view from my computer room in Winter
My wife Barbara retired from her job with Bradford College in Summer 2004,
where she has been instrumental in developimg the teaching of English
to people whose 1st language is not English.
Her work is the best means I know in building bridges of friendship
with people of Other Faiths and Cultures
She is delighted that instead of spending money buying stamps,
I am now selling them instead!
In fact I took up collecting Japanese stamps,
but the money I make is 5 times more than the money I spend,
so I am still in Barbara good books.
Apart from not listing for a few weeks before holidays and other times away,
I list lots when I feel like it (!) and am not too busy otherwise, and try to get a selection of GB stamps, covers, booklets,
Commonwealth and Japanese, most of which are fairly low value lots.
The Japanese I sell are those from lots I buy that are surplus to my requirements.
Surprisingly, selling my stamps gives me physical exercise!
I always get a certificate of posting for the stamps I am sending off so that I can prove
that they have been sent are a record of where to in case of non delivery,
and so that I can claim the value from the PO if it gets lost.
This involves a walk of a mile or more, down hill to the Post Office
And then back again, uphill!
More about ME!
I was Born in Chelmsford, Essex, England in 1935, my memories of the 2nd World War
are somewhat remote, mainly from scrounging timber from a house destroyed by
enemy bombs and the knowledge that 2 cousins died in a raid as
Marconi, of Radar fame, was targeted, but missed.
I served 2 years in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) for my National Service.
The cynics say that the initials stand for Run Away Someone's Coming
as we were either drivers or office staff!
It was a peacetime army, and I never had to point a typewriter at anyone in anger!
Then 3 years at University at St John College Durham reading Social Sciences Politics, Economics,
Psychology, Statistics and probably other things that are lost in the mist of time,
and are certainly no longer are part of my memory!
Then 2 delightful years in Cambridge training to be a Church of England clergyman.
A couple of years in Stratford, E London where the church I was at was isolated in the middle
of the main East Coast route with 3 lanes of traffic surrounding it.
That meant that only 2 sort of people got to church the quick and the dead!
Then another couple of years in Rotherham near Sheffield,
where the huge steel works all closed down, but that was not my fault, honest!
For 12 years I represented the Church Mission Society for Africa and the East as
Travelling secretary in West Yorkshire and Manchester. This involved a lot of preaching
and promoting support for the Anglican church overseas.
Then I was offered the most intensively multi racial parish in Inner City Bradford,
80% of the residents originating from the Asian subcontinent.
Many people from Poland and the Ukraine lived there too,
And I overlooked the largest Ukrainian Social Club in Britain,
which previously had been occupied by a lady who had been a member of the church.
Those were the days of the ady of the Manor
So I ended up putting into practice what I had been promoting for the previous 12 years,
part of which was working with representatives of the Muslim and Hindu communities
to build 2 community centres
I spent 20 years there setting up alternative use for the church, establishing a Care centre for
Elderly people and folk with a wide variety of educational, social,
psychological and other Special Needs.
If you want to see what developed, and has grown larger after I retired (!) look
here
What else?
I am the house husband, and Barbara has generously agreed to let me continue in that capacity now she has retired. I also spend quite a lot of time looking after my 8 year old granddaughter.
The Church of England relies heavily on retired clergy to take services when vicars are away, so I help out at my church in Shipley.
Also I am the Secretary and Treasurer of the Elland Society, founded in AD 1767,
which gives small grants to people training to be Church of England clergy see here
Elland Society
Other interests
From my school days I played the viola and was fortunate
to play in a school orchestra in Chelmsford and the Essex Symphony Orchestra.
Looking back, I feel my enthusiasm was somewhat greater than my ability,
and when I started work in the City of London with an Insurance firm after leaving school
playing in an orchestra got lost in the realm of adult life.
When I was about aged 50, after falling on ice as I delivered leaflets round my parish
I was unable to use my left wrist so I gave my instruments to my old school for their orchestra.
However, the love of Classical music stays with me and as I sit at my computer I usually have
Classical FM playing on the radio.
While doing my travelling job in the 1970 I developed an interest in Palaeontology,
so I always sought out the rock faces where I might be able to pick up fossils from the fallen rock.
I often came home with 7 or 8 kilos of rock to investigate! My wife tolerated this, I know not why!
A lot got put out into the garden and some day in the future a Geologist might buy that house
and be surprised to find that although I lived in a Carboniferous Millstone Grit area,
that they will find there
shale from Whitby (a Jurassic location on the East Coast of Yorkshire),
Limestone (from the Yorkshire Dales),
Cretaceous Chalk deposits (from the South of England)
And a variety of other rocks like Laterite from Sierra Leone!
Now my specimens are housed in my attic,
very close to the main supporting wall!
I think they are adequately supported I hope so, as they are just above my computer room!
I would much rather go to the attic to consult my fossils
than their coming down to see me!
Thanks to..
Dave Frick (philatarium) for hosting my pictures on his web space.
Jim Watson (Jimbo) and
Jim Whitford Stark (Iomoon) for technical advice in constructing this site
and the encouragement to do it!
And to Richard Frajola (1covers) for correcting the obvious
(to everyone else but me!)
Oh, and this is ME!
Colin Judd
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