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I'm an IT department for a small company (which in my case also involves answering the 'phone, taking orders and gossiping). I'm also an amateur chocolatier (but quite good), have done catering occasionally (veggie), and am a musician (pro, semi-pro or amateur, depending on the gig) - classical & folk-rock genres, timpani, percussion & melodeon - and playing for morris dancing teams around the world (English traditional folk dance) - including The Outside Capering Crew. I'm also a member of our local Community Agriculture Group which owns a couple of farms - we get a share of the produce and can go & work there if we have time.
I've also been a Humanist Funeral Officiant. I feel a lot younger than a lot of people of my age, which I feel odd - but then when I was 18 I looked & felt a lot older.
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The Good, The Bad and The Queen
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Got it. 9th July, The Tower of London, 7:00pm. See you all there?
blog entry posted Wed, June 13, 2007 - 2:40 AM
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Gigs & jigs.
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Got a call last Wednesday asking if I was free the following evening - which I was - to play for Univ. of Gloucestershire Chamber Orchestra. Mainly film & show music (Big Country, Thunderbirds, Dam Busters). Went well - sight reading OK (at leas...
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blog entry posted Tue, June 12, 2007 - 3:05 AM
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Crash!
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There was I, last Wednesday, happily driving along to pick the children up from holiday clum, minding my own business, when some elderly bugger decided I wasn't there at all and drove out of a side road into me.
This did not make me very happ... read more
blog entry posted Tue, June 5, 2007 - 1:35 AM
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Short notice gig!
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At 4pm today, I though I'd been quite productive, apart from a medium-late rising (8:45). Went to a DIY store to get wood preservative, camping shop to exchange daughters sleeping bag bought yesterday tha had rip in it, and buy wind break for ten...
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Breastfeeding...
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Yesterday I had the peculiar honour of attending a breastfeeding support group - MOBS (Mothers offering breastfeeding support) in Stroud, and managing to scare some of the toddlers who were there...
During Christmastide, I was performing the St... read more
blog entry posted Fri, May 11, 2007 - 3:13 AM
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Got it. 9th July, The Tower of London, 7:00pm. See you all there?
Wed, June 13, 2007 - 2:40 AM
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Got a call last Wednesday asking if I was free the following evening - which I was - to play for Univ. of Gloucestershire Chamber Orchestra. Mainly film & show music (Big Country, Thunderbirds, Dam Busters). Went well - sight reading OK (at least I got to play through the stuff once first). Came away aching from lugging all the kit around at high speed.
Tue, June 12, 2007 - 3:05 AM
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Meanwhile, I've just had an enquiry for The Outside Capering Crew to be the warmup act for Damon Alban's new band The Good, The Bad & T... read more
There was I, last Wednesday, happily driving along to pick the children up from holiday clum, minding my own business, when some elderly bugger decided I wasn't there at all and drove out of a side road into me.
Tue, June 5, 2007 - 1:35 AM
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This did not make me very happy, but I kept calm. The passenger side doors and frame are both crumpled. The other driver apologised and said "Mea culpa" (latin for 'my fault'). I don't know how badly his car was damaged, and to be honest, don't care. Anyway, I started a cla... read more
At 4pm today, I though I'd been quite productive, apart from a medium-late rising (8:45). Went to a DIY store to get wood preservative, camping shop to exchange daughters sleeping bag bought yesterday tha had rip in it, and buy wind break for tent for Chippenham Festival next weekend, then to old office to put drum kit into warehouse, home, pain new fence, lunch, then trip to municipal trip with cardboard & garden waste (not compost-able), then a car boot sale that only had 3 stalls left, ba...
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Sun, May 20, 2007 - 3:01 PM
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Yesterday I had the peculiar honour of attending a breastfeeding support group - MOBS (Mothers offering breastfeeding support) in Stroud, and managing to scare some of the toddlers who were there...
Fri, May 11, 2007 - 3:13 AM
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During Christmastide, I was performing the Stroud Mummers Play, in local pubs (and a rather good Thai restaurant in Painswick - I was inspired to go back to eat a couple of weeks later). One evening I played Belzabob (black face, black tatters and to prove I was a 'dirty old man', a large purp... read more
My Tribes
! ULC Ministers,
Baking (Breads and Pastry),
Chocolate,
Chocolatier wanna be,
Crushaholics,
Food Geeks,
Hare Krsna,
Indian Food,
Krishna Consciousness,
Krishna Food,
Morris,
My Vegetarian Children,
Recipe Exchange,
slow foodies,
Tofutti Cuties,
Vegetarian &Vegan Recipe Exchange,
Vegetarian Alcoholics,
Vegetarian Hedonists,
Vegetarians!,
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