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WELCOME TO SCRAPYARD SUMMER

I am a disgustingly-healthy 77-year old suffering from Dysthymia. Having tried several cognitive treatments and various medications over the years, I eventually participated in an extended series of UK NHS group-psychotherapy sessions which have definately helped ease my condition.
I would recommend this therapy to any other sufferers of this miserable long term malady.

My work history, prior to retirement, was fairly staid: over twenty years in the Royal Naval Submarine Service and twenty-five years as a Technical Writer for a semiconductor design and manufacturing company.

My other interests are: As a licensed UK Amateur Radio Operator (Class A - G4ZZL)
and Amateur Dramatics; I also aim to master the harmonica and sketching.

I started writing for pleasure when, in retirement, I joined our local U3A Creative Writing group in 2013 and, finding it relaxing and enjoyable, I have decided to take my interest in creative writing further.

The name of this website, Scrapyard Summer, as well as showing my short stories, also reflects the title of my first venture into novel writing.

I hope that you enjoy the stories available on this website; if you would like to use or publish any of these, please contact me via author@scrapyardsummer.uk. Happy reading.

I am making full use of Facebook in my research for the writing of Scrapyard Summer.
I am grateful to the many diesel submarine veterans in the sharing of their extensive knowledge to refresh my memory on the workings and operations of a 'diesel boat'.
Research is fun. I am enjoying blending actual dates, fictional ages and geographical locations into the fabric of the story.
Although a work of fiction, I want the reader to believe: "that could happen!" so the ages of the characters are very important.
One of the biggest challenges that I have encountered so far whilst writing Scrapyard Summer is aptly naming the many characters that will eventually inhabit the novel.
In the case of Scrapyard Summer there are a lot of interacting characters to keep tabs on; my current method entails the use of an awful lot of index cards.