Bucks Retronaut
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Real Estate |
| Occupation | Self employed General Dealer and Spiv. |
| Location | Buckinghamshire Badlands, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I live in total confusion, in a country churchyard with my wife, 3 sons and an exceptionally pretty little lurcher bitch.Am uncertain which of these have the greater claim over my affections. I muck about on the fringes of the Property and Antiques market, and like old 1930s leather motoring coats,Levi 501s , Hacking Jackets, Clarks desert boots,and Church`s shoes,(reserved for trips out , Sundays ,and "London Jobs"). Can`t be doing with Redtop Journalism ,"Celebs",so-called"Reality" television programmes ,bite-sized "culture" ,mean-spiritedness,boring people,(that`s them, not me,mind ) and the crimes,lunacies,and much worse, perpetrated under the fraudulent guise of political correctness.I am totally amazed by the Internet.I really don`t want to capitulate completely to corrosive cynicism but am afraid it might just be a bit too late.Think I ought to be a journalist or something, when, and if ever, I grow up and before life as I know and cherish it goes totally threepennies up. It`s All Got To Stop! In the meantime its called KBO. |
| Interests | The Sound of My Own Voice ,Re-reading and editing this load of old rubbish,Getting Out More,Transport Caffs,Inns,as opposed to 4 Ale Bars ,Robert Doisneau,Henri Cartier-Bresson,Antiques,Vintage Cars,Hacker Radios,The R.N.L.I., Leica cameras,NLP,Travellers,but not Pikeys,Bacon Sandwiches, Telling myself that I`m better now than I ever have been,well,someone`s got to ,Rudyard Kipling,Sunday Lunch,Elegant Decay and Patination, Halfway decent non-boring People,Integrity,Giles cartoons,Louisiana,Mods,Road Trips, My Best Friend, Crossing the English Channel, as often as possible and by whatever means might be then available ,Karaoke with my mate Niall,Gin,Claret, Bitter,but only if this last is flat and warm,and Bollinger,preferably all to be taken in industrial quantities but not necessarily at the same time,Fortnum and Mason,Heinz Tomato Ketchup,Quantum Physics,Vespas,Winston Churchill,GoogleEarth,Private and spontaneous runs ashore, Red Meat,Narrow Boats,Motor Torpedo Boats,Lurchers,Strong sweet real black coffee ,Ionian islands,The "London Job",(Gawd bless yer,Ma`am) Cashmere Socks,Selsey Bill, Bognor Regis, Leighton Buzzard, Kensington and Chelsea, Aylesbury,Alan Clarke MP, Bridges, River Thames, Airstream Trailers,Generously upholstered Italian actress ladies from the 50`s and 60s, Caravans,American Muscle Cars,Bentleys,Aston Martins, Bristols,(fnarr,fnarr!)in the meantime,Saabs,and Volvos, Mates from A.G.S.,Poking about and looking at things,Dungeness,Pagham Harbour,Walton Backwaters,Arts and Crafts Movement,Irregulars, Tony Benn,Buckingham,John Ruskin, William Morris,12 string, National guitars, Dobro guitars, Resonator guitars,Lutyens architecture,Voysey architecture,Intelligent design,Riva speedboats,Jane Birkin,Paris,Seeing Men about Dogs,Venice,Douarnenez,The A3,The Hogs Back ,the road from Petersfield to Chichester, Thunderdell,and oh yes, Marianne Faithfull,That`s got to be about it.(There`s only just so much time ...... Give a bloke a fighting chance). |
| Favorite movies | Zulu,The Man who would be King,East of Ipswich,Wish You Were Here,Das Boot,Blues Brothers,The Sweeney,Michael Caine,Irene Handl, Dr. Zhivago,Stalingrad,Italian Job, (original version only,please), Un Homme et une Femme,Mrs Miniver,Steve McQueen,The Great Escape,Le Mans,Abel Gance, "Napoleon",Albert Dieudonne,Silvana Mangano,Brief Encounter,Beryl Reid,Ptangyangkipperbang,If,A Man for All Seasons,Minder,Waterloo,Anna Magnani,Pretty Woman,Bitter Rice,Emeric Pressburger,Two-lane Blacktop,Dunkirk, Emily Lloyd,Miranda Richardson, Joseph Losey, Ealing studios, Judi Dench,Pinewood Studios,Benny Hill,Withnail and I,Witness,Vittorio de Sica,Blazing Saddles,Midnight Cowboy,Mel Brookes,Night of the Hunter,Thunder Road,Robert Mitchum,Stand by Me,Virginia McKenna,Ptang Yang Kipperbang |
| Favorite music | Rolling Stones, Juliette Greco,Baroque,J J Cale,Handel,Blues,Leadbelly,Robert Johnson,Willie Nelson,Bizet,Eric Coates especially "In Town Tonight"and "Knightsbridge March",Motown,Salvation Army,James Taylor,Melanie Safka,Neil Young,Hymns,Chants,Psalms, Plainsong,Enya,Tanita Tikaram,Eric Coates,Albert Ketelby,Arlo Guthrie,early Rod Stewart,Cat Stevens,Pet Shop Boys, Bert Jansch, Randy Edelman,Harry Chapin,Marvin Gaye,Otis Redding,Edith Piaf,Leonard Cohen,Au fond du temple saint, Wagner,Vaughan Williams,The Band,Francoise Hardy,A Whiter Shade of Pale,George Butterworth,Tallis,La Cathedrale Engloutie,Debussy,George Melly,The Band,J S Bach ,Springsteen ,Edith Piaf,Soozie Tyrell, Puccini ,Dvorak,Bessie Smith,Massenet,Eric Clapton,Waterloo Sunset, Paddy Roberts,Mark Knopfler ,Bonzo Dog Doodah Band,Small Faces,Emma Kirkby,Duffy,Anna Netrebko, (phwoar!),Cream,R`n B,Soul,Julie Driscoll,Steampacket, House of the Rising Sun,City of New Orleans,Maria Callas,B B King,Tift Merritt,The Animals,John Stewart,Dolly Parton,Maurice Jarre,John Barry,Chris Rea,P.P.Arnold,Aretha Franklin,Ray Davies,First Cut is the Deepest,The Kinks,Dire Straits,Procol Harum,Dr John Rebennack,The Night Tripper,Spencer Davis,John Mayall,Alexis Korner,Reggae |
| Favorite books | 7 Pillars of Wisdom,Reeds Nautical Almanac,Unmitigated England,Sacred Thames, John Mortimer,Rumpole of the Bailey, John Betjeman,Eric Newby,Architecture of Happiness ,The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthasar B, The Ginger Man, and in fact just about anything by J.P.Donleavy.Alain de Botton,Bill Bryson ,News from Nowhere,I know you got Soul,Jeremy Clarkson,Hilaire Belloc,Giles cartoons,Jonathan Raban,Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell,Paul Thoreau,Diseases of the Cat,Pevsner,Jonathan Meades,Shell county guides,H E Bates,J.D.Sleightholme,Speak to the Hand,Lynne Truss,Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Sh*t? |