Gender	Male
Occupation	Landlord
Location	Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
Introduction	LVX IN TENEBRIS LUCET
Interests	My interests are wide ranging (antiquarian, botanical, ecclesiastical, esoteric, to name but a few). # Being outdoors and keeping the countryside tidy (NFH, BASC, CA, SCI, B&CC, etc.). # The history of Westbourne, Bournemouth. # Growing unusual vegetables and herbaceous borders. # Camping with my godson's family. # I was churchwarden of my parish church for twelve years. # supporting Hampshire CCC and Dorset (Minor Counties) CCC [Life Member] # Various esoteric subjects.
Favorite movies	Powell-Pressburger films (especially "A Matter of Life & Death"). Ealing Comedies. Good ghost stories and intelligent occult and paranormal films. The Amazing Mr Blunden, Amelie, An American Werewolf in London, An Inspector Calls, The Battle of Britain, The Belstone Fox, Black Narcissus, Blythe Spirit, A Canterbury Tale, Carlton-Browne of the F.O., Charade, Count Dracula (Louis Jourdan 1977), Cruel Intentions, Damage, Dead of Night, Defence of the Realm, The Devil Rides Out, Dominique, Doomwatch, The Day of the Jackal, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Futtock's End, Gawain and the Green Knight, Gone to Earth, Green for Danger, The Green Man, The Halfway House, Harnessing Peacocks, Hue and Cry, I Know Where I'm Going, The Ipcress File, The Italian Job (original version), Kind Hearts & Coronets, The Ladykillers, The Lair of the White Worm, Last Holiday, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Lost Horizon, The Maggie, The Man in the White Suit, A Matter of Life and Death, The Medusa Touch, Night of the Demon (1957), Oh Mr Porter, The Omen, Passport to Pimlico, The Picnic, The Plank, The Railway Children, Random Harvest, The Red Shoes, She, The Secret Garden, The Shooting Party, The Signalman, The Singing Ringing Tree, The Thomas Crown Affair, Threads, The Titfield Thunderbolt, An Ungentlemanly Act, Vice Versa, Went the Day Well, What a Carve Up, Whisky Galore, Whistle Down the Wind, The Wicker Man (original version), The Wizard of Oz, The Woman in Black.
Favorite music	Mostly classical, mostly British, but also a wider selection of the choral repertoire and French organ music of the late nineteenth / early twentieth century. For orchestral music my tastes are mostly the English pastoral composers such as Elgar, Vaughan-Williams, Bax, Walton, Arnold, etc. But, like most people, I have startling exceptions that are usually due to connections or other influences in my life.
Favorite books	The highlights are probably the works of C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien (who lived half a mile away), Charles Williams, Alan Garner, Ursula Le Guin, Lucy M.Boston, Algernon Blackwood, J.B.Priestley, G.K.Chesterton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Mervyn Peake, Fiona McLeod [William Sharp], Guy de Maupassant, Dennis Wheatley (who lived eight miles along the coast), Charles Dickens, R.L.Stevenson (whose house stood in my road), Mary Shelley (who lived on the other side of this town), William Blake, Anthony Trollope, Dorothy L.Sayers, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc, and P.G.Wodehouse. I've always loved hunting adventures - the more graphical and lurid the better! I was brought up on the "Jorrocks" foxhunting books of R.S.Surtees; the boys' hunting adventures of R.M.Ballantyne, Mayne Reid, Zane Grey, and my favourite, "Tiger In Sight", by Astrid Bergman Sucksdorff; books by and about Osa Johnson, Jim Corbett, J.A.Hunter, Patrick Hanley, Jim Bond, Monica Campbell-Martin, Daniel Streeter (Denatured Africa), Maximillian von Rogister (Momella), Ernest Hemmingway, and other classic sportsmen and women.