to Sandra Price for asking me to umpire).
1983
Member of Bablake School Chess 'A' Team that won Division One.
Started degree course in School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at University of Sussex.
Netball umpire for Henley College U21 v Oxford & Cambridge U21.
Qualified as Preliminary level netball coach.
Failed the Intermediate umpiring test for the first time.
1984
Netball umpire for final of CUWISCO national netball tournament: Alpha v Oasis
Netball umpire for County match: Sussex County 2nd v Middlesex County 2nd (the highest level match I ever umpired - thanks to Anne Lenton and Sharon Garton).
1985
Failed the Intermediate netball umpiring test for third and final time.
1986
Netball umpire for finals of Sussex Cup (Burgess Hill v WSIHE) and Sussex Plate (Saltdean v Preston).
1987
Graduated from University of Sussex with BSc Computer Science.
Umpired last netball game (I miss it and still dream about umpiring to this day!).
1988
Started work at Sun Alliance.
1990
Moved to Sun Alliance Head Office as Business Systems Analyst
1993
Move to Sun Alliance Information Systems Division as Junior Developer.
1994
Progressed to Developer/Analyst
Sun Alliance - With Steve Vincent: designed and implemented re-write of Household Re-rating process in Stage 2 using modern design techniques. A very successful sub-system that was later used by the GOLDEN system.
1995
Bought our first house.
Progressed to Senior Developer/Analyst
1996
Ran a two-term Adult Education Course in Intermediate to Advanced Excel.
1997
Royal & SunAlliance - promoted from Senior Software Developer to Technical Specialist.
1998
Married Karin.
1999
Left Royal & SunAlliance to work full-time on my own business.
2004
Sold my business to RM plc.
2008
Hospitalised in Spain with anxiety as inability to sleep spiralled out of control resulting in cumulative sleep deprivation.
2010
Alfie, a black Labrador Retriever puppy, added to our family.
2012
Visit Las Vegas, Hong Kong and Australia and attend Neolie and David's wedding.
2013
Ceased working for RM.
2014
Cycled from East Preston to Brockenhurst in the New Forest. Distance 60 miles.
2017
Cycled part of the Camino de Santiago.
2019
Diagnosed with diabetes.
2020
Got down to a healthy weight.