Who is this man?

I’m Phil Barker. Sometimes people like boxes to put you in, so if you are one of those or are just curious, choose from the following:

- half English, half Barbadian chap now living just over the border in Wales and loving it so much he went to  Welsh evening classes.  No, Wales isn’t part of England. It’s part of the UK.
- a former resident of Barbados.
- father of two and husband to a lovely Swabian.
- a parent to a child with Down’s Syndrome.
- a Freemason.  If you are a potential employer and have googled me,  no, I’m not hoping you are too. I’m a postmodern, ironic, out-of-the-closet sort of freemason who has little patience with people who perpetuate daft myths about us. If you are a conspiracy theorist or believe freemasons are satanists, keep taking the pills.
- a fan of the Interdimensional Hypothesis.
- an unashamedly middle-class, sometime urban, BBC Radio 4 -listening liberal intellectual.
- a former public (that’s “private” to those of you outside the UK – don’t ask) schoolboy. All of the myths about us are true
- a lover of good food and bon viveur of the Keith Floyd school who prefers a restaurant that does great, unpretentious food with competent waiting staff who have a sense of irony to a Michelin-starred gastronomic temple.
- an armchair linguist.
- an ITIL Service Desk Manager, Desktop Support contractor and sometime IT trainer.
- a man who lives near the Wye and Monnow rivers in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK.
- a graduate of Warwick University’s French Studies department still trying to work out how to apply Proust to IT nineteen years after graduation.
- a deist (mostly).