Tom Radford is a creative content professional and internet search marketer/analyst with over fifteen years of experience as an IT engineer working in large blue chip organisations. He is also a writer, illustrator, photographer, poet and musician who like so many others, is battling his away to be accepted as such. He was born on New Years Eve 1972 in the village of Lyndhurst; historical capital of the New Forest. Having spent his formative years in that forest (and later in some of its best pubs) he has developed a distinctive imaginative style of writing which he has adapted to all facets of his work including animated films, novels, children’s books, songs, scripts and poetry. Tom is editor of his own online blog newspaper The Haddock which has a very off-the-wall view of life with topical stories and general lunacy in the name of fun. You can also read Tom’s Hubpages Blog