i am 66 years old married for 46 years I have 3 grown up children I left school at 15 with no qualifications I have worked for the last 30 years in my own business I owned a pet shop a garden centre and a woodwork shop so I never had time for writing I had a serious illness 4 years ago so I closed my business's down on new years day 2013 that is when I started to write I write short stories and poetry I write for charity