Some of my other various interests.
As a boy in the deep, country villages i assembled a large bird’s egg collection, in my naive love and wonder of the country, blowing them all and laying them out on sawdust to admire and identify. Always out in the fields, woods and hedges of Skendleby, I met up with a farmer’s son to go shooting with a 4/10 - I would be 8.
Taken at Alvaston back in the sixties, young wildfowler Jim Emerton and the faithfull Ben
This triggered off my hunting and elemental instincts, and later trained Ben a good black lab, and off we went rough shooting on big farms. My finest hours would be as a hardened wildfowler with Kenzie the Wild Goose Man, from his famous houseboat on the Wash saltings. We shot duck species, legitimate waders, geese, pheasants and hares and loved the wilderness, living rough and wild and free - see archive film of the man on Google.
The great man triggered my eternal fondness for rogues and characters in the world.
Jim's study years, taken at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Seen 2nd row 2nd from right, the young Jim standing behind room mate Alan Titchmarsh front row 2nd from right
Later I became a scholar and honours student, before my travels in Africa/Asia and America - I mixed with Tibetans in the roof of the world. With age my urges have been intellectual and cultural, where I write as a poet and philosopher for Mensa/books/magazines and the internet. My 2 books should be out by June 2016 and will be reviewed. They depict my passion and lust for life in its rich and endless diversity - I hope you will read them.
The current day Jim Emerton enjoying his garden during a break from his writing.
Jim Emerton
