The author is a retired physician and university professor turned horticulturalist and humourist. He was born in South Africa where he was an athletics Full Blue at university, followed the Australians Ron Clarke (1956) and Herb Elliott (1957) as the world fastest junior miler, and qualified as a medical doctor in 1961. He later graduated DPhil at Oxford University, earned a DSc degree and became a Fellow of colleges of physicians in three countries. He pursued an international career in clinical pharmacology but spent much of his time teaching and attending to black patients in what is now Kwa-Zulu Natal. He emigrated to Ireland in 1991. He continued research work and teaching in Cork and settled in County Waterford, where he still lives.
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