Born in the north of England at the outbreak of WWII. Educated at Brincliffe Art College, the old Bluecoat School, Psalter Lane in the 1950s to train as a graphic designer. Later studied for six years to obtain professional qualifications: (Dip.CAM) Diploma of Communications, Advertising & Marketing which stood me in good stead over the years.

Then I served two years National Service in The Royal Air Force serving with No. 19 Squadron Fighter Command stationed at RAF Church Fenton as an SAC Servicing Recorder on Hawker Hunter jet fighters. I am now a Veteran War Pensioner and member of the Royal British Legion, Nerja, Spain.

For ten years I played double-bass with many jazz groups backing well-known jazz musicians starting with a traditional New Orleans jazz band moving on to modern jazz following two years in the RAF playing in the station band. (Listen to Ray Brown playing Blue Monk.)

After leaving the RAF I met my wife. we married and now we have a grown-up family. I spent 10 years in newspapers with Thompson Regional newspapers working at newspapers all over Britain.

I worked for Reckitt & Colman, Norwich before starting my own business in London. I worked as Account Manager with two leading London advertising agencies. Finally I spent the last remaining years of my working-life working as freelance producer on various stage and TV presentations.

Initially I was diagnosed with MS at the National Hospital Queen Square. Ten years later I was forced to retire from full-time work. Despite MS and life in a wheelchair, my wife and myself have run a B&B, toured France, Spain, Majorca, Canary Is. and the Caribean and I have sailed aboard the STS "The Lord Nelson".

Because I was born in the Danelaw, because of my surname and because of my interest in The Viking Hypothethis connecting MS to a possible link to my Viking genes, I started researching The Vikings. Read about Viking voyages to Russia, Constantinople, Greenland and America. I'm also interted in history and in the Knights Templar in particular.

I have always been passionately fond of sailing since I was young. (Perhaps it's those Viking genes again!) My wife and I started sailing on the Norfolk Broads and I've been mad about yachts and sailing since I was young. I bought my first pocket-cruiser in the 1960s and sailed extensively on the east coast. As I became more experienced I sailed further afield to Holland and France sailing to Gibraltar and competing in the RYC Round Britain Yacht Race to raise money for the MS Society.

When first we visited Madrid in the 1970s we fell in love with Spain, its food, wine and people. Then I sailed to Gibraltar calling at La Coruña, Galicia. After many holidays on the Costa Blanca we bought a cortijo rustico in Andalusia in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas overlooking the Mediterranean spending winter there. Finally we emigrated to Spain.

When I'm not reading, writing or surfing the net. I enjoy listening to jazz or classical music, especially opera. I'm also interested in history and genealogy espcially where it relates to MS. If you want to know more about the origin of the Wilsons click here.