Hello to all you curious ones out there. Thanks for checking my profile. It's been four years since I was last a paid up member of NF and I finally couldn't resist the temptation of reading in full messages that had been left any longer. I am glad I did.
This is a complete re-write of my previous profile. Things move on and people change and well, it was time for a new profile.
Please, if you will, think of me as a 'Happy Hobbit'; content to go about my doings amongst the small hills and rivers of 'The Shire'. I am happy in rolling, open lowlands, happier in what remains of the ancient greenwood and happiest of all in the high country with its views that go on forever. The sounds of running water and crashing waves draw me involuntarily to them to drink of their energy.
I am a country boy. No town or city lover I. Maybe born on a dank, cold late November day in a still industrialised Manchester clothed, as it usually was in those far off days, in stinking yellow fog, but lucky enough to be raised in the bracken clad downlands of Hampshire and currently enjoying an enduring love affair with the big skies and sheep-nibbled rolling countryside of Wiltshire.
Give me a stout staff and a knapsack packed with wholesome eatables and fresh water and I will walk, most enjoyably in good company, many a long mile in all weathers, until perhaps in the chilly depths of a grey winter, we come across the welcoming warm lights of a countryside inn and within a roaring fire, good ale and hot food or, on a scorching day one endless summer, spy the patchwork quilt of parasolled bench tables in the garden of a remote tavern and make a happy bee line there to quench our thirst and rest our hobbity feet.
Moderation and consideration for others constitute my ballast in life and functional thinking (to continue the maritime theme) is my compass. I am sometimes inclined to despair at the dire state of affairs the extremes of mystical and mechanistic thinking have brought the human race to, but a bigger picture more often holds my attention and puts all the terrors and horrors that we perpetrate on each other into a true perspective. Above all, the connecting together of people of goodwill animates me; a transformative evolution rather than a self defeating revolution to grow the world out of it's wild adolescence. I am not an activist.
When my big hobbits feet are not padding down some leaf carpeted track in a bird song buzzing wood, I relax by watching movies, old and new on DVD. From art house (Duke of Burgundy) to the frankly rather trashy, gross out (Ted) and sentimental (Angela), I do love them all. No finer pleasure exists than to curl on on a comfy chair and appreciate somebody elses cinematic labour of love. Needless to say I fully appreciated 'The Hobbit' trilogy.
Following a course of healing, I bio-emotionally found I could no longer physically tolerate some back beat driven blues, rock and 'pop', especially at volume'. Most strange. It feels to me now almost like being assaulted, not to mention being tediously boring, and I have had to walk out of gigs. I drift away to folk, cool jazz and classic era swing and I am a truly happy bunny indeed with my new sounds, feet still a-tapping, hairy hobbit feet spinning and hopping on the dance floor! I have an old drum set and pretend to be Gene Krupa (see YouTube for some Gene vids). Drumming is soooo therapeutic.
What kind of person am I looking to share life with? I'll tell you when I meet her.
Below are a few commonly asked questions:
Q: Are you hobbit sized, because I like my men large?
A: I am the size of a large hobbit - will that do?
Q: Are your feet huge and hairy like those of other hobbits?
A: I keep my feet shaved and smooth and they are of normal dimensions thank you.
Q: I hear that hobbits like to smoke. Do you like to smoke?
A: I once tried a pipe but I couldn't keep it alight long enough to find out.
Q: Are you a real hobbit, because I have my doubts?
A: I am as real as you want me to be. Make your mind up if we get to meet each other.
If any of the above has intrigued or fired your imagination, you can be assured of a friendly response if you decide to get in touch.
The Happy Hobbit
PS I do apologise for the photo; I can't get it cropped correctly. Advice happily accepted.
