Travelling Trev

ABOUT ME

Born Truro, Cornwall in 1972. I am pedigree Cornish and fiercely proud of it. I have one sister, Philipa who is five years my senior. I live in Southampton with my wife, Gemma. I was previously widowed. My wonderful wife, Helen died in Nov 2008 of cancer. We’d shared 16 amazing years together. She made me better than I am.  I am a primary school teacher, a profession I love. 

I’m a keen musician and I play the piano and the drums. Music is very important to me and I enjoy listening to and composing music. I’m also an avid reader of fiction and non-fiction. My favourite authors are Dean Koontz, and children’s authors Michael Morpurgo, Malorie Blackman and Michelle Paver. I also love poetry and Shakespeare. I have been published a number of times in various geographical magazines and newpapers. These articles are mostly related to teaching and geographical research I have undertaken. I’m a football addict and, until recently, I played regularly until a knee dislocation signalled the end of my 'career'. Television wise, I watch documentaries and sport, that’s about it. I detest ‘reality’ and ‘talent’ shows. 

Obviously, I love to travel, especially to mountainous regions. I also enjoy city breaks and have been to some beautiful cities including Krakow, Prague, Vienna and Buenos Aires. I like to explore the historical stories of cities. My idea of a nightmare holiday is flying to a sunny resort in Lanzagrotti or Ibiza. Not only do I get extremely nervous when in an aircraft, but I prefer temperate and cold, to tropical and hot. 

I have no fear of death. That isn’t to say I am reckless or that I don’t value life; the opposite in fact. When you hold your wife’s hand as she dies, you recognise how precious life is. I will cherish everything I experience however when my time is up, I will not be afraid. 


'All that I'm after is a life full of laughter
As long as I'm laughing with you
And I think that all that still matters is love ever after
After the life we've been through
'Cause I know there's no life after you'

Daughtry
There's a ship out
On the ocean
At the mercy of the sea
It's been tossed about lost and broken
Wandering aimlessly 
And God, somehow you know that ship is me
There's a lighthouse in a harbour shining faithfully
Pouring its light out across the water
For this sinking soul to see 
That someone out there still believes in me

On a prayer, in a song
I hear your voice and it keeps me hanging on
Raining down against the wind
I'm reaching out 'til we reach the circle's end
When you come back to me again
                                     
Garth Brooks 
Come to the edge
We might fall
Come to the edge
It’s too high!
Come to the edge
And they came
and we pushed
And they flew.

Christopher Logue, 1968
I'm only here tonight because of you  
You are the reason I am. 
You are all my reasons.

Professor John Nash
Teacher's TV
Because you’ll meet each other in the street in 30 years time
And there’ll just be a look
And you’ll know how special some days in your life are…
We've proved that the lion has teeth
We’ve wounded a springbok
When an animal is wounded, it returns in frenzy
It doesn’t think
The lion waits…and when the time is right
Goes for the jugular…
Today, on that field, every pass, every tackle, every kick
Is saying to a springbok, ‘You’re dying!’
And on that field today, all it will be sometimes, is a look, no words…
Just a look
And the biggest thing it will say is, ‘You are special, very very special!’
Go out...enjoy it…remember how you got here and why
Finish it off…and be special for the rest of your lives!

Ian McGeechan – Lions Tour 1997
Speech before Second Test
MACBETH
Wherefore was that cry?

SEYTON
The queen, my lord, is dead.

MACBETH
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5

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