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I'm keen on languages - being mainly Danish with some bits and pieces of others, I make a fair fist of German and Russian and can manage Danish as well. I'm 42 and have ridden motorbikes since 1972. A full list is available;.
I can be found lurking on Cix - the Compulink Information Exchange.
I enjoy strategy games, computer and board and was one of the original wargamers in the late Sixties and early Seventies, before working for Graeme Levin at the Games Centre in the late Seventies and being a member of Wargames Developments. Freely confess to a weakness for Sid Meier games, Harpoon and all that kind of thing.
The bike was a 1993 Suzuki GSXR-1100WP, fitted with K&N filter, Dynojet kit and a more-or-less legal Micron race exhaust system. It was set up and tuned by that excellent man, Sam Graham of Ballymoney, Co Antrim - the same guy who's done some work for Yer Man Joey just down the road - and it did its 135 bhp at the back wheel. Just a small indulgence (and for the benefit of any Constabulary reading this page, it does "70 on motorways and dual carriageways, officer".
The bike is now a 1996 Fireblade, which Valerie bullied me into buying. I had the thought of chopping in the Suzy for something else (after a particularly unfortunate broken-chain-at-90-mph-incident) and looked at a Yamaha Thunderace. Was quite impressed, really, took Herself down to have a look at it and she seemed keen; she then spent the whole evening convincing me that I really wanted a Blade. Ah well. It's got 20,000 miles on it now, has been dressed up with a couple of carbon-fibre bits and pieces, courtesy of the ever-efficient Bladerunners of Chesham and, as of 2 September 1996 was set up with a race can, K&N filter and Dynojet by PDQ of Slough. 128 bhp at the back wheel and over 100 bhp all the way from 6000 rpm.....
I've lived all over and been lucky enough to have done a fair bit of travelling; now, however, settled in Gloucestershire and loving it there. The South Cotswolds truly are the area with everything - stunning scenery, terrific roads...
VALERIE
Henrik’s other half and mother of the house twelve year old. Oliver is at that age where really vicious computer games are an essential part of his working day, along with reading horror books and ducking out of as much homework as possible. He is very talented artistically and was responsible for our 1997 online Christmas card :
Henrik and I are only partly in control of Beamish, the domestic shorthair - this mostly involves getting out of bed to feed him in the morning, disturbing ourselves to let him out, disturbing ourselves to let him back in again…one word from us and he does as he likes. Henrik has recently taken to making sure Beamish leaves the house first thing in the morning. This is not only so that he gets some exercise, but also so that Henrik can do a quick 'Fur Check' - if the cat comes in dry, Henrik bikes to work.
I'm interested in all the things that Henrik likes - bikes and computery, obviously, along with reading, music, trying desperately to find time to finish playing Discworld II and - due to a Kindly Act on the part of 'a friend' - becoming a helpless Babylon 5 and Xena Warrior Princess fanatic. (Honestly: you go into hospital for a perfectly innocent hip replacement and 'friends' send you video tapes to watch while you convalesce. Two episodes later you're hooked. Be warned.)
We both thoroughly enjoy entertaining and cooking what little the Government allows us still to eat, although Brussels sprouts play no part in the Kiertzner House Cuisine and personally I won't be in the same street as tripe. Very keen on trying new things and finding interesting ingredients to play with, so if anyone comes across something unusual (legally) for sale in a food shop, do let me know.
In order to support quite a heavy blinking habit, I work as PA to the Chief Executive for a firm of financial advisers in Cirencester. If you haven't visited this part of Gloucestershire before you really should; a delightful Cotswold market town that dates back to Roman times (when it was known as Corinium), containing something for everyone from a small but interesting museum to an architectural gem of a church, with plenty of shops and cafés, an arts centre, weekly markets and much more besides.
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