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Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Teacher
Location Poland
Introduction Roman Catholic, married, father and grandfather. Former banker, investment consultant, project worker in London homelessness charities. I taught for seven years in a Catholic school in Poland, and now am busy teaching adults, translating and proof-reading.
Interests philology, reading poetry, writing verse, music, playing flute, saxophone, sailing, learning, Polish parties (very sui generis), people
Favorite Movies Some Like It Hot, High Noon, Duck Soup (anything with Marx Brothers), Bulldog Breed (anything with Norman Wisdom), Passion of the Christ, Potop
Favorite Music Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Chopin, Saint-Saens, Plainsong, pre-war blues, pre-war jazz, Thelonious Monk, Sydney Bechet
Favorite Books Father Brown, anything by Chesterton or Raymond Chandler, Homer, Sappho, Catullus, Pope, Dryden, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, T. L Peacock, Villon (all in random order).