Paul's and Lori's Web Site
(But mostly Paul's)This site is intended to help my friends and family keep in touch. I will try to fill in the blanks as I get chance, add new stuff etc..
What's New
Biographical information
Community
Cycling
Contact Information
Links
Project/Hobbies
News
Business
Dad's Page
Photos Album
Lori's Page
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This is me looking at you through your computer,
right now! Lori's picture was thought to be unkind to her and has been removed. Mine, on the other hand, was deemed to be very flattering and therefore remains.
Business
LANDSCAPE LIGHTING
- Bussines is great. They say it takes 12 months to start a new business and I wouldn't believe them, but twelve months to the day, the phone started ringing and it hasn't stopped yet. Oops, there it goes again. I have work lined up till September 2000 and am having to subcontract projects out to keep up. I hope the economy doesn't fall flat any time soon. Actually, it might be nice if it slowed down a little.
Creative
Exterior
Lighting
27 July 2000
It finally happened. i got some publicity for my business. Just check ou this link to the Washington Post
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS
- I have had to give this up as I am too busy with ILLUMINATA. I am "on call" for emergencies if needed but that won't happen.
Community
I just retook my First Aid and CPR certification. I need these for my coaching license though I hope I never need the training. I feel like I should give blood too but I haven't got round to it yet. Apparantly I can't give blood due to the possibility that all English people and some Americans carry mad cow disease! Talk about paranoid.
- I started coaching again. I am coaching a rider from Georgia over the internet and am the official coach of the Baltimore Bicycle Club Racing Team. More on that later............
- Later: I've bailed out of coaching the BBC as I'm too busy. I am doing the occasional talk for them though.
Contact Information
Please e-mail me. I'd love to know what's going on in your life. Especially people I haven't heard from in a while. I'm finding e-mail is great for this.
paul@CreativeExteriorLighting.com
Biographical Information
I was born in Failsworth, a small town that is part of the Manchester conurbation in England.
I went to Stansfield Road Primary and Junior School and then to Failsworth Comprehensive. I did an apprenticeship at Mather & Platt in Electrical and Mechanical engineering for four years and then got tired of being poor so went contracting at various firms around Manchester
In 1989 I went to Santa Rosa, Northern California, to race with Parky. A month later I went to Toledo, Ohio to race with Greg. While I was there, I met Lori, who is now my wife. She came to Manchester in September and I followed a month later.
The first half of 1990 I spent in Manchester with Lori who was at university there. After that, I went back to Toledo to race, but before I went, I bought a house in Moston. BIG mistake.
I came back to Manchester after three months and lived in Moston while I worked at British Nuclear Fuels in Warrington. In September 1991 I went to Cincinnati, Ohio to live with Lori who had started a PHD there. I stayed there for a year and trained and raced full time, I did a few odd jobs and brewed lots of beer too. I also got engaged. I had a great racing season as I was so fit from training all the time. It was like being a pro only without getting paid, but I managed to get by off my winnings.
I had to come back in October, 1992 to apply for a fiancee visa etc. I spent 3 miserable months in England; it rained everyday, I couldn't get a job and I missed Lori. I stayed with my parents as I had rented the house.
I went back to Cincinnati in January, 1993. I couldn't get a real job so I worked at a restaurant for a couple of months and then at a landscape company, Botanics. During 1993 I was a landscape laborer and a pretend racing cyclist. The rigors of the landscape industry are too much for a cycling career to compete with and my heart wasn't in it any more either. So I hid in the bunch for a season and retired at the end of it. We got married in July and went to Niagara Falls with both our families for our honeymoon.
That winter, instead of training, I started coaching. I had taken my certification tests a year earlier and thought it would be a good way to stay involved. Anyway, the Cincinnati cycling scene needed some help, it was a bit stagnant at the time.
During 1994-97 I developed both my coaching and my landscaping careers. I moved through landscape supervisor, Lighting Division manager, Retail Division Manager and finally Office Manager where I virtually developed a complete office system almost from scratch. I coached a club team, then organized a coaching program for all area cyclists and finally put together an group that helped train another ten or so coaches to make Cincinnati on of the most highly concentrated areas in the country for certified cycling coaches. At one time, the District of Ohio and West Virginia had about fifteen coaches in it; eleven of those were in Cincinnati.
During 1997, with our departure from the area approaching, I cut back my coaching to just a small developmental team and left Botanics to form my own landscape lighting company.
This is where I live now:
Washington DC
This is where I used to live:
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/selections/index.html
This is a great site with wonderful photos of Manchester. It even has a link to my dad's pictures on it somewhere.Her's a great article about the Manchester subculture centered around the Hacienda night club.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98oct/hacienda.htmIf you want to speak like me, go here:
Northern Slang DictionaryThis is my favorite beer:
BoddingtonsInteresting place someone found:
Eddleston Village
And AgainThis page has some of my favorite comedies:
BBC Comedy ZoneThese guys are the funniest people on the radio:
Car TalkSomething else I like:
Exoticar ModelsHere is a link to a great site all about Lancashire
http://www.lancashire-online.co.uk
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