John
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired from full time work, ocassional drama teacher and tutor |
| Location | Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Retired from full-time work in education in 2016 and relishing opportunity to explore many neglected interests and places.Writing this blog as a way of exploring the experience of retirement as it happens but also looking at issues not restricted to retirement. Hopefully providing some entertainment and useful insights along the way and looking to communicate with others sharing similar experiences. |
| Interests | Drama, music, hypnotherapy, food, wine, trying to stay alive |
| Favorite movies | Taxi driver, three colours trilogy, alien, fantasia, east of Eden, of mice and men,the producers, no country for old men,anchorman |
| Favorite music | Dylan, Mitchell, King Crimson, Beatles, Who, Radiohead,Mazzy Star, Richard Thompson, Low, King Creasote, Miles Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Sufjan Stevens, Teenage Fanclub, too many to mention! |
| Favorite books | Anything by Ian Mckewan, Roal Dahl, Martin Amis, Milan Kundera, Donna Tartt |
When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?
No I added them to my gin and tonic