ABOUT ME--HEY, IT IS MY   PAGE, AFTER ALL!

If you're somebody who knows me you can just check out the stuff to the left, and a few of the links I add from time to time.
If you're somebody who thinks you might know me, but aren't sure if I'm the right Peter Bradford, the following paragraphs will give you all the clues you need, together with an update on what I've been doing for the past several years.
If you neither know me nor think I'm that long-lost somebody you're looking for, just feel free to surf, learn a thing or two, send me a message and move on.

I am seventy and have been very happily married to Pat, the woman of my dreams, for twenty-six years.

We have five children between us; Chris, Justin(Jay), Kathi, Brett and Mark. Kathi and Chris live in the UK; Kathi in the Oxford area with her wonderful husband, Jon; and Chris lives in Southampton, not far from the New Forest, with his delightful girlfriend, Kirsten.
Jay, Brett and Mark all live in the USA; Jay and his terrific girlfriend, Peper, near us in Maryland; Brett with his wife, Lori, his son Jack and his daughter, Olivia, in Northern Virginia; and Mark with his wife, Annie, and their two sons, Dylan and Daniel, in Brooklyn, New York.
Jay and Mark each have daughters that live elsewhere; Haley, who lives with her mom, Amy, in Park Ridge, Illinois, and Kayleigh, who lives in Lisbon, Maryland.
My only other close family members, my sister, Pauline, and my brother-in-law, John, live near Salisbury, in England.

Pat was born in Texas and, like every Texan I've ever met, she's "Damn proud of it!" She's with the world-famous Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. The Johns Hopkins Hospital has recently been named #1 Hospital in the USA for the 18th consecutive year by US News & World Report.

I was born in the UK, part English part Welsh--the Welsh part is my heart. I was educated at Days Lane Primary School, Dartford Grammar School, The University of Nottingham and later at the University of London, where I received a Masters Degree in Solid State Physics. I moved to the United States nearly thirty years ago. We live in Ellicott City, Maryland.

I am a triple cancer survivor, having had a tumour on my right kidney removed almost 30 years ago, prostate cancer about ten years ago, and a brush with skin cancer more recently. Thank you everybody for all your prayers. And thank you God and St. Jude for hearing them.
It's strange; I'm not a Catholic, nor even a regular churchgoer, come to that, but I have come to believe in the powers of St. Jude. If you click on the link below, it will take you to the St. Jude Shrine, which is right here in Maryland.

St. Jude Shrine

I'm a Mensan, and my interests range from Jazz to Motor Sport, from Cricket to Crossword Puzzles (cryptic only), and from Rugby to Crib--Cribbage here in the States. Don't know what that is? Check it out. By the way, there's a link at the bottom of this page to the Welsh Rugby Union web page.

I am on ICQ -- ICQ#25036924, nickname "hartley". I'm also on Yahoo Messenger, User name peterjb1.

Check out the book I have written, called BritSpeak--. This attempts to explain to Americans some of the words and terms we Britons use.

Among my 'heroes' are Norman Anderson, Phil Bennett, Graham Hill, Lt Col 'H' Jones (I had the privilege to work with 'H' at Warminster when he was a Major), Gary Sobers, Harry Beck, 'Professor' Stanley Unwin, Arthur C Clarke, Tenzing Norgay, and Sacha Baron Cohen. If you haven't heard of some or any of these, check them out, too.

Oh yes, and I enjoy a good pint of ale like you get at the Silver Plough in Pitton, Wiltshire.

WHAT I LOOK FOR IN OTHER PEOPLE I like people who are honest, mature and sincere, but not if they're dull. I especially like meeting people from other cultures, too. I love to vacation with friends or family in coastal Maine or in a cabin in the mountains--but only if I get to take some creature comforts like my Jazz CDs with me. I get back to the UK as often as I can, especially North Wales. Check out Snowdonia if you don't know it already.
THINGS I LIKE Favourite Movies: Saving Private Ryan (Yes - it should have won!); Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Lady and the Tramp; Local Hero; Fandango. Favourite Authors: Dylan Thomas; Bill Bryson; Arthur C Clarke; P D James; Douglas Adams; Ken Follett; Isaac Asimov; Edward Rutherfurd and Leslie Thomas. Favourite Time of Year: Fall--by a long chalk! Favourite place to "Hang Out": My family room, or any "Pub" that serves a decent, fresh cask-conditioned brew in a 20oz glass at around 40-50 degrees! My Favourite Music: I like "everything" from Mozart to Male Voice Choirs--Welsh, of course, like the ones you can hear at this website. Try "Myfanwy" (muh-van'-oo-ee). Ah, those top-tenors! But although my heart lies in Wales, my soul lies in Jazz. My true favourites are The Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ); Dave Brubeck; Gerry Mulligan; Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster. THINGS I DON'T LIKE Officious Twits. Tomato juice. Any member of a group who across the board dislikes all members of another. Bagels. The modern trait of labelling or categorizing everybody: I feel people shouldn't be judged on whether they are male/female, black/white, young/old, Jew/Christian/Moslem etc. They are all just people. Most I like, some I don't, but it's the person I dislike, not the group.
Here are links to my favourite websites. Click on the titles to visit any of them.
CricInfo My only way to keep up with cricket scores. The game might as well not exist here in Maryland. I even get to listen real-time to ball-by-ball commentaries on-line through this site. The Electronic Telegraph Once again, my only way of keeping up with what's going on "back home". Plus I get to do the Telegraph Crossword every day! Cribbage I don't have any crib-playing friends or immediately available family members, so playing on-line is my only way of getting a game. Snowdonia This is where my heart lies. Wales at her most rugged and awesomely beautiful. I've hiked around the Snowdon Horseshoe a few times, often with pretty cruel weather. International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) The IMF is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for multiple myeloma patients while working towards prevention and a cure. The staff and doctors associated with the IMF are super, dedicated people. And the fellow patients and caregivers that Pat and I have met through our association with the organization are wonderful, too. Shop For The IMF As I mentioned above, if you do any on-line purchasing consider removing the individual bookmarks you've set for those merchants and bookmark this URL instead. Up to ten percent of every purchase you make will go to the IMF, but ONLY if you use this link to the merchants. The merchants include Amazon, Buy.com, Delta Airlines, Hotels.com, Drugstore.com, Macy*s, 1-800 Flowers, Lands End, Orbitz, Travelocity and Walmart. Where's George? Do you ever wonder where that paper money in your pocket has been, or where it will go next? This is the place to find out! ICQ (I Seek You) This site gives you a way to subscribe to a free, very rapid, "real time" e-mail service to keep in touch with fellow subscribers world-wide.

Click on the postbox to send me "Royal" e-mail.

Cymru Am Byth!

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