Shades of Gray

About the Book

Love, despair, joy and pain, life is a journey filled with a range of emotion, the strength of which turns moments into memories. To paint a picture of these using the medium of words and invoke a response is the poet’s craft. If the following touch you in any way, help you view the world from an others perspective, give birth to tears, life to smiles or simply entertains then I have succeeded in my task. Special thanks to Paul Mckeown for supplying a lot of the photos, a man with a dream who created a reality…very proud of you chop.

About the Author

Born in Middlesbrough in the North East of England, the son of Francis Mulcaster and Eileen McGee. In 1990 he and a friend opened Steel City Gym, with no initial budget they created what at the time was the largest hardcore gymnasium in the area which still thrives today. His work as an engineer has taken him around the world from Vietnam to China, Burma to Kazakhstan, coming into contact with various peoples and cultures helping to shape his thoughts and beliefs. In 2007 he moved to Thailand immersing himself in the culture of the ‘Land of Smiles’. The proudest moments in his life were the births of his two sons, Christopher and Louis. The most difficult decision in his life was to live without his family. His saddest moment was the death of his beloved father, and his greatest achievement was learning to forgive himself for his mistakes.