I graduated in Graphic Design at what was then the University of Central England in 1992. For the ten years following I was involved with the Birmingham Buddhist Centre, offtimes on retreat at Padmaloka and with supporting the Preceptor’s College Council at Madhyamaloka in Moseley, Birmingham. I was at various times a librarian, cook, builder’s mate, receptionist, maintenance man and occasionally even a graphic designer. I did several of these jobs concurrently, at one point mixing cement for a bricklayer and then nipping into the kitchen to make dinner!

I was ordained at Guhyaloka in the autumn of 2001, then spent a year at home before joining the MA Typographic Studies course at what was then the London college of Printing for the whole of 2003. I blundered into Internet IT directly after that.

I first went to the Buddhafield Festival in 1999. I did a half shift in the Café every day, spent the weekend having an indescribably awesome time, had very little sleep (mostly thanks to the slope my tent was pitched on!) and came away with a nasty cough caused by jumping in and out of hot tubs, saunas and sweat lodges, in between times drying off in front of the nearest fire. I was asked to join the Steward Crew the following year and ended up managing it. I’m currently a Director of the Festival and a Trustee of it’s parent charity FWBO (Buddhafield).