Ashley

i spent my formative years sailing foreign shores until i met a girl that i really cared about. we settled down - bought a house together, a car, got married & had some pets - the whole bit..... but our love drifted away until things fell apart. subsequently, following long periods of factotum, 'beating my brains' with debauchery and hard-living, some procrastination & much solitude i began working in residential care and occasionally enrolled on a college course here & there; studying mostly philosophy and film theory. eventually though, after graduating with a 1st class honours english degree i returned to the field of social care and i presently manage a home for adults with learning disabilities. i'm now back in college, undertaking a post-grad course in care management. I'm single and i live with my lovely daughter Frances and our dog Woody in llanelli. In summary then, life to date has been a series of progressions and transgressions in equal measure - for every achievement there has been a set back. Regards friends, to paraphrase the great tom waits, i've smoked most of 'em right down to the filter! these days i mostly make do with acquaintances. However, there remain a handful of special people in my life & at 36 i have hopefully learned many lessons from this journey that is life's mystery. i have dispelled my more self-destructive characteristics and finally, it seems, after taming the beast within i have begun to self-develop.....