I taught for a year as an untrained teacher at Thornlow School, Weymouth from September 1958. I then trained as a teacher at King Alfred's College, Winchester and studied Religious Studies and Music, qualifying in 1961. I taught for forty years at Hardley School, Holbury, Southampton and held the post of head of Religious Studies and was a Housemaster for seven years, Ket Stage 4 liaison, Upper School courses, Head of Pshe, Examinations Officer for 32 years and in my final years was senior teacher and member of the Senior Management team. At 60 I worked as a Librarian in a Sixty Form Library. I am now a School Governor thereby extending my association with the school to 48 years.

I joined the Meteorological Office from school and worked at various RAF bases in England and Germany until I retired in 2000.I finished up at HQ Strike Command at High Wycombe and was part of a team producing weather information for  the military in this country and overseas including the Falklands conflict  and First Gulf War. Moved to Bishop's Stortford for a couple of years to be near my daughter but got fed up with Ryanair flights in and out of Stansted so Janet and I moved to Chickerell - about a mile from where she was born.