I'm a 41-year-old bureaucrat with eclectic tastes ranging from the supremely interesting to the deeply profound to the globally important to the gloriously trite. I'm one of these, living here (previously here and there and everywhere), originating from far and wide, and interested in all sorts of things, including:

This user graduated from the University of Keele. User:Proto/ap infin¦ itive This user chooses never to split infinitives. ... in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put. This user likes cinnamon, who doesn't? likelily? This user knows that likely is an adjective, not an adverb. This user supports the reunification of Gondwanaland. This user laments the fact that nobody gets a Classical education any more.

This user is a member of WikiProject Social Work Good news, everyone! This user is a fan of Futurama! This user wishes they'd just get on with it. The angels have the phone box!. This user is grateful for all the instructions everywhere. This user agrees that we ought to strike down the prophets of false. This user accepts that Britain does not have interesting weather. bo sho kro mo ro blo! Justice is swift.

This user lives in the United Kingdom. en This user is a native speaker of the English language. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. gb-5 Dzh uuzzar speekz gbrsh attteh pprrrraaahhffaaasssshaanaaaall llvll. grc-2 Ὅδε ὁ χρήστης δύναται συμβάλλεσθαι μετρίᾳ γνώσει τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς. la-2 Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest. ... This user would like to know oodles more languages. This user was born somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean.

• Courage: Eight Portraits.
• Dick Marty. He wrote a report about euthanasia once, you know.
• Nichola McAuliffe - I know nothing about this woman, but created an article for her anyway.
• Margaret Beckett - pack it in! leave it alone!
• Thelma Barlow.
• Social Work - contributions on UK context; still plenty to do!
• Makarios III - rewrote the previous NPOV/copyvio article (fawn, fawn, fawn).

• Douglas Hurd - a friend of mine offered him chips once. I merely expanded his article.
• Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 1990, Margaret Thatcher (pictures), William Hague and Kenneth Clarke - what am I, some kind of Tory?
• Sharon Maughan - a good example of how Wikipedia can take you to some really, really quite strange but intriguing places.
• Hay's Galleria.
• Resignation speech.
• Hogwarts, Severus Snape, Horace Slughorn, Madam Rosmerta and Quirinus Quirrell.
• Jacques Chirac, who may not be as bad as he's painted.

Proud bearer of the Working Man's Barnstar for tireless work on improving grammar, wordings, and other small but vital elements of various Harry Potter articles.

• Do this, do that
• Tidy this place up!
• Ad astra per ardua
• Be a spoilsport
• Do you want to know more?