At present this page is little more than some links connected with my various interests. In time I may add more content. Contents Theatre Language Music and Dance Science Fiction Conventions Personal development Mathematics Railways and Canals Theatre I have only been doing (as opposed to watching) theatre since 1991, but at various times I have been active in: Theatre in the Mill , home of the now defunct BUTG (Bradford University Theatre Group). BUSOM (Bradford University Society for Operettas and Musical
I have a listing of my past and scheduled theatrical activities here Language I have been dabbling in languages for over 50 years. My first specific memory is when my parents gave me a copy of The Tree of Language by Helene and Charlton Laird for my ninth birthday, but presumably this was because I was already showing signs of interest. In my teens I used to get Teach Yourself books out of the library, with their distinctive blue and yellow dust-jackets (they weren't in paperback then). My father went to Ja
I learnt Morris dancing with Granta Morris in Cambridge from 1986, and danced with both them and Cromwell Morris (in Huntingdon) until I left Cambridge in 1991. Both sides now appear to be defunct (there is a "Granta Blue Morris" in Cambridge, but that is a later foundation). When I came to Bradford, I joined Boars Head Morris Men until their demise in 2006, and now dance and occasionally play with Great Yorkshire Morris . I also dance with Highside Longsword when we are out on Boxing day and Plough Sunday.