Anything to do with computing, Folk Music, especially Irish and Scottish, classical music and jazz - especially performed live, Randy Newman, Billy Connoly, Dylan Thomas, Craft - woodwork and pyrography especially, Celtic Knot design , Nine Men's Morris, growing cacti, growing orchids, weaving, kumihimo, eating out at my favourite Spanish Restaurant, a jar or three of ale, not necessarily in that order, and many more too numerous to mention. I'd welcome an e-mail from kindred spirits interested in any of these people/things.

My background

I hail originally from Johnstown, a little village on the outskirts of Carmarthen in South Wales. I did my degree in Cardiff University and from there went to teach maths in Barry for ten years. I then moved to Cardiff, spending eighteen years there as head of maths and computing at Llanedeyrn High School. A heart attack forced me to take early retirement and I then moved to Merthyr Tydfil. Having survived another two heart attacks, thanks to the excellent care of the staff of Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr, and Ospedale Santa Maria, Borgo Val Di Taro, Italy, I still enjoy life, albeit at a slightly slower rate than previously. I have managed to be in one choir or another since I was a teenager. First as a pupil, then at the school where I first taught, in Barry, under chorus master Dyfrig Thomas. When I moved to Cardiff I joined Cardiff Male Choir, and from there I spent thirteen great years with one of the best choirs around - well, I think so anyway -Cantorion Ardwyn Caerdydd, The Cardiff Ardwyn Singers, a mixed choir of, then, about 45 voices, under the inspired musical direction of Helena Braithwaite M.B.E., their MD. When I moved to Merthyr I joined another great choir, the Dowlais Male Choir, and, happily, have been with them ever since. I'm also a member of a third great choir, the Gwent Bach Society, a mixed choir based in Abergavenny.

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