Hello, and thanks for visiting my page. Most people call me Bernie, which is fine; please feel free to do the same. I was born in a small village in the south of England in 1957. It was a fairly sheltered childhood and it was some years before I left the comfort of home and finally moved around the country; eventually settling in the north east of Scotland with my wife and two sons. I've been writing for about forty years; mainly poetry but some short stories as well. I write about anything that I think will provoke an emotional reaction of some type; on the whole it's love, relatio more...