Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of Me !

 

Yes, folks. Malcolm Jeffrey. 45 years and counting. proud Husband of Katie, and proud Father of Joe and Tom, hailing from Stourbridge, the sun-soaked sin centre of the West Midlands in England. Jasper the cat, Oscar and Waldo the goldfish, a collection of teddybears and a mortgage to support. And, all told, a pretty contented geezer, really. I've always been lucky enough to be able to find the things I like doing, stick with them, and even earn money doing them.

so :

I discovered Programming while doing my degree course at Leicester Poly in 1980 and, travelling via PETs, a VIC=20, several Commodore 64s, a laptop and finally a dreaded XP pc, here I am, a Programmer by trade, working for npower in Kingswinford.

I took the bass guitar up in 1977 (now that IS a long time ago !) and still play the same Aria Pro II bass live every week at “Katie Fitzgerald's” in Stourbridge. Come along and listen - only YOU can decide if I’m any good after all that time (and all that beer) !

Mostly as a response to my family saying “oh yes ? pull the other one !” after I watched the first London Marathon and said I’d quite fancy a go, I ran my first Marathon in 1981 in Birmingham in 3:47:15, have a pb of 2:47.40 and have currently run 70 full Marathons in a wide variety of times (laziness).

Anything else ? Well, I’m a sort of classical guitarist, mostly specialising in humorous songs, especially Jake Thackray’s and Tom Lehrer's stuff ; a frequenter of live music of vastly differing styles ; an OK 3-ball juggler but pants with 4 ; a slow but accurate pencil sketcher ; a collector of original Goon Show recordings ; an occasional marquetry whittler ; a bit of a draught beer quaffer ; the owner of a surprising number of Elvis Costello and Yes albums ; a snooker player when I can manage ; a photographer ; a Sci-Fi and Pratchett reader mostly ; and solver of Rubik’s Revenge and the original Rubik’s Cube.

There really isn’t enough time in the day...

And there you have it. I love my wife and my little boys, do my own ironing, don’t play enough bass, sing a bit, am lucky enough to earn money doing a job I both enjoy and am good at, sink the odd pint, and, now I have retired my C=64, I have a nice pc, modem and Web Site of my very own. presented with the infinite power and diversity of the World Wide Web, I have mostly trawled the Net for sound files of the Simpsons, South Park, Wallace & Gromit, Pinky and the Brain and Monty Python to enable my pc to make silly noises. Hurray !

Mail me... ...bye !!