Nigel's Home Page

What does Nigel do for fun?

I'm a pretty easy going sort of person.  I enjoy most things in life especially travel, good food, good friends, and above all, having a good time.

As mentioned earlier, I share much of my life with my partner Mark.  We're fortunate in that we both enjoy many of the same things (especially eating and travelling!).  Over the past few years we've been fortunate to have travelled on several great round-the-world trips that took us to the Far East and Australia returning home through the USA and South America.  I'm sure that these trips were so special for me because Mark was there to share all the wonderful sights, sounds (and tastes!) with me.

The photos below were taken in Sydney and San Francisco - two of our favourite cities.

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and here's a photo of us at my works 'Summer Ball'

Follow the link to Travel for some photos of recent rips and some other useful (and money saving!) links.

I'm quite sporty: I play field hockey (I'm a goalkeeper) most Saturdays during the winter for a team in the Manchester league - although as age increases as do injuries I tend to do more umpiring than playing .  I also play tennis - formerly for my local club here in Cleckheaton, nowadays just for pleasure..

I enjoy skiing (downhill - cross country is too much like hard work!), though I'm somewhat of an advertisement as to why we Brits have never won any medals at the Olympics!  The photo below was taken just before I fell over - ouch!

Continuing on a sporting theme, I support my home town football (soccer) club Darlington "COME ON DARLO" - they have given me much grief along with the occasional joyous moment over the years.  If you fancy a trip to their new stadium, then do please e-mail me.  The club has a web site - just click below.

Although languishing towards the bottom of the Football League, Darlington have had their moments!  One of their most famous victories was against Chelsea in 1958 in the 4th round of the FA Cup.  Having drawn 3-3 down in London, Darlington proceeded to beat Chelsea 4-1 after extra time in the replay at Feethams.  Thanks to those nice people at British Pathé click on the link below to see highlights of the match.  Both my Dad and Grandad were at the match.

Click on the play button above to see highlights of the match.  (You'll need Windows Media Player installed to view this).

I recently sold my BMW K75RT motorbike.  I very much enjoyed travelling bike both here in the UK and in Europe.  I used to travel overseas at least a couple of times each year to France, Belgium, Holland or Germany, or, when possible, further a field.  In the recent past I've been to Italy, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and to Spain and Portugal.

Here's a photo of me on my bike:

The reason for selling my motorbike is that I now have a new love and needed the space for storage in the garage.  I'm now the owner of a 1961 Isetta 298cc bubble car "Issy" - click on the photos below:

As you can tell I'm quite an active person who like to get out and about.  However, I do enjoy nights at home in front of the TV with a gin and tonic or a beer - cheers!

The link below is to the BBC - one of the UK's most famous organisations.  Check it out:  there's information on TV and radio programmes, the latest news and sport plus lots of other interesting stories.

So, that's a brief overview of me.  I'm not exactly a whiz with the computer so any suggestions for improvements to my home page will be gratefully received.

I very much enjoy making new friends, so please get in touch by clicking on the button below to send me an e-mail.

Thank you for taking the time to look up my home page.  I'll look forward to hearing from you.

Nigel