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Despite my politically incorrect profile I am currently writing a history of Westbourne in Bournemouth, restoring a large Victorian house and garden, reading for an MA in Christian Spirituality, and researching more esoteric subjects.

Westbourne and Bournemouth local history, antique furniture and curios, antiquarian and esoteric books

My large library focusses on theology, spirituality, mythology, liturgy and ritual, Freemasonry and esoteric matters, local history, historic buildings, botany and horticulture, music, poetry and fiction with a magical undercurrent. Being traditional in outlook I live in an old house and (as my profile may hint) it also contains references that some may consider politically incorrect.

English

My interests are wide ranging (antiquarian, botanical, ecclesiastical, esoteric, to name but a few). # Being outdoors and keeping the countryside tidy (NFH, BASC, CA, SCI, B&CC, etc.). # Heritage [Life Member of English Heritage, the National Trust, and the Victorian Society] and Local History [Life Member of Bournemouth & District Civic Society]. # Growing unusual vegetables and herbaceous borders [RHS Life Member and member of the Bournemouth & District Horticultural Society]. # Camping with my godson's family. # I was churchwarden of my parish church for twelve years [Life Friend of Tewkesbury Abbey, Winchester Cathedral, and Brixworth Church]. # supporting Hampshire CCC and Dorset (Minor Counties) CCC [Life Member] # Various esoteric subjects.

The highlights are probably the works of C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien (who lived half a mile away), Charles Williams, Alan Garner, Ursula Le Guin, Lucy M.Boston, Algernon Blackwood, J.B.Priestley, G.K.Chesterton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Mervyn Peake, Fiona McLeod [William Sharp], Guy de Maupassant, Dennis Wheatley (who lived eight miles along the coast), Charles Dickens, R.L.Stevenson (whose house stood in my road), Mary Shelley (who lived on the other side of this town), William Blake, Anthony Trollope, Dorothy L.Sayers, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc, and P.G.Wodehouse. I've always loved hunting adventures and was brought up on the 'Jorrocks' foxhunting books of R.S.Surtees; the boys' hunting adventures of R.M.Ballantyne, Mayne Reid, Zane Grey, and my favourite, 'Tiger In Sight' by Astrid Bergman Sucksdorff; books by and about Osa Johnson, Jim Corbett, J.A.Hunter, Patrick Hanley, Jim Bond, Monica Campbell-Martin, Daniel Streeter (Denatured Africa), Maximillian von Rogister (Momella), Ernes

Powell-Pressburger films (especially 'A Matter of Life & Death'). Ealing Comedies. Good ghost stories and intelligent occult and paranormal films. The Amazing Mr Blunden, Amelie, An American Werewolf in London, An Inspector Calls, The Battle of Britain, The Belstone Fox, Black Narcissus, Blythe Spirit, A Canterbury Tale, Carlton-Browne of the F.O., Charade, Count Dracula (Louis Jourdan, 1977), Cruel Intentions. Damage, Dead of Night, Defence of the Realm, The Devil Rides Out, Dominique, Doomwatch, The Day of the Jackal, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Futtock's End, Gawain and the Green Knight, Gone to Earth, Green for Danger, The Green Man, The Halfway House, Harnessing Peacocks, Hue and Cry, I Know Where I'm Going, The Ipcress File, The Italian Job (original version), Kind Hearts & Coronets, The Ladykillers, The La

Mostly classical, mostly British, but also a wider selection of the choral repertoire and French organ music of the late nineteenth / early twentieth century. For orchestral music my tastes are mostly the English pastoral composers such as Elgar, Vaughan-Williams, Bax, Walton, Arnold, etc. But, like most people, I have startling exceptions that are usually due to connections or other influences in my life.

I don't have much time for that and I only have the four terrestrial channels at home (BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, and Channel 4)

'Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.' [from Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853), ch.17, by Robert Smith Surtees (1803-1864)]

I prefer to pay by PayPal as it provides buyer protection.

On the whole I am happier if you do not send me goods that require the postman to obtain a signature as I cannot guarantee to be in when he arrives!