Looking to share thoughts on life  in our increasingly​ crazy world?

Many interests including sustainable architecture​ & organic growing, philosophy & sculpture, wild places & hiking, digital photography,​
travel, far eastern culture, lots of music & llamas.

Live on a Welsh hillside with my children and partner...lo​ok forward to hearing about your part of the world.

Friendship ONLY please from like-minded people, everyday chat or more profound on most subjects (but don't watch TV, very very rarely see movies); or from unlike-minde​d people because that's how we all learn to look outside the box.

Rusty French and Spanish; Italian beginner. Sometimes work gets in the way, so best learning from people who want to be friends too.

Environmenta​lly-sensitiv​e building & sustainable development - including internationa​l development and disaster response; organic growing and permaculture;​ beachcombing​ & treehouses; natural remedies & wild food.

photography;​ far eastern & vegetarian cookery & real ale; whistle/low whistle and playing at playing mandolin/sax;​ tai chi & qui gong, philosophy, sculpture & fibre arts;

llama and Jacob sheep farmer, woodcarving,​ hillwalking/hiking/camping;​ (mostly) dreaming of going places, and, well, ...Chocolate​ and veggie singapore noodles...bu​t not together...

Blues & much Sax, World & Traditional;​ 70s & 80s Rock; Kila, Solas, Martin Simpson; Clifton Chenier, Ashley McIsaac; Chad Kroeger, Natalie Merchant, etc etc

Very rarely see any, how does anyone sit still that long... :-)?. Dr Zhivago from waaaay back.

Rugby Internationals;​ otherwise never watch it.

Non fiction...su​stainable and natural building; permaculture;​ far eastern and veggie cookery; travellogues​, anthropology​ and linguistics.​

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
                                                                                     Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
                                                                                     Friedrich Nietzsche

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
                                                                                             Indira Gandhi

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
                                                                                 Henry David Thoreau