Jake Allsop
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired |
| Location | East Anglia, Fen Country, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Retired, two children, six grandchildren and some good friends. Planning to live so long that my pension company will put out a contract on me. |
| Interests | birding, swifts, barnowls, conservation, lepidoptera, languages, writing, grandparenting, laughing, crosswords |
| Favorite movies | The Apartment, Amarcord, The Magnificent Seven, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Tombstone, Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita, Schindler's List, Raid on Entebbe, and many more |
| Favorite music | MJQ and all kinds of jazz, A lot of Mozart (who doesn't?), A lot of Bach (who doesn't?), Most Italian opera, Jake Thackray (Who?) |
| Favorite books | Nonfiction: Some of the "Primers for the Age of Plenty" (You had to be there), Fermat's Last Theorem (Singh) and similar books, Turkish Grammar (Lewis)and grammars of other languages, Archie and Mehitabel (Don Marquis), Various other poets, Birds Wild and Free (AWP Robertson), and many more Fiction: Very little, mostly read on holiday. I Promessi Sposi (Manzoni) Les Allumettes Suedoises (Sabatier) + the other two in the trilogy A lot of Michael Crighton Some John Grisham All the Sherlock Holmes stuff |
What would you wear for camouflage if you were hiding in a gingerbread house?
Nobody here but us chickens, bro.