Colin (Cee Tee) Jackson is a recently retired petcare professional of eighteen years. Prior to going to the dogs, he worked in Branch Banking for twenty-eight years, being made redundant in 2004.
Colin grew up in Westerton during the 1960s and 1970s. From the age of two until almost fourteen, he lived in Deepdene Road, before the family moved to ‘The Switchback’ and Ravelston Road in 1972.
Upon marriage ten years later, and necessitated by work, he moved away from the village although he returns each week to visit his elderly parents.
Retirement now offers Colin more time to spend on his sporting pursuits, which is now more or less centred on Pickleball, and he’s scheduled to commence his Club Coaching certification later this month.
Colin has now written four books. The first three were shorter in nature with the aim just to gain experience in self-publishing.
Taking the general advice to ‘write about you know,’ those first books were about dogs, pets … and cardiac arrest. (He survived an idiopathic, out of hospital Sudden Cardiac Arrest in April 2023)
His latest book, reflects upon his time growing up in Westerton during the 1960s & 1970s, though much of what he details in ‘A SPACE HOPPER KILLED MY HAMSTER … amusing tales of growing up in the ‘60s & ‘70s’ will be familiar to readers of a certain age across the UK. And beyond.
As you may surmise from the title (also ‘Damp Dogs & Rabbit Wee,’ and ‘No Laughing Matter … a short tale of death & how to recover from it’) his writing style is light and (hopefully) humorous, although readers have commented, sometimes through tears apparently (!) on the fusion of humour and pathos.
In June of this year, Colin also had two ‘gift books’ published by Summersdale Publishers, who approached him to ghost-write ‘How to Survive Retirement,’ and ‘How to Survive Being a Grandparent,’ on their behalf.
(He was neither retired nor a grandparent at the time of writing those books.)
