Fresh off the Paddington train, I checked into London Bible College, where I did my first degree, edited the student magazine, and tried to strike a balance between beer and theology that Martin Luther would have been proud of. 1977, the year I left college, found me spending a winter and summer as a conductor on London's famous red buses (on the model of bus before the Routemaster) and launching a small magazine called Ship of Fools. We stapled it together ourselves.

Fellow student and bosom buddy Steve Goddard and I worked together for a year, touring the UK with an act known as Goddard & Jenkins (him: singing at the piano; me: reading poetry), after which I married Roey and we settled in West London, where we still live.

I've never actually had a career, so there's no smooth progression up any sort of ladder after 1980, although I did spend five very happy years as a commissioning editor at Lion Publishing, when they were in the wilds of Tring, Herts. Since 1988, I've been a freelance writer, editor and designer, and eventually web producer. I've also done quite a lot of cartooning.

In 1996, I finally bought a cable long enough to connect my Apple Mac to the phone socket, and I was on the net. Two years later, Steve Goddard and I relaunched Ship of Fools as a web magazine and were gobsmacked when it proved so popular and developed into an online community. In many ways, the ship is a career-devouring monster. It's hugely rewarding, but the treasures have so far been mostly found in heaven, rather than on earth.

I've spent a lot of my life in low-church Anglicanism, but I was once a Baptist and I've also been strongly attracted to Eastern Orthodoxy for as long as I've known it existed... which is how I wrote a book on Orthodox icons.