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I'm Ian, a man married and living in Williamstown, a bayside suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

Am now classed as a 'senior citizen', but not retired.

Have all my life enjoyed reading poetry, and in recent decades reciting it.

There have been periods in my life when I have written poetry, and too many long periods when I haven't. AP has been a timely spur.

When I'm not writing, or walking the dog, or helping with home duties, I work as a lawyer. Have heard and agree with most of the lawyer jokes.

My perennial enemy is the typo gremlin, who does not scruple to move the letters around in a document after I have checked it. I believe in being "alert but not alarmed in the war against error".

Some favourite sayings:

"Only a mediocre man is at his best all the time".

"Do not take your dog's admiration as conclusive proof that you are marevllous."