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1) Where do you live?
2) How old are you?
3) Married, or otherwise attached?
4) Kids? How many? How old?
5) Pets?
6) Occupation?
7) Religious leanings?
8) Political leanings?
9) What do you do for fun?
10) Play any instruments?
11) Favorite types of music?
12) What makes YOU special?


1) Where do you live?
Belgium, in a small village 25 km east of Brussels.

2) How old are you?
39, since April.

3) Married, or otherwise attached?
Married, since October 1993.

4) Kids? How many? How old?
Three, aged nine, nearly seven and three and a half.

5) Pets?
None.

6) Occupation?
Political analyst, specialising in the Balkans and Caucasus, with side orders of Moldova, Cyprus, the European Union and Northern Ireland..

7) Religious leanings?
Liberal Catholic.

8) Political leanings?
Liberal, in the British sense of left-of-centre but not socialist.

9) What do you do for fun?
Read science fiction. Blog.

10) Play any instruments?
Not any more. Experimented with violin and clarinet at school. Ascended to the dizzy rank of Second Percussionist in the City of belfast Youth Orchestra.

11) Favorite types of music?
Rather eclectic. I am a big fan of Sibelius. But also like all the standards of the last 40 years, with Pink Floyd perhaps on top of the playlist at the moment.

12) What makes YOU special?
You tell me!