About

So who am I and what do I do.

Who I am is mainly private, as I do not like a large amount of my personal data to be on line.
Well I am of male gender and that’s enough to know, though they did put me in a dress for my Christening, but that was common practice way back then. I am told I peed on my older Sister at the Christening, so a belated apology to Sis.
I was born after the Second World War (as if that actually solved the worlds problems).
I grew up in a time when a child of 7 could travel around London on their own and got most of the best bits of my education by going to the London Science and Natural History Museums, for the free lectures and demonstrations and when they took pity on me the techs let me in the workshops and labs “god bless you long dead gents”, health and safety would not allow this today.
School was boring, especially as most of the teachers and family believed I was useless or dimwitted.
Work came next, you could get work in the 60’s without exams.
So I started as a Medical Laboratory trainee at a large London hospital.
Then I got married, still with the same good lady now and would do that part of my life again, if she would still agree to live with me.
Then I ran a drapers shop for 5 years.
Then finished training as a Medical Laboratory Scientist specialising in Histo Pathology.
Total Life change next, went to work for London Transport Executive in the Physics laboratory following my hobby of electronics and being paid to get better at it.
34 years latter I retired with along service award and a pension and still with a great love of electronics and engineering.
Decided that 65 years of London was enough and moved to the South coast Village of Emsworth in Hampshire, England.
I have spent the last year and 3 months refurbishing and rebuilding our chalet bungalow to be as eco friendly as possible, which explains many of the blogs to date.

So now the fun starts because I can play with my electronic toys almost as much as I want and surprisingly find that there are people out there that find my adventures with quirky inventions interesting.

You may come across my Avatar Mr Crusty elsewhere, as his persona seems to fit well with my grump old man attitude.

Best to you all and leave a comment if you like or don’t like.
Mr Crusty
“I fear the clowns will eat me”