However, anyone who has read either of his books 'Rantin' Rovin' Robin' or 'My Loose and Floaty Bits' will know there is also a deeply romantic side to Robin.

Recently Robin Macpherson has been writing a novel based on a series of collected love letters, poetry, prose and verse called 'Toucan One Can't'.

"It's a bit like taking a peek through a small frame at the lives of two people," Robin said.

After reviewing Robin's first draft, Robin's publisher suggested 'Toucan One Can't' would also make a great play.

Robin has now been asked by his publisher to write a play from his novel by the end of the financial year with a view to releasing the book and the play simultaneously.

The cover of "Toucan One Can't' has been delightfully illustrated and depicts two toucans sitting on a perch happily in love with one toucan sitting alone below them.

The preface to 'Toucan One Can't' reads as follows:

The most wonderful of all things in life is the mystery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner growing of love between two people is a most wonderful thing; it cannot be found by looking for it, or by wishing for; it is a divine gift.

For one human being to love another is the most difficult of tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, for which all other work is but preparation.

It makes no difference how deep-seated the problem or trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake, a sufficient realisation that love will dissolve them all, is all that is required.