john p birchall

birchalljohn p birchall ... student, saxophonist ... general whippersnapper and twerp ...

My interests seem to spread from family, home & garden to computers, beer and all kinds of sport ... and when time permits ... economics and music ...

 

studies

here I am ... wrestling with economic models ... 

 

sax player

                 ... and again ... trying to play 'A Cup of Coffee a Sandwich & You' on my Yanagisawa ...

 

 

here's the family ... The Family

and the house and garden ...

Jonathan with Len Hutton ... len hutton

and Sally rowing for England ... rowing

and the momentous event of 2003 Joshua David Birchall ... Josh and 1 year old ... josh 1

 and in a flash 2  ... josh 2  and now 3  ... josh 3  and 4 ... josh 4 and 5 ...Josh 5    6 ... Josh 6 years old     7 ... Josh 7 years

and December 2005 Georgia May ... Georgia May  and 1 year ... Georgia May and 2 ...  Georgia May 2

  3 ... Georgia May 3   4 ...Georgia May four  5 ... Georgia May 5 years

and what we've been waiting for - July 1st 2006 Jake Edward John  ... Jake   

... and a year later ... Jake 1  ... 2  Jake 2 ... 3  Jake 3 years ... 4  Jake 4

... 5 Jake 5

and June 14th 2009 Daniel James David ... Daniel ... and 1 year old Daniel 1 year old ... 2  Daniel 2

Carole - Bridge Champion ... Carole Bridge and racing for life ... Race for Life

A special day for the family - 18th September 2007  ... 

Eda 100 years old   ...  an inspiration ... 100 years old

Eda died exhausted but still smiling on July 25th 2011 at 3 pm ... aged 103 ... RIP

 

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I was almost educated in science & cricket at the king's school, Chester and as a Chemical Engineer, at glasgow university close to the gutters of Sauchiehall Street ... experienced as a Factory Manager with Unilever, where I learned most of my economics under the soap pans in Apapa ... this was before the male menopause nudged me into a second degree in Economics ... and if you're really interested in this strange tale of woe, pelf and evolution it's here

Why ... do almost all folk seem to pontificate about economic policy? ... ? Believe it or not but evolutionary analysis of practical economic policy interests me ... !!

I have a Selmer Mark VI soprano saxophone and a Yanagisawa tenor and play with a few mates around Chester ... bags of enthusiasm, lousy sound ... playing for our own meagre fun and the gross amusement of others ...

Why ... do almost all folk seem to love music of one kind or another ? ... ? I enjoy Dixieland Jazz and I've managed to absorb a little of the technical bits about music and even attempted improvisation ... !!

I admit I'm a curmudgeon - an ill tempered fellow, full of resentment and stubborn notions - but I've worked hard for one of my notions ... the explanatory pervasiveness of evolution ... who would believe it ... but as the other man said, 'I only mess with all this stuff because I can ...' ...

Evolutionary Economics is here

Dixieland Jazz is here

 ... and if you really want to see me again ?   john_p.jpg (318271 bytes)