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Relationship

Married. Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking

Hometown

Amersham, Buckinghamshire

Places I've been

Ardmore Avenue, Akron OH Most of continental U.S., all of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and the Islands. Belgium and Switzerland, and, of course, Ireland, " the old country". I live in Thornton Heath, Surrey, but my backgarden is in London? Yes, I can`t understand it either!

Education

• St. Bernard`s, RC, London E1, French, Latin, Maths, English, History & Geography - 1955 to 1960

Work

• London The Daily Mail, Fleet St., proof reader - 1968 to 1988
• Freelance p/r & selling antiques, Hanging on by my fingertips - 1992 to 1996

More about me

Retired, love reading, my religion is Baseball ! I worked as a proof reader/sub editor and copy writer in advertising. I have sold `antique chinaware` in Portobello Rd.,  Market, and was a film extra.  Really great fun but not a good fee.

 

Activities

Prison Visitor, watching the sea and helping other people thru` 12-step work. Cuban cigars (on a sunny day, which rarely happens in England, with Cuban coffee) and, of course, the West End of London theatres. The best in the world. TRYING TO GROW OLD DISGRACEFULLY!

Favorite Charities

Nat. Soc. for Protection of Cruelity to Children. Oxfam, Animal Help, Help the Aged, Cancer Relief, Poppy Day (as on Remembrance Day) Help for our Servicemen/women.

Favorite Music

50s & early 60s Rock, Bryan Ferry, Timi Yuro - The best-ever blues singer, Dino, Frank, Sammy, Jimmy Roselli, Ella, Sarah, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Yves Montand, Gilbert Becaud, Chopin, Mozart, Debussy, Italian opera. I listen to all varieties. If music doesn`t bring a tear to your eyes.....there must be a hole in your soul.

Favorite TV Shows

Law & Order (Jerry Orbach), NYPD:Blue (Dennis Franz), CSI:NY, Frazier, Without a Trace, historical drama, History Channel, geography, politics, Dastardly & Muttley.

Favorite Movies

Manon de Source/Jean de Florette, Dances with Wolves, La Dolca Vita, Seconds, Wages of Fear, La Balance, Field of Dreams, Goodfellas, A Bronx`s Tale, M. Hulot`s Holiday, Les Enfants du Paradis, Breathless (J.P. Belmondo), Rififi, Plein Soleil.

Favorite Books

Mark Twain (all), Kerouac, Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, de Maupassent, J-P Satre, Cervantes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bill Bryson, Austen, Brontes, Leon Uris, "Preppy Handbook", James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse

Favorite Quotes

DON`T QUOTE QUOTES, LIVE THEM!

Favorite People

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Sir Winston Churchill, Mother Theresa, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luthor King Jr., Bill W & Dr Bob, Sir Thomas More, The Pope, Nelson Mandella, St.Theresa of Liseaux, Lord Horatio Nelson, Michael Collins, Richard Attenbrough, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Mohammad Ali, Dorothy Parker

Favorite Places

Akron OH, Venice, Florence, Paris, Capri, Monte Carlo, South of France, Provence, Barcelona, Cape Cod, Martha`s Vineyard, New York, Palm Springs CA, Charleston SC, Palm Beach, Savannah GA, Chicago, the Greek Islands, all of Eire, Scotland, Wales, Jermyn St., & Savile Row London, Brooks Brothers, J. Press, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Paul Stuart, Vineyard Vines.

Favorite Animals

ALL SPECIES -- THEY HAVE THEIR RIGHT TO THIS EARTH AS DO WE!

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