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Last Updated: Tuesday, 10 September 2002
Introduction;
OK so this isn't the flashiest web site you've ever seen - yet!!, it may even end up in someone's worst web sites chart, who knows?, who cares?, you may learn something here that may change your life, for the better I hope. Like ALL other web pages throughout the world, yes - this one's still under construction, but so is life and life goes on - regardless. So, please take me as you find me, learn what you will, steal what you can and enjoy. By all means, do tell me what you think and send your comments to Terry Tozer, especially if I made your day!
I'm a happily married (man - if you hadn't guessed already) with two beautiful children, a young Girl & a baby Boy named Nicole & Lawrence (respectively). My boy is named Lawrence after the great man himself.
I still have most of my own teeth, hair and a sense of humour...... well I think so anyway.
Democracy seems to be the best policy these days it seems - but since there are as many different forms of democracy as there are countries - what does democracy really mean??
As for God, I'm certain there is one, I was only speaking to him the other day when He told me that if it wasn't for all this religious bickering, there would not be half as much poverty and misery as there is today.
Currently working as a Communications Officer for the Environment Agency in England, UK; previously known as the National Rivers Authority and before that Thames Water ltd; been there since 1988.
I am on the Roads & Planning committee as parish councillor in the Calcot Ward of Tilehurst Parish Council.
Before that, I served twelve very enjoyable years in the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (REME) of the British Armed Forces.
Home;
Born in Croydon near London in England, UK and now living in Reading, Berkshire England, UK.
Martial Arts (Karate):-
Nicolé and I both love going to our local Karate Club in Theal. We practise what is known as the Shotokan Karate style. It's probably the most modern form of Karate and yet with its roots and traditions steeped in history. An absolutley fantastic way of keeping fit and very useful as a sport.
Laughter:-
Comedians - John Cleese (ex. "Monty Pythons Flying Circus" fame) and Warren Mitchell (alias Alf Garnet in "'till Death Us Do Part); they have to be the funniest people in the world ever. Also, Mr Bean aka Rowan Atkinson.
Philosophy:-
I'm a member of;-Philosophical Society of England, Royal Institute of Philosophy,
and enjoy reading the Philosophy Now Magazine
My main education is in electronics and I'm also a member of the IIE (Institution of Incorporated Engineers) and the Engineering Council.
I love Amateur Photography and Astronomy, in particular our Solar System
Computing - designing relational database's.
Science & Technology related subjects, & Physics.
My Fathers Epitaph entitled - "The Comedy of Life"
'MAN' - from when he's a pup until when he 'packs up'
Man comes into the world without his consent and leaves it against his will.
On earth he is misjudged and misunderstood. In infancy he is an angel. In boyhood he is a devil. In manhood a fool. If he has a wife and family he is a chump. If he is a bachelor he is inhuman. If he enters a public house he is a drunkard. If he stops out he is a miser.
If he is a poor man he has no brains; if he is a rich man he has had all the luck in the world. If he has brains he is considered smart but dishonest. If he goes to church he is a hypocrite. If he stays away he is a sinful man. If he gives to charity it is for advertisement. If he doesn't, he's mean.
When he comes into the world everybody wants to kiss him, before he goes out everybody wants to kick him. If he dies young there was a great future before him. If he lives to a ripe old age everybody hopes he has made a will.
From the cradle he roughs it until the day that he snuffs it.
(composed and written by my paternal/natural father Leonard Rigg 1908 - 1985)
If you'd like to search your origins and check out your family tree and who your ancestors are click here.
To see my kids grow up happily - to a ripe old age.
To win the UK National Lottery .
To meet Bill Gates and tell him in person how wonderful I think his Microsoft products (grovel, grovel...)are and ask him whether he needs someone to wash his car(s) now and then, and to be his highly paid chauffeur and wallet carrier.
Food - Chicken Tika's & Dona Kebabs
Drink - Gin (not too often 'though) and tea - gallons of it.
Favourite Sayings;
"All men dream, but not equally: Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. This I did."
q.v. T.E.Lawrence (of Arabia) from his book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"; whom many regard as a 20th Century Crusader!!....for photographs click.
"When in Rome, do as the Romans do" St. Ambrose - 337 - 397.
Don't Worry - Be Happy - Hakuna Matata??, or as T.E would say - "Why Worry?"
My favourite Poem (a recipe for sucessful living)- Rudyard Kipling said;- If
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: |
If you can dream--and not make dreams your
master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: |
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" |
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! |
Favourite Music; Handels Messiah - all of it
Country - not worldly wise enough to tell you - yet. Preferably somewhere hot & dusty!
Time - Christmas morning watching the kids open their present and Santa Claus
Favourite People;
Lawrence of Arabia, The all time British National Hero 1888 - 1935
Sir Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister and leading world statesman.
Adam & Eve - thanks to them, they started it all.
Reading; - Biographies of famous people - good and bad ones; the National Geographic journal and the Philosophy Now magazine.
Smells - The smell of freshly baked bread & printed money, not necessarily in that order.
A picture of my new son Lawrence (of course!!) at three months of age
A picture of my lovely daughter Nicolé at three and a half years of age
Where I got the inspiration from for naming my daughter Nicolé;
Estelle Skornik (from the Renault television advert) of the "Nicole - Papa" fame.
Pet Hates
Anything to do with UFO's - for all you folks out there who think that there are such things as UFO's, please rush me £1 (GB pounds sterling) or $2 (US dollars) for my personal view about what I think about UFO's.
But ..... just in case there is you could help search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence by joining the Seti Program where you download a small piece of software and whilst your PC is doing nothing this small program runs in the background and searches for ET. You never know, you could be the one that finds it !!
Royal Bashing - Having a go at the Royal Family etc, look what happened to Princess Diana!!
Car drivers who wear hats whilst driving, stay clear of them!!
Listening to the news and hearing about the latest outbreak of civil war between this and that country.
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