CURRENT MISSION

In-between places and on the move... have crossed the Alps and Brazil is in sight.

ABOUT ME

Ah! this changes all the time. Probably what others say about me is more reliable than what I have to say about me...
But. I guess I like doing things on a whim. I like things that involve not walking on pavement. I like doing things that I haven't done before and doing things that don't make sense. A lot of negatives! If we turn these statements around: I love cycling, I love trying as hard as I can to improve my mind through gorgeous encounters, bits of writing and bracing walks in the Scottish countryside... Fires are good, good company and good singing. All of life's many pleasures. Lets organise, lets change the world...

PHILOSOPHY

'It is not who you are that counts but what you have done and will do.'

'Responsibility is the other face of freedom.'

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Sporadically, hopefully, happily.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have slept on floors, couches, beds and cats all over the world and think it is marvelous.

Interests

umm. exercising the voice-box. nights in with games to play. playing piano to self. drinking teas of all types and in many different ways. reading. writing. knitting. making things with my hands. painting. drawing. watching good stuff on cold mornings.

• cats
• writing
• singing
• cooking
• exercise
• walking
• drinking
• reading
• knitting
• painting
• drawing
• piano
• cycling
• boxing

Music, Movies, and Books

Feist, Camera Obscura, Spirits of the Red City, Vashti Bunyan, Fion Regan, Sea of Bees, Damien Jurado, Beirut, Bon Iver, Conor Oburst, Iron and Wine, Sarah Vaugn, Elvis, Bill Evans, Seabear, Jo Hamilton, Muddy Waters for example.

H.Hesse, J.Updike, P.Roth, M. Robinson, M. Proust, Chaucer, W.Faulkner, W.H. Auden, G. Dyer, Pamuk, Bulgakov, Dostoevsky, Camus, G. Eliot, V. Woolf.

P.P.Pasolini, J.L Godard, L.V.Trier, Lubitsch, Resnais, Maya Deren for example.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most beautiful place I have ever been was Manang in the Himalayas of Nepal. There are not words...

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach a bit of cooking, friendship-bracelet making, songs and singing, piano playing, poi, knitting, how to count to ten in English etc. etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Laos, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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