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• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Aries
• Industry: Non-Profit
• Occupation: Policy Adviser
• Location: Bristol : United Kingdom

About Me

I attended Markfield Primary 1959-66 I attended Mundella Boys 66-70 I attended Charles Keene College 70-74 I attended Bristol Poly 83-85 I attended Swansea University 86-7 if you did, feel free to contact me.

Interests

• Storytelling
• Quakerism
• Politics
• Radical History
• Dreaming of writing
• Reading and Books
• Politics
• Music(Listening)
• Improvisation
• Theology
• Speculative Fiction
• Social Enterprise
• Rambling
• Cooking for friends
• Conversation
• Ale
• Comedy
• Theatre
• Surfing
• Providing Solutions
• Public Speaking
• Custard tarts

Favorite Movies

• Blade Runner
• Casablanca
• Chinatown
• Citizen Kane
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Double Indemnity
• Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
• The Godfather
• Parts I and II
• The Good
• The Bad and The Ugly
• Goodfellas
• His Girl Friday
• It's A Wonderful Life
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Lawrence of Arabia
• The Lord of the Rings
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Metropolis
• On the Waterfront
• Psycho
• Pulp Fiction
• Raging Bull
• Schindler's List
• Singin’ in the Rain
• Some Like It Hot
• Star Wars
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Taxi Driver
• Unforgiven
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Seven Samurai
• Touch of Evil
• Battleship Potemkin
• La Dolce Vita
• The Third Man
• Apocalypse Now
• Modern Times
• Sunset Blvd.
• The Seventh Seal
• The Wizard of Oz
• Nashville
• The Apartment
• Blue Velvet
• Manhattan
• The Maltese Falcon
• Gone With the Wind
• Shawshank Redemption

Favorite Music

• 2pac
• 50cent
• ABBA
• Abdullah Ibrahim
• Alanis Morissette
• Almma
• Ann Reinking and The Boys
• Ash
• Astor Piazzola
• Aswad. Athlete
• Augustus Pablo
• Baby Shambles
• Barry White
• Basement Jaxx
• the Beatles
• Bebe Neuwirth
• Beck
• Belle & Sebastian
• Benny Goodman
• Bessie Smith
• Billie Holiday
• Black Eyed Peas
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
• Black Sabbath
• Bloc Party
• Blondie
• Bob Dylan
• Bob Marley
• Bonnie Tyler
• Bowling for Soup
• Brad Mehldau
• Buddy Guy
• Carlos Gardel
• Cat Stevens
• Cavalleria Rusticana
• Charlie Parker
• Chet Baker
• Choir of St John's College
• Clannad
• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
• The Clash
• Clyde and the KGs
• Coldplay
• Coleman Hawkins
• Conjunto Campesino Cuyaguateje
• Count Basie and His Orchestra
• Counting Crows
• Courtney Pine
• Craig David
• Daddy Yankee
• Danny Kaye

Favorite Books

• All quiet on the western front
• Animal farm a fairy story
• Best of Myles Na Gopaleen
• Catch-22
• Darkness at Noon
• Doctor Zhivago
• Shantaram
• Small Island
• Three men in a boat to say nothing of the dog!
• The Water of the Hills
• The age of revolution : Europe 1789-1848
• The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism
• Christianity and Islam
• A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet
• The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia
• Guns
• germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13
• 000 years
• Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
• A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution
• 1891-1924
• So You Think You're Human?
• The Story of English
• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Earth abides
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven
• The Magus
• Star maker
• The unbearable lightness of being
• The Changing Faces of Jesus
• Christian Faith at the Crossroads: A Map of Modern Religious History
• The Essential Rumi
• Honest to Jesus
• The Invitation
• The Jesus Sutras
• Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture
• Liberating the Gospels
• Process Theology: A Basic Introduction
• Quaker Faith and Practice
• Seven Theories of Religion
• Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• If you meet the Buddha on the road
• kill him! the pilgrimage of psychotherapy patients
• Images of organisation
• Naked Economics - Undressing the Dismal Science
• The Seven Deadly Sins: Jewish
• Christian and Classical Reflections on Human Psychology
• The Tipping Point
• Watching the English
• The Wisdom of Crowds
• The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
• Asimov's New Guide to Science
• Eight Little Piggies
• Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britain?
• How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
• A Short History of Socialism

My Blogs	Team Members
Random Short Stories
A Tentative Quaker
Notes of a book dreamer
Story Idea Journal
Creative Writing Blog