Two small girls who lived next door to the poet in London were the inspiration for these fairy stories. All that was happening in and around the garden captivated him, and at night the rambling Victorian house seemed full of mystical things. For the rest, imagination and observation served as the backdrop of all that "just might be."

Donald Frederick Strange was born in 1928, and his love of the written word, and more particularly, poetry, commenced at school and has continued throughout his entire life. He was a student of St. Clement Danes Grammar school before entering the army as a national service man in the Royal Scots Greys. Afterward, he trained as a quantity surveyor and joined a firm of civil engineers and building contractors, where he rose to a position on the board.

Later he specialised in matters relating to contractor's claims, branching out in a number of other enterprises, all of which fed his imagination so that with the aid of hundreds of scribbled notes, he has written over a thousand poems.

The two little girls started his thinking on all that can be seen through children's eyes, but these are poems which may be read as much by grown-ups, providing they are prepared to question what "just might be."