I was so desperate to become a Chiropractor that I applied to every college that the NZ chiropractors approved. I started at Anglo-Europrean (in Bournemouth UK) but transferred for financial reasons to Phillip Institute of Technology, affectionatley known as PIT (Now Royal Melbourne Unitversity) after two terms. I am blessed to have made many great friends in this profession. I was involved in student activities and was even Chiropractic Student President for a year.

I externed in Auckland and Melbourne before fate sent me to Cambridge where I worked for three years. After two years I began to feel that chiropractic was not being all that it could be. About that time my friend David Brietbach called me up and said that Donald Epstein was holding the first Network seminar outside the US in Paris that week. Afterwards I felt as if I had 'come home' to what chiropractic should be, a tool for helping people to empower themselves.

Lauren Deanna age 7 months

After my wife graduated from Cambridge we moved to Oxfordshire and I did locum work for two good friends that I had met at Anglo-European College. I bought Kidlington Chiropractic from them and converted it from a regular practice to Network in 1996. Since then things have been growing steadily.

The reason I stayed in the UK, despite the weather, is that while in Cambridge I met my wife Leslie-Anne. We lived in a modest house which backed onto open feilds so that our tabbycat "TC" could play in the great outdoors. Leslie-Anne and I have one child LAUREN DEANNA who was born on April 5 1999. Visit her at lollyshomepage and morelolly

Unfortunatley in March 2000 we decided to go our separate ways and we now share Lauren between us, Lauren is the apple of my eye and is teaching me much about learning to see the world with the wonder of a child, and how to paly again.