Journal created:
on 29 July 2001 (#278177)
Updated:
on 16 September 2025
Name:
Daniel A
Birthdate:
7 February 1969
Location:
Chester, United Kingdom
Website:
External Services:
I'm Daniel and live in Chester, England.
Leisure is mainly gardening, walking and horse-riding, amateur arboriculture, messing around with odd and old engineering artefacts and attending various Goth nights in Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leeds or even Slimelight down in London.
I've also have a small traditional orchard and meadow to manage in an environmentally aware manner.
I relax by reading about weird things, occasionally having a mammoth binge on Amazon:
Although independent and second hand book sellers are important too.
general reading list...
I sometimes turn wooden bowls & chalices etc. on my lathe in an artisan sort of way. Other interests and hobbies include electronics and computing history - I'm an Instrument Mechanic by trade...
For going out locally I'm sometimes in Telford's Warehouse, Watergates or Revolution Bar, usually on a day off now and then too for a long lunchtime snack.
Further a'field I get out and about walking - particularly around Salisbury, Wiltshire, The Ridgeway, Welsh / Shropshire Borders, Yorkshire Moors or North Staffordshire and general wild and enchanting places. More recently this has included Iceland, outwards from Reykjavik.
I am particularly interested in landscape, megalithic, topological or arboricultural history and mythology.
Longer periods of leisure used to take in spells touring in the namesake Strangerover - ex army battlefield ambulance, or similar 'cabriolet' - both V8 Landrover 101 ex-general service army trucks. Recently I've switched to a modern Landrover double-cab pick-up.
The writings under my 'Strangerover' username journal are generally in a non-attributable style and are the copyright of myself, reasonable quotations within context may be made elsewhere with reference. Further information if necessary via my contact details above.
Leisure is mainly gardening, walking and horse-riding, amateur arboriculture, messing around with odd and old engineering artefacts and attending various Goth nights in Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leeds or even Slimelight down in London.
I've also have a small traditional orchard and meadow to manage in an environmentally aware manner.
I relax by reading about weird things, occasionally having a mammoth binge on Amazon:
Although independent and second hand book sellers are important too.
general reading list...
I sometimes turn wooden bowls & chalices etc. on my lathe in an artisan sort of way. Other interests and hobbies include electronics and computing history - I'm an Instrument Mechanic by trade...
For going out locally I'm sometimes in Telford's Warehouse, Watergates or Revolution Bar, usually on a day off now and then too for a long lunchtime snack.
Further a'field I get out and about walking - particularly around Salisbury, Wiltshire, The Ridgeway, Welsh / Shropshire Borders, Yorkshire Moors or North Staffordshire and general wild and enchanting places. More recently this has included Iceland, outwards from Reykjavik.
I am particularly interested in landscape, megalithic, topological or arboricultural history and mythology.
Longer periods of leisure used to take in spells touring in the namesake Strangerover - ex army battlefield ambulance, or similar 'cabriolet' - both V8 Landrover 101 ex-general service army trucks. Recently I've switched to a modern Landrover double-cab pick-up.
The writings under my 'Strangerover' username journal are generally in a non-attributable style and are the copyright of myself, reasonable quotations within context may be made elsewhere with reference. Further information if necessary via my contact details above.
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