Interests

I enjoy leisurely and uncompetitive outdoor activities, especially sailing and '...simply messing about in boats...', but also cycling and walking. Indoors, I paint, read and write prose, or work on programs and systems for my own amusement.

I'm involved in informal voluntary groups considering the economic development of remote rural regions of Scotland, and am a trustee of South West Community Woodlands Trust, a voluntary forestry development charity working on native species woodland projects in Dumfries and Galloway