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 And you may very well ask 'Who am I".  As Bob Dylan once said "That's a good question!"  And every day I get a litte closer.  

  I have been wondering long and well what to put on this page. Facts, fantasy or stories?  Well I've decided to go for facts, I will try to cover a couple of superficial points at least, and  go over some  superficial  points. So here are a few steps along my way:

Born as a Leo  in Paddington Hospital, London. That's right, just around the corner from Paddington Station, the place where Paddington Bear was found. 

My father was from Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland - a place I knew so well. My father, also a Denis, let me spend much time in his home town , Kanturk, a small farming village not far from Killarney.  I spent some of my happiest and most entertaining days there as a youth.  There are truly many stories to tell

My mother is from lovely Worcestershire in England on the River Avon.  Her hometown was a very picturesque village called Wyre Piddle, not far from Piddle-in-the-Hole, and North Piddle.  I had many happy days there too with my grandparents.  It was the home of the best fish and chips in the whole wide world!   I stayed with my parents till I was 21, living first in London then in Essex.

Went hitchhiking around Scandinavia, up to Lapland,  with temperatures around 20 below (Centigrade).  Carrying my rucksack, tent and guitar, and almost no money,  I could well of died from the exposure.  Eventually left Essex and visited Bavaria 3 times, then returned to north England to live in wondeful Ilkley, a town in the Yorkshire Dales.   Later returned to Bavaria, a lovely  spa  town, in the  provinces called Bad Kissingen.  As time went a  family  grew with 3 sons who are now grown up and running their own lives.

 My first guitar was my brother's right handed guitar, and me being left handed, I left the strings upside down!  As a later instructor once said "We'll have you in the Guiness Book of World Records, but I can't teach you anything with the strings upside down."  I eventually started to fiddle around more nad more on the guitar, later I could even play it too. Never-the-less over the years I have written some good original sounds.   I now have a large repertiore of songs and instrumentals " , which I play in  concerts:    every now and again.   And  here are some newspaper comments .  I also paint  in aquarelle with a certain amount of success, go and have a look.

Many people and characters have been responsible in influencing the way I think, especially Walt Whitman, and in particular Paramahansa Yogananda  who's teaches how to find God in this life through Kriya Yoga .    

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