I have a Diploma of Editing from the NZ Institute of Business Studies, a Bachelor of Music from Victoria University and a Graduate Diploma in Rural Studies from Massey University. 
I was Head of Music at Taradale High School before owning and managing a dairy farm and a beef block near Whanganui for over thirty years.

My first book, Making Waves, a biography of Captain Jock McGregor, Whanganui's first permanent immigrant settler, was published by Steele Roberts in 2004 and they published my second book, The Bennier Story, Wanganui 1917, in 2008, followed by a second edition of Making Waves in 2010. I wrote Nicola Sciascia 1840-1898 as an ebook, commissioned by Professor Piri Sciascia, in 2008 and in 2016 I self-published TOWNHALL, researching the relevant minute books held by the Whanganui District Council Archives to explain the evolution of Castlecliff and Gonville townships and the Borough of Eastbrook, and how the three amalgamated with Wanganui Borough in 1924.