MOST people wouldn’t associate writing the third in a trilogy of autobiographical books with the average 85-year-old - but that’s exactly what Haywards Heath’s Ronald Pross is doing.

With his first two books completed, and the first successfully published, Ronald is now using his newfound spare time, after downsizing to a Churchill Retirement Living apartment at Petlands Lodge, to continue his writing.

A champion for both an active retirement and living life to the full, Ron is appealing to publishers on World Book Day to help him with publishing the final two books in his lifetime’s epic.

Ron said: “As a Second World War child evacuee, my first book, The Penny Entrepreneur, is a real wartime adventure and I was so fortunate to have it published 20 years ago.

“The second in the trilogy, (yet to be named!), covers my schooling days, up until I started work and was called up for national service in 1953.

“Life sort of took over then and I was unable to focus on getting the third book done.”

Ronald and his wife, Joan, had been living in Billingshurst in a bungalow prior to moving to Churchill Retirement Living’s Petlands Lodge but as they got older, the house was becoming more and more of a challenge.

Ronald said: “Our previous home, the bungalow, was fine but it was a much larger property and as time went by, it became a lot of work to maintain, and was taking up so much of my time.

“Eventually we made the decision to downsize and buy an apartment. My eldest daughter had recently moved to Ardingly and used to come into Haywards Heath to do her shopping.”