About Me

I'm now retired after 42 years at the Met Office (until 2003 at Bracknell HQ, latterly Exeter). Almost all of that time was sent in R&D specialising in remote ground- and satellite-based instrumentation and data processing & monitoring.

I live in Chudleigh, Devon. My current interests include:

• Photography —
  • check out my photo gallery
  • member of the Chudleigh & District U3A Photographc Group
  • member of the (now inactive) Chudleigh Camera Club
• Local (natural) history —
  • member of, and webmaster and digital archivist for, the Chudleigh History Group (CHG)
  • member of the Chudleigh and District Amenity Society (CADAS)
  • member of the Devon Wildlife Trust and a volunteer for their Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat Project
• Walking the local lanes and paths —
  • see CHG/CADAS Group Walks and
  • Chudleigh Walkers photos
• Remote controlled model boat building and sailing and drone flying —
  • see my model boat photos
  • (lapsed) member of the Exeter & District MBC
• IT —
  • keeping this website & server running
  • learning new stuff (e.g. getting my head around PHP & JS)
• Weather — running and displaying live readings from an automatic weather station
• Genealogy — the Offiler Family Tree