: About Me

I am a qualified Spanish and Portuguese to English translator. I manage a translations agency based in West London called TranslateMedia and I do translation work on a freelance basis.

I am a generalist, working in a great variety of fields. My clients include Palgrave Macmillan, The Champions League, various translation agencies and some private clients. I have excellent research skills which are invaluable to me when translating, and I am continuously building resources.

I write short stories and essays in my spare time, as I find it's a good way to offload some information from my mind, which my girlfriend tells me is often a little too active! From a personal point of view I'm keen to keep up with contemporary ideas and developments in all fields, from ethnobotany to astronomy, from bio-science to high-technologies, and I even maintain an interest in football.

My passion is ...

my girlfriend, music and writing.

I know too much about ...

Spanish Medieval Literature

My parents always told me ...

that one hour before midnight is worth two afterwards....what?!

My childhood ambition ...

to be Columbo

My favorite memory ...

Going to see Aerosmith at Wembley and drinking with Rock heroes Noel Gallagher and Brian May.

Why I write ...

To empty my head and focus my mind. I am Zen.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

www.ted.com - watching one a day helps keep you fresh and real!

My first job ...

painter and decorator

My best moment ...

my conception. I beat lots of others to get here...

My inspiration ...

William Tyndale. If you don't know, read up. This guy was a religious rebel in the UK in the 1500s. He laid the seeds for a cultural movement that freed people from worshipping in Church by printing and distributing his English translation of the Bible covertly, at a time when the only way you or I would have had access to the good book would have been listening to a Priest read it out in Latin. His translation was very good. He was killed for it. In the same year, Henry VIII split from Rome....

Creative Writing > Songs Songs: Childhood memories

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Too Many Matthews Me and Paul were into the wrestling We used to watch it upstairs Borrow videos off whoever had them We didn't seem to care. Poor old Matthew Svenson We never gave Wrestlemania Seven back The Ultimate Warrior versus Hulk Hogan That was a classic match. Svenson was revolting so we didn't care. He looked like an undertaker and had short ginger hair. Then there was dodgy Matt Fisher The kid looked out the corner of his eye Had to stand at 45 degrees to see you How could you trust the guy? Fell off his bike on the way to school and didn't turn up for hours, The police got call...

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