I retired in 1995 to a life of golf, voluntary work and writing after a business life during which I delivered a series of talks to Rotary Clubs while travelling across the world to establish my chemical company. My first novel was published in 2015 and I was invited to read from a short memoir at the West Cork Literary Festival in 2017. I then wrote 'Charles and Charlie', book I of The Stoker Trilogy. Book II, 'The Tally Man', followed in 2022 and Book III, 'Acceptance', was released in 2024. Several of my poems have been published in various magazines and anthologies, and also online by The Society of Classical Poets. Recently, I completed my memoirs, and my current project is a series of three talks, with music, telling the story of Beethoven's life in terms of his development of classical music and the introduction of romanticism. The series consists of three talks, each of which will be a complete presentation of one to two hours.