CURRENT MISSION

Keeping winter warm and summer hot...

ABOUT ME

Scottish, Blonde, white in winter & red in summer...
Married to Magali McBonvin... Ma favourite Swiss cow...
Have lived & worked in several countries.Australia/France/Germany/ Spain/& now Switzerland.
I'm generally positive, blindly optimistic and thrive on humour, Irony & drink

PHILOSOPHY

Make as many mistakes as you can... Somehow learn from the process...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

1st step -sign up... Next step - let's see...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Once in Iceland... And it rocked....

Interests

Music - I play Harmonica, trash Guitar & any instrument when completely away with the mixer.
Music - Vast sums of my personal wealth have been spent on concerts, bizarre festivals and generally expanding my record collection (this could be a bad thing?).
Gardening - recently got back into this with a friend and can claim it's good for the soul. Everything from strawberries/herbs to tatties/pumpkin.
Cooking - An everyday event which I love... I cook, Magali does the dishes (how good is that!!)
Cycling/football/table tennis/darts/petanque/cloud watching/etc
Dancing - I have a unique style but love it anyway...
Travelling - We are always dreaming up new places to visit and appreciate that there is always loads to discover just around the corner.

• concerts
• festivals
• dancing
• cooking
• drinking
• gardening
• boating
• traveling
• darts
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• soccer
• tennis
• table tennis
• rowing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies - Whisky Galore, Blood Simple, The Duellists, the Wicker man, Man Bites Dog, The Endless summer, j'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster, The night of the Hunter, The Powerpuff Girls, Ren & Stimpy... Etc Etc..

Music - ALL MUSIC FROM PUNK TO POP...Josh Ritter, The Black Lips, Dick Gaughan, Art Brut, Orange Juice, Edwin Collins, Alfred Brendel, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Hank Williams, Clinic, Daft Punk, Elvis, The Bees, El Pero Del Mar, Django Reinhardt, Jimmy Reed, Joy Division, Lee Scratch perry, The Smiths, The Saints, The Dickies, The Undertones, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Teenage Fanclub, Pink, Miss Dynamite, The Cramps, The Flaming Stars, The Meters, Trojan Records, Soundflat Records, In the red Records, Voodoo Rhythm records and this could go on and on so I'll stop

BOOKS - Currently reading Spanish cook books, French Grammar books (with varying degrees of success) The Road, Springtime for Germany, What we talk about when we talk about love, Push & Please kill me (the uncensored oral history of Punk).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We grew up on a wee Island where a seal used to follow our rowing boat to school...

Busked around Europe in a kilt...(1989)...

Managed shops in Germany

Ran a bar in Corsica

Cycled over the Alps, around Tunisia, Ireland, the highlands¨

Played with a stack of bands

first kissed my wife in a lesbian bar...

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