User:Davidhsjenkins

I have been a huge fan of wikipedia since I first discovered it and frequently use it for my own benefit, mainly to add to my knowledge across the wide spectrum of information offered to me by wikipedia.

I live in Sydney, Australia. I was brought up and educated in Britain. My family home was in Scotland. I finished high school there and some years after that I returned to the educational system, enrolling at a technical college to get a diploma in aquaculture. This sat well with my own interest in fish and fishing, and several years of experience as a seine net fisherman in and around my home in ross-shire.

I then worked for several years as manager of a fish farm in wester ross, before emigrating to Australia. I maintained my involvement in aquaculture for the first two or three years in Australia, but then moved onto other interests.

I am close to retirement now, and much of my free time is spent researching historical information relating to the period 1840 to 1940 and the social and economic impact the crimean and first world wars had on the population in general, and on attitudes towards change in particular within the fishing and crofting community of my part of ross and cromarty.