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This user loves to bowl, but would love to get more strikes.
My career as a sports spectator, perhaps spurred on by my own sporting incompetence, has consistently featured a peculiarly English proclivity for the support of the talented but tragically doomed. A keen (though latterly increasingly disillusioned)
Tim Henman supporter until his retirement, I also supported that serial near-winner
Jimmy White (if you want to know why, take a look at
this). An ardent
Worcestershire fan, I retain the firm belief that
Graeme Hick was the finest batsman of his generation, and the most ill-used by England's selectors. The Worcestershire side of my youth also featured such England discards as
Vikram Solanki,
Gareth Batty,
Kabir Ali and
Steve Rhodes; the woefully unlucky
Simon Jones has also passed through the ranks. The side remains wonderfully talented but frustratingly inconsistent, though their presence in the top division of both domestic teams for the 2009 season is most pleasing. Inevitably, I am also a fan of the similarly talented and frustratingly inconsistent
England cricket team. Thus also rugby union and football, though I follow them less.
Music
Instruments
This user plays the double bass, and thus requires this extra-large userbox to show it.
An amateur musician, whose brief excursion into the realms of semi-professionalism exposed his limitations. Will listen to anything, from
Bach and
Beethoven, to
Brahms and
Bruckner, to
Bernstein and
Berlin, to
Basie, to
Brown. And
bassists, of course.
I have attempted to study various languages at different stages, with varying degrees of success.
I try not to be too pedantic with regard to linguistics. It's hard sometimes.
This is a Wikipediauser page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a
mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user whom this page is about may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BartBassist.
This user loves to bowl, but would love to get more strikes.
My career as a sports spectator, perhaps spurred on by my own sporting incompetence, has consistently featured a peculiarly English proclivity for the support of the talented but tragically doomed. A keen (though latterly increasingly disillusioned)
Tim Henman supporter until his retirement, I also supported that serial near-winner
Jimmy White (if you want to know why, take a look at
this). An ardent
Worcestershire fan, I retain the firm belief that
Graeme Hick was the finest batsman of his generation, and the most ill-used by England's selectors. The Worcestershire side of my youth also featured such England discards as
Vikram Solanki,
Gareth Batty,
Kabir Ali and
Steve Rhodes; the woefully unlucky
Simon Jones has also passed through the ranks. The side remains wonderfully talented but frustratingly inconsistent, though their presence in the top division of both domestic teams for the 2009 season is most pleasing. Inevitably, I am also a fan of the similarly talented and frustratingly inconsistent
England cricket team. Thus also rugby union and football, though I follow them less.
Music
Instruments
This user plays the double bass, and thus requires this extra-large userbox to show it.
An amateur musician, whose brief excursion into the realms of semi-professionalism exposed his limitations. Will listen to anything, from
Bach and
Beethoven, to
Brahms and
Bruckner, to
Bernstein and
Berlin, to
Basie, to
Brown. And
bassists, of course.
I have attempted to study various languages at different stages, with varying degrees of success.
I try not to be too pedantic with regard to linguistics. It's hard sometimes.