About
About the Englishman
Where to start?
Well, I’m an Essex boy born and bred (not that you can necessarily tell that) now living in East London, having got here via Cambridge.
After school I went to study English Literature at Jesus College, Cambridge. So that probably means that you can expect to read a bit about books from time to time. And you’ll certainly spot the odd literary reference dotted throughout my blog.
Nowadays I work for YouthNet, an online charity that provides non-judgemental independent, advice and guidance for young people through TheSite.org and also an easy way for them to give something back through Do-it.org.uk: a national volunteering website which is where I fit in as part of the team managing our relationships with around 650 partners who post opportunities onto Do-it.
To finish fleshing out the picture, I’m also very much into film, TV and cooking in all its forms (but especially baking). I’m a community governor at a local primary school and have over the past year become a bit of a running obsessive. Oh, and socks are my favourite item of clothing (a point I somehow felt it was important to include!).
That’s enough about me. A mini-bio that more than anything else will, I hope, help make some what I expect will be an eclectic range of blog topics make just a bit more sense!
About Ruminating
To ruminate:
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) (of ruminants) to chew (the cud)
2. (when intr, often foll by upon, on, etc.) to meditate or ponder (upon)
My blog is the space where I hope to achieve just this. To take things that I’ve come across that I found interesting, digest them and share them with the world, in the hope that someone out there will find them interesting too.
I always try to be mindful of both the power of language and its shortcomings. In particular I try to remember the following from Tennyson’s In Memoriam A.H.H.:
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
Most importantly, this blog since I first tried it, has always and will always be a form of experimentation. I hope that by now I’ve started to find my feet as a blogger, but I would also like to think that I’ll continue to develop and evolve.
