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About Me

About me: born on 18th June 1961 at ten past four in the morning, in the payment ward of the public hospital in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland to English parents; my Dad working for the Desert Locust Survey out there. It was 1961, a year after British Somaliland had gained independence and six days later formed a union with Italian Somaliland to from the Democratic Republic of Somalia.

The rest his history... Civil war and declaration of independence, democracy, rule of law and free and fair elections, Somaliland now awaits international recognition as a sovereign state.

In the meantime, I am now living with my (Dutch) partner here in Amsterdam, currently without a job but looking, keeping up a blog http://charlesfred.blogspot.com and taking photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlesfred

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with similar interests and interesting views on the world around us.

My Blog

SOFT CELL - SOUL INSIDE ----- TOTP's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6w3FXVY6oc It was THIS broadcast on Top of the Pops which MORE than anything else made me fall in love with Soft Cell and, thereafter, Marc Almond.....
Posted by on Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:02:00 GMT

Marc in Blankenberge

The last post was from 2000, a review I wrote after Marc's open-air concert in the Flemish town of Lokeren.Last night I was lucky enough to ee Marc perform at the Flemish Radio 2 open air concert in B...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:36:00 GMT

Marc Almond in Lokeren in 2000

An evening in Lokeren August 7, 2000 Lokeren, situated off the E17 motorway between Antwerp and Gent, on the way to Paris and Calais, in the heart of Flanders. Deep in the land of tractor pu...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:34:00 GMT

Marc Almond's 50th birthday

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px 000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Marc Almond at Union Chapel, ...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:50:00 GMT

Being a Marc fan

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Posted by on Thu, 31 May 2007 05:42:00 GMT

Too much Tinky Winky makes you gay

Marc Almond at the Mermaid Theatre

Marc Almond at Union Chapel, London, originally uploaded by CharlesFred. The BBC are very kindly recording some songs from Marc Almond's new album Stardom Road (out next week) wit...
Posted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 23:01:00 GMT

Turkey: lessons from the past

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hasankeyf - Bridges over Tig...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:40:00 GMT

Anglican Churc to split today?

Slave-free chocplate for Valentine's Day

Slave-free chocolate, something different from Fair Trade chocolate and a very interesting story which had been going on here in the Netherlands. Teun van der Keuken (Tony) runs a consumer programme h...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:47:00 GMT