Hemera

After gaining her Degree, Hemera Booth BSc (Hons) had been assigned as research assistant to Professor Sean Docherty to study toward Doctorates in Astrophysics and Particle Theory. The first few years passed without incident and she sailed through her theses with remarkable ease under the guidance of her marginally eccentric mentor and found herself still attached to him and his research institute after eight years. Then, one Monday morning in early autumn things began to change from being occasionally marginally odd to permanently positively weird. Even her secret friend, who she had held onto since childhood, seemed to be in on the act along with a whole host of officials from every conceivable corner of the higher echelons of Administration.

After qualifying as a Quantity Surveyor in 1980 Bryan found himself enjoying a number of years working in Civil Engineering on sites in the Middle east, South Africa, Sellafield Nuclear Plant, the Shetland Islands Botswana and then again in South Africa. Having purged himself of the travel bug he settled for the a more routine life in the UK adopting a more hands-on approach to employment by way of landscape gardening, dry stone walling, tree felling and, well, anything outdoors.