My home town is St Neots in Cambridgeshire, UK. It's a typical English market town and has a population of around 30 000.
I'm retired now, but used to work for Unilever on web technologies and before that worked at LARS, a horticultural research station near Bristol. I'm married to Donna with two daughters, two sons-in-law, three granddaughters and a grandson who all live near the beautiful city of York in the north of England.I follow Jesus and recognise him as my King. I'm in regular contact with other members of his kingdom in this little corner of England and we meet to share our lives and hearts together as often as we can. There's no organisation or structure beyond an open network, we are just one big, happy family.
My interests include life and the way things work including archaeology, astronomy, church, family, history, photography, science, technology, travel, and more...
Contact details
- Email - chris@scilla.org.uk
- Facebook - http://facebook.scilla.org.uk/
- Google+ - http://plus.scilla.org.uk/
- Twitter - http://tweet.scilla.org.uk/
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| Bibury, a Cotswold Village |
Links
- Gospels - Daily readings with comments
- Home page - A starting point for articles and more
- JDMC - Following Jesus, a rethink
- Photos - A selection of my photos
- Quote - Sayings and writings that I really like
- Toast - Places I've been, people I've met, thoughts
The Cotswolds
I was born and brought up in Cirencester, a pretty Cotswold market town with a history back to at least Roman times. I'm one of four children; Dad helped with the family business and Mum was from Northern Ireland. School was followed by four years at Bath University.
Career
For much of my life I worked at Long Ashton Research Station (LARS, now closed). I began there as a biologist working on willow and poplar growth, then moved to work on plum and apple pollen tube growth and fruit development, next via plant hormone research to electron microscopy, then X-ray microanalysis, and eventually computing. Today, the site near Bristol is a housing development. I left LARS in 1998 to work as a web developer for Unilever. I retired in 2010.
Church
Most people think in terms of an old building with a tower, but that's not really what I mean by 'church'. For me, church is a community, people interrelating with and caring for one another. The essence of church is that it is active in society, representing Jesus in daily life. I'm heavily involved and love every minute of it.
Why 'Scilla'?
You might be wondering about the domain name 'Scilla'. This is a Latin term for a kind of bluebell. Donna and I love bluebells and our front garden is full of them, growing as a carpet in the shade of trees and bushes every spring.
When we chose a domain name for this and other websites, we thought 'Scilla' would be just perfect.
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