Ian Dorking-Clark
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Retired Primary School Teacher |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I am the one on the right. I am a retired School Master (Nancy Mitford would have liked me to use the term) living in glorious seclusion in suburban South London. What more can I say? Oh yes! Born in Quetta, Baluchistan, which was part of India in the days of The (British) Raj; then during Partition, became part of West Pakistan and is now part of modern-day Pakistan. As my father always said to me, "Don't forget, you're a Baluch, my boy". Brought up in West Australia and then "returned" to the UK where I have taken up a repectable life. So I suppose I'm a bit of a Sandgroper (West Autralian) laced with overtones of Anglo Indian/Paki... and proud of it. |
| Interests | Writing, obviously. I love the sound of my own voice, and I would like to imagine that I "have a voice". But it's not for me to say. |
| Favorite Movies | A Room With A View (Merchant Ivory), Farinelli, Chocolat, La Dolce Vits, 9 to 5, Amadeus, Angel Eyes, Annie, Arlington Road, As Good As It Gets, Baghban, Batteries Not Included, Benny & Joon, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Biloxi, Blues, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Bride and Prejudice, Brideshead Revisited, Bridget Jones the Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Cabaret, Charlotte Gray, Le Chateau de Ma Mer, Chicken Run, Chocolat, Cinema Paradiso, City of Angels, Crash, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dangerous Liaisons, Dave, Death in Venice, Dil Se…, La Dolce Vita, Doli Saja ke Rakhna, Don Juan De Marco, The Duellists, Earth, East is East, East of Eden, Edwards Scissorhands, Europa. Europa, Evita, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Field of Dreams, Fiza, Forever Young, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Frequency, Gallipoli, Ghost, La Gloire de Mon Pere, Gone With The Wind, Grand Hotel, Green Card, The Green Mile, Groundhog Day, The Guru, A Handful of Dust, The Horseman on the Roof, Jack and Sarah, Jean de Florette, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Ladies in Lavender, Lagan (Once upon a time in India), Last Year in Marienbad, Life is Beautiful, The Man Without a Face, Manon des Sources, La Maschera, Masti, Maurice, Meet Joe Black, Mission Kashmir, Mr and Mrs Iyer, My Beautiful Laundrette, La Notte di San Lorenzo AKA The Night of the Shooting Stars, Of Mice and Men, Pay it Forward, Il Postino, Prelude to a Kiss, Refugee, Roman Holiday, The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, The Shawshank Redemption, Six Degrees of Separation, The Sixth Sense, The Sound of Music, Stand By Me, Suddenly Last Summer, The Talented Mr Ripley, Tea With Mussolini, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Timescape, Truly. Madly. Deeply, Unbreakable, Wallace and Gromit, West Side Story, Where Angels Fear to Tread Withnail and I |
| Favorite Music | Fairly eclectic, so from Traditional Jazz to Verdi and Rossini. Marilyn Horne, Juan Diego Florez and Shadi Torbey are currently my favourite singers. |
| Favorite Books | The Great Gatsby, Brideshead Revisited, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Cabala, Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner |
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