The Day After Yesterday..
I'm retired. Yippee!
I am settled in Southwater, near Horsham, West Sussex, in my park home on a lovely quiet site, enjoying the peace.
I belong to an art class and really enjoy walks most days. I do have a lot of hobbies an interests.
I would like to meet a lady around my age.
I have twin boys and a daughter and have 6 grandchildren.....so far.
Work was always in the travel industry. I then chose to run my own pub with my family for 9 years.
Divorced in 2004. (We are still friends). Packed everything in and escaped to Switzerland. as chef in a ski chalet, catering for up to 240 people.
In 2012 I was a cast member at the London Paralympic games, performing at both the opening and closing ceremonies. There are so many more adventures I want to have like that...... not necessarily in front of so many people!!
I have just been on a walking holiday to Italy (Umbria) 'Solo'. And have booked again for next year as it was so good. Why not, I appreciate a bottle of good wine with my meal.
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Now retired. I love travelling. Previously in the Travel Industry with Thomas Cook for 24 years before running my own pub for 9 years and after a spell with a wine merchant was Chef for the Ski Company - cooking for up to 240 school kids. Did get to ski lots which was a bonus!
Can't remember. Grammar I think.
Christian. I go to church.
Green
Interests
Fluent reading wine labels in all languages!
Musical Instruments played
Car CD and drumming on steering wheel!
Skiing - I'm a fanatic skier and went every year. Long walks and hiking and Kayaking.
Concerts, Eating Out, Walking, Bird watching.Hiking, Health and Fitness walks, Painting, Travel, Art.Use my rail pass to get to the countryside and London, travelling (of course) and walks which normally finish with coffee at a country pub. Exhibitions, wine tasting. I go to Southwater parish church. Lots of other stuff - if anyone is interested.
Culture
France, Living France and I'll flick through Country Life etc in the dentist waiting room.
'Down and Out in Paris and London' and '1984', by George Orwell. 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess. 'A Farewell to Arms' by Ernest Hemingway, '500 mile walkies' by Mark Wallington, Also 'All Quiet on the Western Front', 'Morvern Callar' and the 'Lonely Planet Guide' of the country I'm going to, oh and 'Short Walks to Country Pubs'.
Sideways (about wine), The Deer Hunter, Doctor Zhivago, The Graduate, The Sting, All Quiet on the Western Front (in black and white), Nineteen Eighty Four. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Midnight Cowboy, The Godfather but only parts 1 & 2, Some Like It Hot. Life is Beautiful..........
Classical, especially choral. Currently listening to everything composed by Tippett, Faure and Ravel. Bryan Ferry Oh and Tears For Fears always playing in the car.
Pleasures
Restaurant, Art Gallery - Visited the Van Gogh exhibition recently. Meal, Pub, Wine bar, Musical, Theatre. Saw Bryan Ferry in concert in Newcastle - wow.
Had the best dog in the world - Sasha, a German Shepherd.
My 4 favourite meals that I've ever had were - Pate de Foie Gras with bottle of Monbazillac in Bergerac, White Snapper, Greek salad and Feta with half litre of Retsina in Kos, 12 Oysters with bottle of chilled Muscadet in Le Touquet and the 6 oysters and a bottle of 'Oyster Bay' Sauvignon Blanc in Swanage that summer camping with my son Stephen.
Walking holiday in Umbria, Italy. One more go at Skiing in Zermatt, Switzerland. Weekend in Lymington.........who knows.
About Me
Adventurous, bit shy, optimistic. Affectionate, Caring and Friendly.
I am fun to be with, so it is said, intelligent, reliable, sensitive... very sensitive, a bit stubborn so I'm told, sociable, kind and honest.
Wine industry, running my own chalet in the French Alps, or maybe a travel writer.