John Evans

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Gender Male
Industry Non-Profit
Occupation Retired
Location Nottingham, United Kingdom
Introduction Retired at the start of 2010 after spending many years as Chief Executive of a homelessness charity on the south coast of England. Now realising that there really are enough hours in the day to do everything. Moved to Nottingham to be nearer my sons, and to bask in the glow of Robin Hood - there's quite a bit of that here. I can be contacted at john.evans211@gmail.com
Interests music, local history, egyptian history, criminal justice, social welfare, robin hood, walking, ice cream, coffee
Favorite Movies Casablanca, Shawshank Redemtion, The Green Man, Far from the Madding Crowd, Shrek, Star Wars, X Files
Favorite Music Queen, Beatles, Elvis Pressley, Buddy Holly, Rolling Stones, Elbow, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, Ray Charles, Coleman Hawkins, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, Lightening Hopkins, The Blues Band, Russian classical music
Favorite Books Stephen Fry autobiographies, Life of Pi, One of the Damned, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Under Milk Wood, Nineteen Eighty Four, Round Ireland with a Fridge, Some of my best friends are blues, John Betjeman collected poems, How Green was my Valley, Exit Music, All Together Now, Arthur & George, Canning Circus, Life on Air, Letters from a Nut, Selected Poems of Jonathan Swift