CURRENT MISSION

My current mission is to get as much out of life as I can without compromising my ability to be wild and free and take life as it comes. I look forward to the future with optimism, it will bring me luck, but be prepared 'cause I may just fuck it up.

ABOUT ME

I am a little slow, fairly reserved and am shocked when I enjoy attention. I am a bit scruffy and don't enjoy being spick and span. I live with Nellie and have done for 35 years. We have 3 children, now all left home. Nellie is more spick and span then me. She is a community psychiatric nurse. I have spent most of my life as a builder but am now a musician/busker. We don't have a TV but spend too much time on facebook. We have travelled a fair bit before we had children and are ready to get going again.

PHILOSOPHY

When I remember to, I want to experience every moment, When I don't remember I probably am experiencing every moment.
We are gentle peace loving relatively low consuming people

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting and guesting

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

To now we have had 5 excellent hosting experiences and expect to do a bit of being a guest soonish

Interests

A list. Music, economics, cultures, film and filming,
writing songs, art, numbers, social comment, ecology,
the brain and the mind, phiolosophy and alternative education. Most of the above from an amateur uneducated and possibly ill informed but heartfelt way.

• arts
• writing
• education
• walking
• tv
• music
• ecology
• economics
• teaching
• nursing

Music, Movies, and Books

I enjoy particularly English low budget arthouse films, and invariably dislike Hollywood blockbusters.
I don't read a lot but enjoy social and science fiction and books about the brain and the mind. Nell reads loads of novels. I enjoy among others, ska, reggae, folk, trad jazz, prog rock, dub and world music, but usually don't enjoy Madonna or Sinatra. I prefer bad live music in a pub to good music in a large venue. I need ear plugs for very loud music but do enjoy jungle, d&b, techno. Most of all I enjoy playing acoustic instruments with mates around a fire in the woods.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It feels like everything has been amazing so far. Last night I saw a ska band. They were my most recent amazing event other than today walking in the rain in the woods, or in fact this evening sitting by a log fire. You could say I am easily amazed.

Teach, Learn, Share

I don't feel I have any particular teach/learn/share speciality but can exchange ways of seeing the world with those who have other ways to show me. As the years pass I have come to feel I have fewer and fewer opinions and am more open to consider the views of others, other than when I am being particularly stubborn of course.

What I Can Share with Hosts

We can usually be very interested in you, and try hard to create a comfortable hospitable stay.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Netherlands