The Bard of Tysoe
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Bard (and mischief maker) |
| Location | Copeland, Cumbria, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Originally an amateur musician… — yet having worked in IT and marketing communication for a quarter of a century — both as manager and consultant; as well as writing for the Guardian… — the Bard retired for medical reasons; and now devotes his life to keeping as healthy as possible by putting one foot in front of another (badly, but semi-frequently); watching the world, with all its vagaries, go by (in great puzzlement); capturing what he sees (in words and pictures); and trying to leave a trail of happiness in his wake. What matters most to him are beauty, truth, cats, and fairness — in whatever myriad forms they occur — and he despises inequality, greed, fascists, and hate. His favourite occupation is thinking; and he was (therefore) — for a handful of years — the Orchestra of the Swan’s ‘writer in reticence’. You are now, though, most likely to encounter him staring into space, with a thoughtful grin beneath his wonted hat and dark glasses, walking stick in hand, somewhere in the quieter parts of the Northern, North Western, and Western Fells of Lakeland. (He resembles nothing so much as a badly-dressed Herdwick.) |
| Interests | art, science, creativity, words, images, music, food, drink, thought, countryside, truth, beauty, autism, altruism, ecology, environment, people, health, ability, disability, sustainability, hearing, hearing loss, science, news, transport, fairness, justice, etc.… |
| Favorite movies | Local Hero, A Matter of Life and Death, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Time Bandits, Brazil, ¡Three Amigos!, Roxanne, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Despicable Me, and many more… |
| Favorite music | Elgar, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Brahms, Eels, Mozart, Joni Mitchell, Britten, Miles Davis, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, John Coltrane, Elbow, REM, Jeremy Kushnier, Nils Landgren, Joe Jackson, Marc Cohn, Deacon Blue, Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear, Tavener, Caetano Veloso, Mike Nesmith, Crowded House, Schumann, David Sylvian, Del Amitri, Thelonious Monk, JS Bach, The Beatles… – in fact, pretty much everything… |
| Favorite books | The complete works of Shakespeare, Joseph Ashby of Tysoe 1859-1919: A Study of English Village Life, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, The Wind in the Willows, Skellig, A Scots Quair, Moby Dick, The Chambers Dictionary, The Chambers Thesaurus, The Making of the English Working Class, Acts of Defiance, Stuart: A Life Backwards, The National Planning Policy Framework, English Journey, The Seasons: An Elegy for the Passing of the Year, Rebuilt, Angry White Pyjamas, The Sparrow, Gormenghast, Outrage, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Wastage of the Willows, The History of the Countryside, The Nature of Warwickshire, and too, too many more to mention… |