Rustic at heart with contemporary twist!

About Me

I love Gardening / Sailing / Outdoor Walking in all weathers. That's the physical bit..

Culturally - I love reading - watching films and quality TV (whenever you can get that) - and all aspects of photography - whether it's landscape, objects or people.

As an update - now pursuiing my own living and no longer working for anyone else - scary but fun!! For pleasure I am never happier than being caked in mud in my boots in the garden or tinkering about with something in order to restore, adapt or improve it. I also intend to get myself a dog - a big energetic one after years of promising it.

Oh - and this year my Land Rover has been around and about - doing some shows but also getting stuck into work in the FOULEST weather you can imagine - get out the wellies!!

Life motto:

As Helmut Newton (photographer) said: "only the talentless have no obsessions".

Member Since

Dec 10, 2007

What is the next...

Purchase you’ll make?

Outdoor kettle that burns any old scraps of wood and makes boiling water in minutes - perfect for the beach and those inaccessible days out when Starbucks isn't around the corner!

Trend in design?

English country and Italian contemporary

Car you’d like to own?

Alfa Romeo 105 series Bertone 2 door coupe GTV - fully restored and Kraz 255 military 6x6 truck with the 20" tyres

Big step you’d like to make?

Be really successful as a self employed man without working for anyone again

Fad that will fade?

minimalist kitchens - oh God let's hope so!!

Vacation you’ll take?

Poland

Thing you’re going to fight for?

Recognition & respect for all the right things

Secret that’s going to leak?

How in crippling debt everyone is

Hollywood blockbuster going to be about?

The joy of ordinary simple pleasures

Life you’ll lead?

Personal, special, rewarding, happy

Fountain of youth?

Wellington boots - and the freedom they bring as you stomp about in them

Book you’ll read?

Nigel Slater's "Toast"

Thing that will change the world?

The 1st truly global village recession

Guilty-pleasure food in which you’ll indulge?

Sticky winter puddings with lashings of warm creamy custard

Person to whom you’ll say, “I love you”?

Everyone I love