I was born 4th March 1956 and have been pretty busy ever since. Qualifications: science degree, majoring in pure maths (a long story); postgraduate diploma in education; maths and computing science degree majoring in theoretical physics and applied maths. Teaching experience: twenty years with a 0.5 part time load average, teaching secondary physics, maths and computer science; about four years part time running first year uni maths tutorials. Musical interest: studying music composition and playing the guitar since I was a teenager; mostly self taught but had some formal music education early on; once had a regular gig in a pub as a solo act singing and playing my own material; have occasionally created and recorded live music in garage bands; along the way also took up the piano; now have a home studio and use both cubase and logic pro to assist in producing my music. Since April 2018, I have been working at my music full time and am working towards live performances of my compositions. Science interest: writing a physics book for that transitional stage from late secondary to early tertiary; coauthoring a book on applications of relativity to aerospace engineering. Both books word processed using LaTeX. I`ve been studying and using LaTeX spasmodically for nearly ten years. French language interest: My father was English, my mother was French. We weren`t allowed to speak French growing up and by the time I was able to study it in high school, I quickly lost interest. As an adult I have had very little motivation to learn French. Starting in 2010 I`ve been able to visit my relatives in Normandy for about a week every two years or so and have become interested in travelling around France, so I have been trying to improve my French since then. Mostly, they`re not bothered learning English and I mean that in the nicest possible way so I make the effort to communicate in French. This means, that with my limited French, they try to keep their French simple so it`s probably not always typical every day French. So sometimes I have trouble getting the tone of what they`re saying.
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