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Geoffrey

Howdy Folks ... nice of you to drop by!

About Me

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Andrew's cat.

An Eye in the Sky.

Andrew's Fight Animation.
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My Interests

Writing, walking, video photography, computers, astronomy, drawing, swimming, watching and collecting DVD films, cinema, pub meals, thinking.
Click below for a video I made and a poem I wrote after the 'Blood Moon' lunar eclipse of 3rd March 2007 ...

I'd like to meet:

Keira Knightly, Rachael Leigh Cook, Kate Winslett, Scarlett Johansenn, Naomi Watts, Emma Kirkby, Richard Dawkins, Edward. O. Wilson, Jonathan Miller, Woody Allen.(Click for larger view.)

Music:

I suppose my tastes in music are generally mainstream. My favourite artists and groups are Bruce Springsteen, Queen, Abba, Don Maclean, Razorlight, Sting, Blondie, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Dido, Simon and Garfunkel (either individually or together) etc. I also like a lot of works by classical and contemporary composers such as Handel, J.S.Bach, Prokofiev, Carl Nielsen, Bela Bartok, Paul Hindemith, Gustav Holst, Brahms, early church music by such composers as Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tallis, and Byrd. Favourite classical singers are the sopranos Emma Kirkby, Helen Hunt and the counter tenor Drew Minter.

Movies:

The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Jim Carrey, Kate Winslett), Peter Pan (Jeremy Sumpter, Rachel Hurd-Wood) , Vanilla Sky (Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz), Gattaca, A.I. (Artificial Intelligence), Match Point (Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansenn), Spy Kids, Carousel, West Side Story, The End of the Affair (Julianne Moore, Ralph Fiennes) ec. etc.

Television:

Not a lot on that grabs my interest.

Books:

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger, You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hayes, The Aristos by John Fowles, The Grand Inquisitor (from Dostoyevsky's book The Brothers Karamazov), Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

Heroes:

Professor Richard Dawkins, Jonathan Miller, Sir John Betjemen, John Lennon, V. I. Lenin, Carl Sagan, Jane Asher, Fay Weldon, Joanna Lumley, Princess Diana, Our kid ...

Our Nemo ...

(Below) Some of my early paintings (circa 1987)

'Girl with dog.'

'Children gathering flowers.'

'River Seine.'

'Rounding the Cape.'

Taking on Ice.'

Cottage.

My Pissarro Copy.

My Blog

Healthy Cross, French Club, meetings with friends old and new.

The week's been another good one. Highlights were a meeting with Vicky from Healthy Cross on Tuesday afternoon, the first French Club of the term on Tuesday evening and a day spent with some frie...
Posted by Geoffrey on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:32:00 PST

Steve's broadband, dentists (ARGHH!!) and BMX biking.

This week's been quite a busy one. I got a friend's computer working on broadband a week ago. Took my son to the dentist. Went to the dentist myself. Thursday I was invited to meet someone by my ...
Posted by Geoffrey on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:23:00 PST

Driving, dining and siteseeing.

Things were a lot fresher this morning after last night's thunderstorm. A friend rang to ask if I wanted to go for a drive with her. We had a nice meal and then went to see Keppel's Column - an ancien...
Posted by Geoffrey on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:47:00 PST

Old friend, absent friends, new camera.

Last Thursday I met up with a friend I've known for over twenty years but only recently (i.e. since last Christmas) renewed that friendship with. I think she enjoyed my visit. I arranged to phone agai...
Posted by Geoffrey on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:57:00 PST

Notes for Friday the 14th and Saturday 15th

Early hours of Sunday. Last Friday is destined to become a memorable day. Having arranged to sit in on a friend's driving - a friend who is taking her driving test next week - we spent the better part...
Posted by Geoffrey on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 04:44:00 PST

A brief final report for today

Today has been quite an eventful one. Did a lot of tidying up - but there's still plenty that needs doing. Part of 'getting things together' has also to be keeping them clean and tidy. Now my 'sp...
Posted by Geoffrey on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:09:00 PST

A brief first message on a bright sunny morning

Hi, and thanks for visiting. Guess it's time I put something onto my blog. There's currently quite a lot happening in my life one way or another. Sometimes it's hard to know which way to turn. I ...
Posted by Geoffrey on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:49:00 PST