Methods, approaches, influences & areas of interest 

Growing up a stone's throw from the River Mersey - being an altar boy & (no longer) believing every word - Christian Brothers' school - temporal lobe epilepsy - spending several hours a day with variously aged children as a Steiner-Waldorf teacher for 16 years - Diatonic resonance - Fibonacci - 2 years in Florida in disbelief at the possibility of the Banyan tree - drawing chalk labyrinths on city streets & busking at their centre - reading - (as one of many  latent strands connected with being dismantled from Catholicism) - with my wife - on our honeymoon - Steiner's The Book of Revelation on Walberswick beach - encountering Sufism (The Masnavi - The Conference of the Birds and so on) and all that that entails - reading Wu Cheng-en's Journey to the West unexpurgated - Borges' Book of Sand - The Third Policeman - Thomas Tallis' organ lesson - Da Vinci's 6 knots -