An autobigraphical essay in seven parts written in 2012 for family & friends. It includes water resources engineering as a hydrologist in the tropics and chemidal engineering as a manager in an associated company of Vickers Ltd. There is an account of pilot training as a National Serviceman and more flying of balloons, an airship, and a gyrocopter. Coastal trading as owner of a native vessel in the Indian Ocean is described. An essay on development economics is included as well as articles on energy poverty & the thorium-fuelled molten salt reactor and on monetary justice. There is even a published short story...The narrative parts have been described as an easy read. The author started his professional life with a degree in physics and lives in London.