Why?

Now I've got over the excitement of creating my own blog a little bit about myself:

I live and work in the historic city of York, am married to Clare and have 3 children (Oli - recently graduated in Auto Engineering from Loughborough, Lucy - very soon to be off to Sheffield Hallam to study Nursing, and Nick - in his second year in sixth form and with no idea what he wants to do!).

My day job is with the University of York as an administrator. I also teach lifelong learning courses - mainly to do with Wine Appreciation, but also Food Hygiene and occasionally licensing legislation. In addition I spend quite a proportion of my 'spare time' training members of the hotel and catering trade in all aspects relating to wines & spirits.

The involvement with Lifelong Learning has been going on for nearly 20 years and I have developed a keen interest in the education of adults (especially non-vocational education).

This is an area of my life I want to take further forward and am hoping that the Ultraversity course will help in some way towards this.

First Post

Hopefully this will be the First and not the Last Post.

Simply to say hi to everybody signed up on Cohort 6 with Ultraversity.

If you can read this then a technological miracle has occured and I have managed to 'create' my blog (with a great deal of help from my friends!!)