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On Blogger since March 2010
Profile views - 2963
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Location | Poland |
| Introduction | Roman Catholic, married, father and grandfather. Former banker, investment consultant, project worker in London homelessness charities. I taught for seven years in a Catholic school in Poland, and now am busy teaching adults, translating and proof-reading. |
| Interests | philology, reading poetry, writing verse, music, playing flute, saxophone, sailing, learning, Polish parties (very sui generis), people |
| Favorite Movies | Some Like It Hot, High Noon, Duck Soup (anything with Marx Brothers), Bulldog Breed (anything with Norman Wisdom), Passion of the Christ, Potop |
| Favorite Music | Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Chopin, Saint-Saens, Plainsong, pre-war blues, pre-war jazz, Thelonious Monk, Sydney Bechet |
| Favorite Books | Father Brown, anything by Chesterton or Raymond Chandler, Homer, Sappho, Catullus, Pope, Dryden, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, T. L Peacock, Villon (all in random order). |
