The Happy and Prosperous Blog

Hi there. I’m Roger Knight.

First of all thanks for your interest in this blog. Below you will find a bit of info about my background and how I came to be writing these articles.

Childhood and Education
I was born in Birmingham in 1956. I don’t remember much about being there though as we moved to Blackpool soon afterwards. I went to school there and later in Southport. After that I went to Oxford University to study Chemistry. I didn’t like it much there though so I dropped out and worked for a year before going back to Chemistry again, this time at Leeds University.

Work and Career
I worked as a research chemist for 3 years then went off to Spain to teach English for a year which was great. I started my love affair with Spain at this time ! When I came back I didn’t have a job, didn’t want to go back to working with chemicals, so decided to retrain as a computer programmer. Did that and worked at Legal and General on big mainframe database systems. Moved back to Leeds to work at the Leeds Permanent which then merged with the Halifax. I worked on PC based systems and did some stuff around Object Oriented Programming and Design when it was all very new and then worked on even bigger mainframe database systems. Then I was offered a position at the Halifax’s subsidiary in Madrid. So I worked there for 18 months and got pretty fluent in Spanish. I came back to Leeds again and worked on even bigger mainframe database systems now as a project manager.

Developing Interests
At the back end of the 90’s I started getting interested in homeopathy as a viable alternative to conventional medicine. I got so interested in fact that I completed a 4 year part time course which qualified me as a practising homeopath. I had a period of time where I worked at the Halifax part time and was a homeopath part time. At this point I really started to get into web site design and build as a way of promoting my work as a homeopath. I built sites for other people and it grew from there. I found I enjoyed doing that as much as being a homeopath. So I left the Halifax and now split my time between being a web site designer and seeing clients for homeopathy. As I was doing quite a lot of web development work, I decided to set up aweb site design company, AttractMore.

Personal Info
If you want some more personal details, well, along the way I got married, had 2 kids and got divorced ! The kids are great - the elder one is at Uni and the younger one is studying for A levels (November 2007). I now hang out with a lovely woman called Helen who is also a homeopath.

That’s it. If you want more details, you’ll have to ask. No promises though !

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