Michael Hennessy
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | parliamentary official |
| Location | Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Robustly Catholic man, married with seven sons and one delightful baby daughter, home-schooling, approaching a mid-life crisis, too fond of fine food and finer wine, (all of which will make said crisis more bearable than otherwise): born in Liverpool, education *peaking* in Oxford (Oriel College), now working in London (in the Mother of All Parliaments - ahem), living in south Reading, dreaming of rural France and hoping for Heaven... |
| Interests | Family, calligraphy and illumination, ecclesiastical architecture, military history, Catholic literature, European jazz, |
| Favorite movies | Kanal, The English Patient, Babette's Feast, Blade Runner, Branagh's Hamlet, Brideshead Revisited (I know - not a movie) |
| Favorite music | Tomasz Stanko, John Martyn, Joni Mitchell, Gillian Welch, Dakota Suite, Eleni Karaindrou, The Grateful Dead |
| Favorite books | Belloc's Essays, the Diary of a Country Priest (by Bernanos), In Parenthesis (by David Jones), There's A Devil In The Drum (by John Lucy), Brideshead Revisited, the historical/literary biographies of D B Wyndham Lewis, Patrick Leigh Fermor's unfinished travel trilogy |
When you open your eyes underwater, do you ever worry that you'll drown?
Never done it - so never worried. Don't like water, prefer wine. Especially fine Burgundies.