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Gordon from the countryside

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About Me

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WHAT IS YOU NAME? - Hello everyone looking at this profile page. My name is Gordon Soames. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? - On a farm in the Essex countryside. WHERE DO YOU LIVE NOW? - I live on the East coast of England with my partner David. David lived in London for many years before moving to Suffolk. WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT OCCUPATION? - I am a Social Worker employed to help people who have drug or alcohol problems. WHAT WAS YOUR PREVIOUS OCCUPATION? - For 17 years I worked in advertising. WHAT ARE YOUR INTERESTS OUTSIDE OF WORK? - I love the theatre, music, dance and photography, everything associated with the arts. ARE YOU INVOLVED IN ANY COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES? - For more than 10 years I was a volunteer with our local AIDS helpline, supporting and befriending people with HIV or AIDS. ARE YOU INVOLVED IN POLITICS? - I am against all forms of racial and religious bigotry and poverty, so I guess I must be political. HAVE YOU VISITED ANY OTHER COUNTRIES? - I have been to Belgium, Holland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Morocco, Turkey, Canada, Russia, Greece, Malta, Sardinia, Corsica. ANY AMBITIONS? - To visit more countries and learn another language. I learned some French and German at school, but have forgotten most of it now.


Your Birthdate: October 30
You have the type of personality that people either love or hate.
You're opinionated, dramatic, intense, and very outspoken.
And some people can't get enough of you - they're totally addicted.
Others, well, they wish you were a little more reserved.
Your strength: Your flair
Your weakness: If you think it, you say it
Your power color: Scarlet red
Your power symbol: Inverted triangle
Your power month: March What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

My Interests



Things I like: fast moving clouds, Ingrid Bergman, marshmallows, Paris and Amsterdam, Marmite on burnt toast, 1969, birds singing outside my window, MSN chats with Gilbert and Jonz, the colour blue, my old shoes, Easter time, plane journeys, houmus, Robert Redford, my evil twin Gordon#1, Felixstowe, Kirsty MacColl (look her up on Google), Turkish Delight, looking at the sea, sunflowers, Cala san Vicente in Majorca, fresh bread, sausages, Croyde Bay, Judy Collins, Dolly Parton, cowboys, more sausages, Little Britain, carrot cake, chocolate cake, Italian wine, Felixstowe, Sophia Loren.



I wrote your name in the sky, But the wind blew it away, I wrote your name in the sand, But the waves washed it away, I wrote your name in my heart, And forever it will stay.

Memories of Derek Jarman, a truly gifted British film director

Anyone can light a candle,
But not the way that you do.

I'd like to meet:



Your Deadly Sins
Wrath: 40%
Envy: 20%
Lust: 20%
Sloth: 20%
Gluttony: 0%
Greed: 0%
Pride: 0%
Chance You'll Go to Hell: 14%
You will die, after conquering the world as an evil dictator. How Sinful Are You?

Joan Baez & Bob Dylan

Music:

JOAN BAEZ
ANNIE LENNOX

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My Blog

Dying of a broken heart

Extract from The Times newspaper, England, February 19, 2007Dolphin "dying of a broken heart after trainer is killed" When a young dolphin was rescued from the Adriatic Sea, distressed and bruised, s...
Posted by Gordon from the country on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:17:00 PST

Anti-gay remarks

 (extract of an email I received today 07 March 2007)  ..> Help put an end to the politics of hate. Tell the Universal Press Syndicate to stop carrying Ann Coulter's column...
Posted by Gordon from the country on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:51:00 PST

Should jargon be banned by law?

This is an extract from a letter to an English newspaper on the clichés and empty phraseology that politicians love to inflict on us.Sir - I am prepared to become a politician in order to get jargon (...
Posted by Gordon from the country on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:43:00 PST

This time last week I was in Turkey

I have returned home from a visit to my friend Deniz at his home on the Turkish/Syrian border. It to three car rides, two bus journeys and three plane flights to get home, but I had the most interesti...
Posted by Gordon from the country on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:19:00 PST

Is life more violent?

This is a completely true story which happened to me yesterday, January 29, 2007. David and I went to our local food store, about 10 minutes from our house, because we needed to buy simple stuff like ...
Posted by Gordon from the country on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:19:00 PST

I am determined to remain calm

The past few days have been very strange. So many things have happened which could have left me quite stressed, but thankfully I remained more or less calm.Stressful event #1Three days ago David got a...
Posted by Gordon from the country on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:24:00 PST

Home from hospital

In a previous blog I mentioned that I was waiting to go into hospital for heart surgery. On August 4th I had a triple bypass operation at Papworth Hospital in England and I am pleased to report that t...
Posted by Gordon from the country on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:36:00 PST

Watching out for the mailman

Yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far in this part of England. I was thirsty all day long because of the heat and it was not helped by the fact that I have to take water tablets two or thre...
Posted by Gordon from the country on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:45:00 PST

CD Baby loves Gordon

I bought a CD online today, nothing unusual about that I hear you say. No, but when the invoice was emailed backed to me it had the following message with it:- Your CD has been gently taken from our C...
Posted by Gordon from the country on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:25:00 PST

Letter from Russia

I felt rather sad today after hearing that the movie actress Elizabeth Taylor may be suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's. In the winter of 1974 while on holiday in St. Petersburgh, Russia, ...
Posted by Gordon from the country on Sun, 28 May 2006 02:52:00 PST