David and I met in the late 1960s when we were running a drop-in centre for homeless people.  Since 1995 I have cooperated with David’s woodcarving - I design and often colour some of the things he makes - the most recent being Resisting Tyranny, the title sculpture for the Bonhoeffer 2006 exhibition.

I earn a free-lance living these days, occasionally as an illustrator of campaigning and educational material, and more often as a consultant. I work with voluntary organisations and others in the fields of health and social care, homelessness and housing, community development and, sometimes, religious organisations. I help groups prepare strategic and business plans, undertake social audits, clarify their values, get their management committees and teams working effectively, and write reports. I provide external supervision, and evaluate organisations and their services.

My free-lance work developed from 1983, alongside employed positions, including Director of Mind in Tower Hamlets for five years. Since 2001 I have worked entirely on a free-lance basis. On a voluntary basis, I am a long-standing member of a NHS Research Ethics Committee and a board member of a specialist housing association.

I’ve never quite worked out where any of this fits in with the PhD in Physical Chemistry which I obtained in 1972.