Author Biography
About The writer Who cares who I am? Just so the book can be neatly labelled and filed away?. I knew it! ...an evil anarchist! Who I am is not important here, except to show, perhaps, that I am serious, about these scribbles. So here goes... After a boring education (I did Eng. Lit. and a thesis on De-Schooling) I began a rather brilliant career as a layabout. Passing my idle hours on Adventure Playgrounds, Street Theater, Anti Nukes and Subversive Nonsense, . For several years I shared a magnificent squat in central Amsterdam, before definitively dossing down in Brixton, with a creditable six and a half years on the dole. While whiling away my life doing Squatters Aid, Pirate Radio and Partying I enjoyed superb park-view accommodation, and jotted down the first version of this book for the class-less Hooligan Press. Retiring extremely early to Barcelona beach, I was horrified to have to work and even pay rent. But then the occupations took off, and I ended up living in a 'Social Center' (on top of a mountain.). Here I play around with gardens and old cars, and, um, look after children and horses... I can cook a deadly vegetarian paella and my hobbies include solar-powered internet and, er, rooting in bins. We have a wizard windmill and dispose of excellent compost toilets. I do have one big son, who's 15 years old and speaks 4 languages (not all at once).
