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Short version Ian Gosling was born in Buckinghamshire and brought up in Cambridgeshire. He moved to Rutland - England's smallest county - 23 years ago, with his wife Maggie and their three children.
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Long version 1953 was a very good year – the country had a new Queen, the world had new heroes in Hilary and Tenzing, and in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Mr and Mrs Gosling had a baby boy Nine years later – via Somerset and Kent – we moved to St Neots, a small market town in Huntingdonshire, and later for reasons that I have long forgotten, I became an accountant I married 1974 and spent the next twelve years moving my family around the country, always in search of a better job. In 1980 I returned to Buckinghamshire, where we lived for nearly seven years. Maggie and our children (Sarah, Nick & Claire) would have been happy to stay there. But the grass is always... and we moved to Rutland. Somewhere along the way I stopped being an accountant and become a contract project manager and I have worked in such diverse places as Edinburgh, London, Macclesfield and Kuwait – we still live in Rutland Things that I like Some of my favourite novels East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming, The Ipcress File by Len Deighton, The Book of Dave by Will Self, The Falls by Ian Rankin A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Dead of Jericho by Colin Dexter The Players by Jo Reynolds, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson Day of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Some of my favourite non-fiction Pictorial Guides to The Lakeland Fell by A Wainwright, Tony Benn's diaries The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, The Death Zone by Matt Dickinson World Cup 2003 The official account of England's World Cup triumph Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Some favourite movies & TV shows TV - Wire in The Blood, Rebus, Law & Order, CSI, Cracker, Prime Suspect Hill Street Blues, Columbo, Silent Witness, Waking The Dead, The Wire Movies - Goodfellas, Dirty Harry, LA Confidential, Get Carter, The Long Good Friday The Godfather, Sea of Love, The Wicker Man, The Blues Brothers, The Commitments
Musical heroes Van Morrison, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix Paul Weller, Ray Davies, John Lennon, Paul Simon
... and heroines Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox, Joan Baez, Aretha Franklin Janis Joplin, Etta James, Christine McVie
some great albums (by none of the above) Meddle : Pink Floyd ~ Inherit the Wind : Wilton Felder ~ Sleeps With Angels : Neil Young Beggars Banquet : The Rolling Stones ~ A Love Supreme ~ John Coltrane The Soft Bulletin : The Flaming Lips ~ Bongo Fury : Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart
some great songs (not included above) In the Midnight Hour : Wilson Pickett ~ Redemption Song : Bob Marley Rock the Casbah : The Clash ~ Tangled up in Blue : Bob Dylan Love Will Tear Us Apart : Joy Division ~ Crazy : Willie Nelson
some classical music Fauré Requiem ~ Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3 ~ Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Elgar Cello Concerto ~ Bernstein America Pachabel Canon ~ Albinoni Adagio ~ Stravinsky Petrushka
2 Great Teams LEEDS UNITED 1964/1974 LEICESTER TIGERS
Some favourite places the summit of Blencathra ~ the beach at Old Hunstanton ~ the harbour at Seahouses Langdale ~ Buttermere ~ Lathkill Dale Salisbury Crags ~ the Water of Leith ~ Crammond Cambridge ~ The City of London ~ Grasmere ~ Cromer ~ Buckden Tate Modern ~ St Pancras Station ~ Ely Cathedral ~ Welford Road |
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