The Good Doctor
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Doctor |
| Location | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa |
| Introduction | I am a former fighter pilot, flying instructor and instrument rating examiner who gave it all up to become a doctor - needless to say with a strong interest in Aerospace Medicine. I am married with three children and seven grandchildren. Politically I would describe myself as a radical centrist. I love Europe but hate the EU. I am the kindest and mildest of men as long as I get my own way. |
| Interests | Photography, Video making, Myth and Legend, Theatre - particularly AmDram in which I act and direct, Travel, Languages, Sacred Geometry, Churches and Cathedrals. |
| Favorite movies | Four Weddings and a Funeral, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Notting Hill, The Sound of Music, Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources (Fr.),The Seventh Seal, As it is in Heaven (Swed.) |
| Favorite music | Bach St.Matthew Passion, Beethoven 9th. Symphony, Mozart Requiem, Haydn Lord Nelson Mass, Monteverdi Vespers, Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1, All Beethoven's other music, All Bach's other music,all Chopin's Piano Music, and practically all choral music, in fact there isn't much that I don't like except composers like Schoenberg who offend my ear. |
| Favorite books | All the Hornblower novels, The Song of Bernadette, Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, the Kalevala, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, all Laurence Gardener's books, the Uddhava Gita, Edvard Radzinsky's The Last Tsar, Richard Hillary's The Last Enemy. |