Born on January 8th
1956, I like music, laughing, running and drinking good red wine and real
ale. On the occasions when I run with the Hash House Harriers, all of these can
be accomplished simultaneously! Thanks to the late Vax Headroom (Martin
Minow) for inculcating me in the mysteries of Hashing. I was always far
too fat to be a good runner, but I am very proud that Wendy is, having represented
Wendy remains a
member of Sandhurst Joggers
having stepped down from the Committee permanently on 26th March
2007. We have three kids,
Pippa, Simon and Dan, of whom more, later. We like music of
all kinds - R.E.M. and Peter Gabriel are favourites, as well as Fairport
Convention, Prokofiev and Philip Glass. I read a lot -
Science Fiction mostly - but also like thrillers and Penguin's '….For
Beginners' series. My favourite authors include Kinky Friedman, William
Gibson, Gregory MacDonald and Enid Blyton. I am an avid comic collector and
have many moons of Batman stashed away. The whole family is
into Star Trek in a big way - didn't like DS9 all that much though. The
X-Files was a family addiction too, but despite this we have yet to mutate or
be abducted by aliens. Which fits in
rather nicely with the fact that Quantum Physics is a fascination of mine and
I read up all that I can. I had a vasectomy
in 1988 and felt the need to write about the experience. Should you want to
take a look, the write-up is here (no piccies!). We vacation in
interesting places - From 1983 I worked
at DEC's UK Support Centre in After 3 months
having a good time with the redundancy money, I started contracting at BZW
thence working at British Gas, DEC (again), Channel 4 Television, Reuters and
doing Y2K at Credit Suisse from May 1998 until Jan 2000 I
joined NTL in March 2000 and eventually became a permie
there in August 2000. They then outsourced me to IBM on 24 May 2001, where I
remained until 5 July 2002 when I returned to NTL, sticking around until June
2004 when I took redundancy rather than be killed off by a thousand cuts. Pictures
of the family from April 2003 can be found here.
Lots of other pictures can be found here Wendy returned to
full-time education and graduated in 2001 from Pippa graduated in 2003
with a degree in Medical Physics at Simon graduated in
July 2007 and we all had a great time – see these
pictures. He has yet to decide what he wants to do with the rest of his
life – a problem I share. Daniel has quit
college, gotten a job and seems much happier for it In April 2004 my
Dad (Keith Leslie) died, which had a profound impact upon me, as I was there
with him from initial diagnosis to his death – every appointment, every
Doctor, right up to the end. For more about my Dad and my Mum (Alice), who
died Easter Sunday, 2007, see here and my blog. At the end of July
2004 I left ntl. Wendy is working at the Finchampstead Surgery. I participate in
several forums, notably the TalkAWhile forum,
centred around folk music and in particular that of Fairport Convention. As I write this I’m
51 years old, a mark I never thought I’d reach. Ho hum. “Consider the
alternative”, as my Dad used to say… Last
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