User:Cawstein

My profile (as far as the world wide web is concerned) probably comprises a number of programme notes, prepared for the Morpeth Music Society concerts over the space of a few years, as well as some random thoughts on politics, economics, the misuse of the English language and other perceived follies gaining currency in our times (http://cawstein.blogspot.com/; http://occidentis.blogspot.com/).

Of course, Cawstein only emerged when the web itself emerged; before that there was neither the means of developing these characteristic ideas, nor the time. I suffered as a child the constraint of having to go to school. Then there were 45 years of disciplined application to a career in academic biochemistry (where my contributions lay in bioenergetics and membrane transport, chiefly in bacteria and mitochondria).

Not all of these were "lost years"; 6 years at Oxford and 3 at Cambridge were both enormously educational and great fun. So too were 8 years in a private laboratory in rural Cornwall, 2 years in a stimulating laboratory in Manchester (UK) and 3 in Portland (Oregon). In the middle of all that a few hectic years devoted to rearing a family will no doubt turn out to be my only real contribution to the world, and source of scarcely justifiable pride.