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Overview

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  • Fluent in English; learning French, German
  • 47, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • pottering about an opera house
  • lots of abstractions
  • From hemel hempstead
  • Profile 65% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

learn a portable skill

PHILOSOPHY

hello! interested in finding things out and coming up with a few rules of thumb but usually happy to start again if theres new evidence.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

im not sure yet as ive only just started. i really enjoy meeting new folk so im happy to show people around some of the best coffee places in london and to use visitors as an excuse to see places i wouldnt usually visit.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

sleeping on friend's sofa, in their beds, in their bathtubs (dripping tap woke up with wet socks).

Interests

keyboard instruments, graphology, songwriting, classical/folk/experimental/pop music, easy tasty cheap meals, the unusual.

  • coffee
  • music

Music, Movies, and Books

on my mantle piece at the moment: tarnation, coffee & cigarettes, the night porter, tron, satiricon, blood for dracula, in bruges, burn after reading, freaks, paris texas.

also on the mantle piece (is it one word or 2?): master & margarita, the beats compendium, uovo 17, fear of drowning, the essential gore vidal, saki complete short stories, how to become a virgin, niagara (mary woronov).

listening to: his name is alive, judy collins, beginners guide to bollywood, michael nyman, john cage.

Teach, Learn, Share

oh gosh ive no idea. we might have to talk about that to find out who knows what.

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