DevonTed

Ich bin männlich, 54 Jahre alt, und ich lebe in Brixham, Vereinigtes Königreich .

Ich spreche Englisch

Momentanes Level: Enthusiast

• 10m

• Ich bereue...

  I should have travelled MUCH, MUCH more while I was younger. My advice to a younger self would be to get a skill you can do anywhere, then bugger off and do it everywhere; you'll see the world while keeping yourself fed, clothed & sheltered.

• Ich rede immer gerne über...

  I enjoy talking about many, many things, and I'll list a few here in no particular order. Please don't think that I am restricted to these matters alone. After all, There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  Beer and brewing
  Politics
  Faith and religion
  cooking and food
  Technology and computer
  Sailing and yachting

• Etwas ungewöhnliches über mich

  I bake the best Victoria Sponge cake that I have ever had, so much so that I once beat the head of the local Women's Institute in a baking contest, much to her indignation.

• Ich bin ein Experte in...

  Boringly I am an expert in the field of IT, both in cloud-based architectures and the software solutions which run upon them. This is because it's my day job, and I must do something to pay the bills. I am, in fact, what used to be derogatively called a "geek", which means both that I am capable of using polysyllabic words in a sentence and that I can actually bear my own company while fixing some other fool's problem.

• Städte und Länder, die ich besucht habe

  I have mainly only travelled for work, but I have been to Italy, Denmark and Portugal.
  Although I hold a Yachtmaster sailing qualification I have never sailed abroad due to work constraints.

• Lieblingsbuch/-autor/-film

  Books, wow, so many to choose from:
  All of Discworld,
  The Odyssey by homer,
  any of the Rebus crime novels
  Just too may to name

  Authors:
  The Holy Spirit
  C.S. Lewis,
  G. K. Chesterton,
  JRR Tolkien,
  Agatha Christie,
  Alexandre Dumas,
  Andrzej Sapkowski,
  C. J. Sanson,
  Diana Gabaldon

  Films:
  Roman Holiday,
  The Third Man,
  The Ipcress File,
  The Good, The Bad & The Ugly,
  One flew over the Cuckoo's nest.
  The Shining,
  ...

• Eine persönliche Herausforderung

  I want to learn three languages so that I can get a better understanding of my world.
  Ancient Greek, Latin and Hebrew

• Persönliche Fähigkeiten

  I’m a certified Yachtmaster and therefore a very keen sailor,

  I brew some rather excellent all grain beers and porters

  I can pretty much make a computer do anything is ask of it.

  I recently bought my first sports car, no it’s not part of a mid-life crisis

• Freuden der Kindheit

  I’m old enough to be of a generation where we were allowed to play outdoors and that freedom was my greatest pleasure. Being able to explore the countryside with a gang of pals, build tree houses and rope swings. Those days were heavenly.

• Ein kleiner Rat

  Before calling IT support, check:

  Is it switched on?
  Is it really switched on, at the all too?
  Should it have paper in it?
  Has it got paper in it?
  Is the screen on (see above)

  Have you tried turning off, and back on again?

• Das Schulsystem verbessern

  Get better school governors and make sure the money raise is spent wisely

• Eine Karriere ohne Hindernisse

  Is one boring career