Mostly, I play music, and I think about things.

I sing and I play traditional violin from different countries - Britain, America, Klezmer, Sweden, or France... but the thing I like best is improvising with people. I'm basically a jazz musician who doesn't play jazz.

For the past few years I've also been spending a lot of my time attempting to write a book. It was supposed to be an entertaining book about the philosophy of economics, partly told through stories about elephants. If that sounds like a hard thing to write, it was. I'm still working on it.

As well as that, I write and research part time as a journalist for a magazine on social and environmental issues.

I really like talking to lots of different people, particularly ones who have interesting ideas, or are slightly crazy.

I now live with Dylan-and-Ruth who are on here sperately, their mega-cute baby Aidan, and Ruth's brother Neil.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to meet interesting people, in interesting places.

Interests

I like finding out about the world, people, and ideas, having adventures, discussing philosophical and political issues, and being silly.

• books
• singing
• cooking
• music
• jazz
• violin
• economics
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Here are some books I like: Catch 22, The Kite Runner, Riddley Walker, The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, plays by Brecht, Lord of the Rings, novels by Kurt Vonnegut, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Name of the Rose, The God of Small Things

Music I like: traditional music from round much of Eastern and Western Europe, and the USA, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Martin Carthy, Goran Bregovic, Leonard Cohen, the Klezmatics, Blowzabella...mmm, that gives a flavour.

Movies: The English Patient, Casablanca, Labyrinth (especially Ludo the big floppy monster)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Researching agricultural development in Zambia. I can tell you all about the nitrogen requirements of maize.

Teach, Learn, Share

Music, philosophy, English, cooking

What I Can Share with Hosts

Talking to you. Helping out with things. Playing music with you.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Denmark, France, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

England