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James

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About Me

Live in a not too auspicious part of North London. Dream of Hills and Sea and Flying. Work in a FE college, teaching construction. The job fills most of my life, Family (10 +) Friends (Too numerous to count) and hobbies (See opposite) fill the gaps. Guaranteed to think outside the box. Way, way outside some boxes. 100% loyal and somewhat uncomplicated well most of the time, unless that is when I'm exceedingly so. Widest mind on the planet, unless you are any kind of bigot. Tolerant as they come, unless deprived of sleep. Can’t dance, won’t dance unless squiffy, then it’s a lot of fun for all concerned! Never the life and soul of a party (kitchens are good) but I will get you there and back safely and help clean the carpet the next day. A self reliant practical and on the whole honest bloke.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people. Having a 'brain' and using it is good. Bit of nutter is also good. People who make me laugh. Any one with tallent who is not affraid to use it, share it, and pass on the skills.

My Blog

The Olympics will damage London..Here is why.

Well I waited to see and held back on commenting on whether it's a good or bad thing but new information has coloured my decision which is THE OLYMPICS WILL BE A BAD THING FOR GRASS ROOTS SPORT. Here ...
Posted by on Sat, 03 May 2008 20:37:00 GMT

uke playing over Christmas and the new year

Uke playing activities over Christmas and the New Year. Same old and a new gig made things a bit different. First "the Old", a gig with the Wyvern Dance Band. http://www.wyverndanceband.co.uk/ This w...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:10:00 GMT

A fine time in Germany

I'm back from Germany and what a time I've had, ho yes it was good, what a fine time we all had. But hold on you don't know why I was there in the first place. It was six years ago or so I was invited...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT

CD Tracks

Well here they are ... I hope the tracks from S.O.U.P's firt CD "SOUP songs" http://www.box.net/shared/static/6typis1iyr.mp3 http://www.box.net/shared/static/11q6xs9jme.mp3 http://www.box.net/shared/s...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:48:00 GMT

Recording session! my first.

  Well &. Wow&&&.. I don't know where to start on this one.   Phil said Nick (that's Nick Southwood) has a recording studio. Well that would make any one listen up, so we did. Phil went on. ...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:22:00 GMT

Ukulel;e Flash Mob!

It was a quarter to six as I walked over the Jubilee Bridge. As I did so I was watching over to my left to se if I could pick out any one I recognised. It was the day and close to the allotted time fo...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:03:00 GMT

Sorry, Fun Fun Fun.

I'm feeling a bit guilty.. I know there are loads of people out there who visit this blog who play Uke and all I seem to be doing lately is blogging about how crap education has become in the UK ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:58:00 GMT

FYO

Latest news is that the College I work at has too many adult students! No, no we do have somewhere to put them that isn't the issue&.yet. The problem is that last year we went over our limit for adult...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:30:00 GMT

Hacked off so........ Another education rant

Another bit of info for you regarding the state of Further Education in the UK. Our masters at White Hall have folded up ALI.    ALI is the Adult Learning Inspectorate it's the FE version ...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:41:00 GMT

My brothers art/charity site.

My big brother Steve, has opened a web site with the birthday present I got for him. Yeh, right so what?  you may say but just give it a moment. After a severe flu like illness in 1997, Steve w...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:15:00 GMT