User:MapsMan

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Wall of Sound (record label) — a label that features in my record collection.
Akasha (band) — a band formerly signed to Wall of Sound
Sunderland Symphony Orchestra — of which I was formerly am a member.
Old Bill — about the origin of the Colloquial British term (now moved to Wikitionary).
Rokin — a street in Amsterdam, one of my favourite cities.
National Tariff System — about the Dutch public transport ticketing system.
SmartWater — an anti-theft system about which I was trying to find info, and to my horror had no Wikipedia entry!
AntiProduct — crazy, crazy punk rockers!
Alex Kane — AntiProduct's eccentric frontman
Clam Abuse — side project of Alex Kane, with Ginger of The Wildhearts.
Haxo (Paris Métro) — ghost station on Paris métro which I mainly translated from French Wikipedia.
Vocal Sampling — a fantastic Cuban a cappella salsa band, whom I saw live at the Royal Albert Hall during a Prom-season.
Ebenezer Place, Wick — the world's shortest street (featured in Wikipedia:Unusual articles).
A1018 road in Sunderland
Single carriageway — the British term for the most common (i.e. undivided) type of road, highway or street.
NewcastleGateshead — the now increasingly fashionable brand name for the Newcastle and Gateshead conurbation.
Holy Trinity, Sunderland — by far the best building in Sunderland
Leinster Gardens — a street in London containing a false façade concealing a London Underground line.
Hindhead Tunnel — the longest non-estuarial tunnel in the United Kingdom (under construction).
Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company — notable structural engineering company.
{{Structurae firm}} — for linking to firms in the Structurae database.
{{ISO8601}} — for creating an ISO 8601 date/time-stamp.
H_TB — the symbol for the heat loss due to thermal bridging in the analysis of the energy performance of buildings in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
Chislehurst Junction — important railway junction in Kent/South East London
{{Tyne and Wear Metro}} — schematic route diagram of Tyne and Wear Metro network
Bancroft family — the former owners of Dow Jones & Company
List of primary destinations on the UK road network
Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002 (stub)
Dead hedge — ancient technique for forming an artificial barrier made of natural materials.
Dunham Bridge — toll bridge over the River Trent, England.

Not included are stub articles which were created for disambiguation purposes.

My main interest is music, followed by travel (born out of an interest in Geography and transport), language (including foreign languages, Etymology, linguistics, phonology/phonetics) and "culture", which I take to include my main love, music, as well as art, literature, poetry, or anything that takes my fancy!

I am a former member of the Sunderland Symphony Orchestra, playing the Viola. I am also a member of lunastation, which is an electronic music project/collective/group producing work broadly falling into the categories of chill-out, ambient or trip-hop.

I hold dual UK and Australian citizenship, although I have never - as yet - set foot "down under". I was born in 1981 in Enfield, the most northerly Borough of London. Between 2000 and 2007, I lived on Tyneside, having moved there to study Civil Engineering at Newcastle University and remained in the region after finishing my studies. I graduated with a 2:1 MEng (hons) degree in 2004. I now live in Cricklewood, in the London Borough of Barnet.

I currently work as a traffic engineer for London Borough of Harrow. I also hold a CertTESOL, which means I can Teach English as a Foreign Language anywhere in the world.

The anagram of my real name is fey wanders far, which I think is fantastically appropriate, providing you accept the poetic licence of using the adjective fey as a noun and in a very loose interpretation.

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SuzanneKn awarded me the Special Barnstar for my work on the Hindhead Tunnel article on June 12 2007.

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- Spanish (Castellano) (IP 2)
- Spanish (Castellano) (IP 3)
- Danish (IP 3)
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- German (IP 4)
- French (IP 2)
- French (IP 3)
- Italian (IP 3)
- Dutch
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- Scots
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- West Flemish

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Idea and layout stolen from User:White Cat.

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lunastation

lunastation on Myspace
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wanderlust.cz

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