Writing was always waiting for me as a latent interest but for most of my life it had to compete with the demands of work and family, sporting interests and the outdoors. Increasing geriatricity has done away with the need to work, family have all departed and sporting interests have sunk to a trickle of ping pong and a semi organized scattering of lawn bowls, so what better to spend my time on than a little gentle writing. Thus it is that I now have a computer full of short stories and poems, an autobiography that I have inflicted on my family and a short novel and a volume of “Kiwi Yarns” that I endeavour to persuade people to read. So what better than to join a group of likeminded people at Waitakere Writers, good people whose company I have enjoyed now for about fifteen years.