Hello, Visitor! and welcome.

I am Ivan Manning, and I was born in New Zealand; I have lived both in the South Island and the North Island. At present I am an Australian resident and living on the North Coast of Australia near Darwin in the Northern Territory. I trained both as a schoolteacher and as a science technician, and have filled technical posts in government research establishments and in the food and the pharmaceutical industries, and have been on the technical staff of a university.

Today I am widowed and retired.

I also espouse the cause of helping Mother Earth to "get on her feet again", after all the depredations that humanity have wrought upon her surface and Nature Kingdoms!

I have moved from Newcastle, NSW, to live with my son, and am withdrawing from internet business activities for the meantime at least. However I will still visit Adlands every so often, to see how my friends are doing, and perhaps interact on occasion; but I will have less internet time, I expect. 

My good wishes to everyone!