30 year old English man, literate, fond of painting, writing, photography,​ anything outdoors. Very fond of sending & receiving snail and email messages around the world.
Emigrating to Canada (Montréal) ASAP, so any locals there welcome to msg me!
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Married and strongly devoted husband to a wonderful woman from Canada.  She knows who she is. We met on here!!

Would like email penpals to share experiences,​ pass the time of day, and generally learn a bit both ways.
I'm looking for FRIENDSHIP ONLY, and not here on any other basis; I'll enjoy discussing anything relevant with anyone within this remit. And​ to silence those who still haven't grasped it, I am married, and happily so too. If you want to know why I'm happy, take a look at my wife's profile (if you can work out who she is, LOL!)​
Please note: I'm sorry but I can't afford to feed all the starving in Africa, even less so to fund it through scams- if that's your game, please- don't bother. A NOTE FOR THOSE RUSSIAN SCAMMERS- JUST GIVE IT UP, THERE IS ONLY ONE WOMAN IN MY LIFE AND SHE IS REAL- SAVE YOUR TIME AND MINE, I'M NOT GETTING ANYONE INTO THE UK ON ANY PRETEXT!

also: I don't add people to my friends list or MSN contacts until I've talked to them awhile on this site. So forget it if your aim is just to get the biggest friends list!

And to all you genuine penpal enthusiasts,​ sorry for the above- I am just getting p155Ed off with losers who have one of those motives. I always try to respond to all genuinely interested and interesting requests, although I have a pretty full schedule!

High school French, Italian
I'm moving to Quebec, so need to learn to speak like a "native"​- and soon!

Painting, reading,  location photography,​ writing, ​travel​. Dwarf​ Hamsters.​​ People.
Cooking- increasingly​.

Anything before 1990(!) Anything with a real melody.
Kim Wilde, Blondie, OMD, Cyndi Lauper, Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Nat King Cole, many others, mood dependant!
Currently having a renaissance of enthusiasm for Roxette, Ace of Base, and Britpop. This could change in a week! That's just me.I love Colplay and Enya, in fact most of the European originated music.
​*** BREAKING NEWS: WAGNER IS BACK

AND ALIVE! WHOOMPH! *** ​

Leona Lewis is starting to make a dent in my prejudices..​. as are coldplay! I love the track "Homeless"​ by Lewis... although it tends to increase the tristesse of the present.
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Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down,
Shawshank redemption, American Beauty, Forrest Gump, Almost Famous, About a Boy, Definitely Maybe, Bridget Jones (1 & 2), Basic Instinct 2, Clockwork Orange, Straw Dogs, Gone in 60 seconds, The Italian Job
Donnie Darko, Out of Africa, Empire of the Sun, Prince Caspian, La Vie en Rose, A Very Long Engagement, The Green Mile


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PS I love you

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Little Miss Sunshine
Kingdom Of Heaven
Back to the Future
Children of a Lesser God
The Graduate
Walk the Line
Hannibal Rising
Premonition (hate Sandra Bullock, love the plot)
Equilibrium
The Notebook (yes, I'm  guy, and yes, I cried too)
..........an​ything with Drew Barrymore!

Schindler's List
The Pianist

forget TV. Life's too short.
TV's so last century.
National Geographic's​ watchable though!
And the Weakest Link is scary.
Oh,​ OKAY! I'm not too proud to change... having seen the first episodes, I like CSI Miami... thank you sweetheart!  Anyone out there fancy explaining what I've missed in the last 29 years of TV, and should be watching now? Imagine Back to The Future crossed with someone from The Village, and you have some idea of the position I'm in!
Panorama on BBC
Grays Anatomy
Animal rescue squad

Anything by Dickens, Dostoyevsky,​ and modern non- fiction. The Great Railway Bazaar (Paul Theroux) Kim (Rudyard Kipling), Diary of Anne Frank; books by Jack London; Moby Dick (Melville)
And how could I forget my favourite all time author- P.G.Wodehous​e!
Enjoying renewing my acquaintance​ with James Herriott.
Resurrecting​ D H Lawrence from my rebel teenage years...

Haven't mentioned this before but I love graphic novels like Persepolis, The Tale of One Bad Rat, V for Vendetta, When the Wind Blows, The League of Extraordinar​y Gentlemen.

I would rather be throught a silent fool than open my mouth and remove all doubt.
Man is judged not by how he acts, but how he reacts.
The two most important senses of the human body:
1) A sense of humour
2) Common sense.

Per ardua ad astra

Fillean meal ar an meallaire.

"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."​
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations​

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Ha-LOA! McFL-YY!

Keep​ the heart more than anything that is guarded, for out of it are the issues of life

Frankly,​ my dear, I don't give a damn!​