| Ok a little about me, I am a Lancashire lad, raised mostly in and around Manchester, Red Rose country. Needless to say Man U <United> is the football team I follow. I have travelled to numerous countries mainly due to having been in the armed forces, many moons ago. I now stay in Dunbar, Scotland, have lived here for over 20 yrs and love the place, East Coast, not too far from Edinburgh and not too far from the Border either, just incase they decide to ethnic cleanse the English as my mates keep promising :) Occupation For a living I operate heavy earth moving equipment ie; dozers, dumpers, diggers, Z z z z z z z z z z 's, only claim to fame ( sad ) once flattened a Landrover with a Cat777 dumper, the best part of 200tons loaded, no contest, and it was the foremans too, ouch, dont you just hate it when that happens, yeah and it was his fault. I was stationary and this guy parked his landrover right next to my dumptruck on the blindside and walked off and left it there, so when I started to move forwards with right hand lock on I felt this slight bump. I thought nothing of it - just another small rock lying around, so I just carried on and over -Ooooppps :) "fancy parking a landrover there slaphead" he took it quite well actually, went a bit pale for a while, :) thankfully nobody was hurt. |
| Some of my fav films are: - (click on titles for some pics you may not have seen before) The Great Escape, Enter The Dragon, American Graffitti, Easy Rider, Field Of Dreams, Scent Of a Woman, The Crow, Matrix Music I like a broad range of music, anything from the likes of : Moby, Faithless, The Verve, Ministry Of Sound, Any decent Dance music, Some Blues, Sade, The Chemical Bros, U2, J.Hendrix - right thru to good old Nat King Cole, yeah if it's good it's good - simple!! Some of my fav books are: The Prophet / Kahlil Gibran - (Thanks Sis ) Click to see pic of K.Gibran John Muir - from Scotland to the Sierra / Frederick Turner Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance/ Robert M Pirsig The Awakening of Intelligence / J.Krishnamurti Beyond Violence / J.Krishnamurti The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Click to see pic of R.W.Emerson Bring Out The Magic In Your Mind / Al Koran In Tune With The Infinite / Ralph Waldo Trine - (Thanks Mum:)) Click to see pic of R.W.Trine Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Think / Simon Blackburn - (Thanks Bro:)) The Master Key/ Charles.F.Hannel How to Win Friends & Influence people - (Hey I'm only kiddin, but damn I'm sure I've got that book somewhere hehe :) and far too many others to mention |
| My interests are Music, Poetry, a little Philosophy, Computers, Motorbikes, Cars, Swimming, Weight training Used to do martial arts training for years & years, don't now - I just carry a big stick :) also did some boxing training years ago - man that is hard. Fav boxer has to be Roberto Duran (Manos De Piedra) Now I guess I'm just observing and absorbing life in general. If I have any ambition at all then that would be primarily to be content, - & maybe write just one real good kick ass poem before I pop my clogs :) Hey I'm workin on it - Honest |
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| I ghosted a pic of a Landrover onto the dumptruck pic to let you see the size differences, when I squashed said vehicle it was parked on the other (blind) side of Truck. -Ouch !! Oh dear, what a pity - never mind. Both pics are to the best of my knowledge public domain. |
| In the pipeline Hope to put up a little bit of history & info about where I live - Dunbar, namely The Battle of Dunbar, you no doubt have heard about the battles of Culloden & Bannockburn but you probably have'nt heard about the battle Oliver Cromwell had here ? Hope to put up a photo of the house where John Muir was raised, situated in the high street.We have a country park named after him, right next to Belhaven beach which is great for walks etc. And then there's Black Agnes from way back in history, she was some female by all accounts, held out against the English & stopped them taking Dunbar castle - if you would like to see an artists impression of how the castle used to look & photo's of how it looks today click here. |
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