About
Name: Alan Brand
Currently living in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, previously in Toronto. I started in London, England, until I emigrated in 1967 at the ripe old age of 20. Owen Sound is reputed to be the third-snowiest city in Canada and I have proof.
I’m currently working from my home-based virtual office as a self-employed computer consultant, specialising in custom application software and website design & maintenance : see www.xises.net
When I’m not on the computer, I like to do family things with my wife, Jan, and daughter, Amy. Left behind in Toronto, and sorely missed, are my adult daughters - Alexa, and her son Jamie, and Leah, and her husband, Grant.
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Alexa, Amy & Leah : Christmas, 2008 |
I also enjoy driving my 1967 Jaguar 420, “Grace” …
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… and belong to three car clubs :
I also run a car “non-club”: |
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I still enjoy the music of my youth - Blues, R&B and Soul, pre-disco Rock N Roll - and I’ve learned to enjoy some Jazz, and Classical music (no organs thank you!) in my dotage.
I’m beyond playing sports these days, but I like to watch Rugby, “proper” Football (soccer to my north american friends), NFL Football (Oakland Raiders). I confess to a morbid fascination with televised curling.
I like to drink draught Guinness in pubs. 
