Mitch Bond

What is there to say? I'm an impetuous, pertinacious, and persnickety bloke who has tuppence to toss in every direction; much to the chagrin of my friends & relations. I'm a pedant in Fowler's tradition, in that I apply the title as a moniker but believe the meaning a relative one: "my pedantry is your scholarship, his reasonable accuracy, her irreducible minimum of education and someone else’s ignorance."

I love good clean air and a well-tilled countryside, bits of unmolested wood to walk in, and the presence of a body of water larger than a fishing pond though smaller than a sea. I am an amateur gourmet and a passable home cook, delighting in both. I'm a writer of prose and poetry, an avid sketch artist, and can whistle several symphonies but no more. I enjoy the art of hand bookbinding and anything that allows me to get my hands dirty or build a callous.

I enjoy fine drink and good tobacco and am ashamed of neither, believing firmly in the "the dose is the poison" rule.

I am in a fantastic relationship with a beautiful, charming, intelligent woman ♥ who gave birth to our first son, Charles Thomas, on 11 January 2011.