Hmmm, i have a pretty good job in higher education. I like to be around educators from all different subject areas from art to psychology. I'm a published author although i haven't written for a while. I've read far too many books and can bore people if i get on a roll having bottled it all up! I'm attracted to creative people and / or deep thinkers but i think i really just like people who are themselves and aren't judgemental. Most of the time I'm pretty chilled out as is my small circle of friends.

I like being Welsh too, i think it was Emerson who said we are naturally democratic people, we don't need all of the laws and institutions of our English neighbours.

I travelled quite a bit in my youth (so to speak). I went to college in the states and a busking tour of Europe, i also spent a lot of time in Holland finding myself :-) I'm genuinely fascinated by all cultures and nationalities and love history, the more ancient the better. I suppose I like to see the roots of things.

I want to do more travelling and i'm equally happy staying with friends, camping or in a 5 star hotel as long as i can see something interesting and relax in good company. I get pleasure in doing things that other people like just to see their reactions and i really love watching my nephews (and my cat) have new experiences.

Working, spending time with nephews, trying to learn new things and have new experiences. I think i would like to do more though!

Problem solving, making connections and seeing patterns, creative writing and storytelling, creating new recipies, being empathetic, considerate and nice to other people, dry humour...

I've also been told I'm a very good host. I like to suprise my very unadventurous friends with new tastes (I probably think about food and drink too much). Cocktails and sauces are my latest thing.

God i have no idea, probably my honesty, which is never mean and i can be diplomatic when i need to but i think being true to yourself is really important, i say what i mean and i mean what i say.

Music: Secondhand Serenade, Natasha Atlas,Rage Against the Machine, Portishead, Curtis Mayfield, Blue October, Blind Melon, Ashanti, Angi Stone, Paris, Al Green, 30 Seconds to Mars, 3 Doors Down, 2pac, Bob Dylan, Tea Leaf Green, Maria Mena, Morgan Heritage, Linkin Park, Dj Ozone, Jah Cure, Guru, Placebo, Chuck D, Stone Temple Pilots

Books: Phillip K. Dick, Dennis Wheatley, Jean Toomer, Aldous Huxley, Ryszard Kapuściński, Franz Kafka, Douglas Adams, Albert Camus, Richard Price, William S. Burroughs, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Miller, Dostoevsky, Jack Kerouac, Herman Hesse, Carl Gustav Jung Ro, Gurdjieff.

Movies: Dazed and Confused,Blade Runner, Brotherhood of the Wolf,Gobeklitepe: The World's First Temple, Quest For Fire,Harold & Kumar, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Television : Spartacus: Blood And Sand, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, V, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,Firefly, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead

Games: Deadly Premonition, Mass Effect, The Elder Scrolls IV, Catherine

I think the buddha said something about all that arises ceases but i'm pretty fond of:

My nephews, my kitten, my ipad, my garden, my book collection and my integrity

All sorts of things really, i think quite creatively and like to use my imagination to problem solve or just to contemplate. Sometimes i probably should concentrate on driving or something. My best thinking is done in the pool.

Chilling out with my cat / friends watching movies, listening to music, or playing video games. I like talking, especially with good red wine - it could be about anything from the completely mundane to the nature of the Universe, it's all the same to me.

It wouldn't be private then.

Only if we have a very high compatability match or you are my mortal enemy :-). If you want to say hi or want to recommend a book or offer some advice about raising a kitten.