Profile for Brian Selwood

I am 82, only the brain works properly. My main interest is art (painting and oils).

After courting for three years, I have been married for 63years.

I passed for a high standard grammar school in Sheffield, called "Nether Edge" grammar with two serious disadvantages. Firstly, I was a year younger than the other entrants, and also I had not recovered from a serious illness, and fell behind academically.
I was impressed by the utter dedication of the masters, whose charges mostly attained positions of high rank in society, when mature.
My health improved in my teens, so I studied all the subjects I had failed to grasp at school, taught myself music, played the organ at church, and upon retirement from thirty years employment at G.E.C. Ltd, I became chairman of our local retired group, and gave lectures all over the county.

I learned to fly at Doncaster airfield, where my instructor lost his life performing a dubious manoeuvre.

I was obliged to retire from my Open University course in the third year when my wife fell ill with shingles. I am still very proud of one assignment I did for the Open University, which required an assessment of Mozart, who I detested as much as Salieri, and I composed a song, with words and music written in longhand, in 15th century style. This got me 65%!

I am a frequent contributor to various magazines, and have written ten books, non-fiction, which are worthy of a wider readership.

Jan 2005