Born in Singpore and evacuated just before the capitulation to the Japanese in 1942, I returned to Malaya after the war before three years later returning to the UK for some education. I joined the BBC from school and now, after many years in the media, I am retired and have lived in Kensington since 1976, now with a partner for the last 30 years. Currently, I look after and manage just this apartment, which is a private home. I am a retired television broadcast executive, with a CV that includes being a BBC television newsreader, a British America's Cup sailor, an owner of a television channel and a volunteer reader helper with Beanstalk. I also created and run an online virtual botanical art gallery for my mother, Barbara Everard.
For my own R and R holidays, I like to cruise, preferably on smaller ships such as those with Windstar (Wind Surf, Star Pride). So far, I have traveled from Singapore to Phuket, several times in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean; South America and Cape Horn, the Falkland Islands and through the Panama Canal to Nicaragua and French Polynesia; South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique and a river cruise on the Rhone with Scenic. But, if I were to choose my favourite place to holiday, it would be on the Cote d'Azur near Cannes at the now much refurbished L'Ermitage de l'Oasis at La Napoule, near Cannes. The delights of places like Biot, Mougins and St Paul de Vence, never fail to disperse my stresses!