About Ed Broom
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Somehow, deliberately or otherwise, you have arrived at
freston.net,
the online residence of Ed Broom.
If you're after Father Ed Broom, catholic priest and Oblate Of The Virgin Mary, try the St Peter Chanel church website in sunny California. But thanks for popping in.
Presenting 56 (one per year) crucially important things about me:
- born and bred in Ipswich, Suffolk, England
- resembles Michael J. Fox, according to Avi from Carrot Cake
- father of three: Eldest, Middler and The Boy
- never been drunk
- middle name Freston ...
- ... as is my dad's, as is The Boy's
- still not got the hang of looking up before passing the ball
- table tennis player in the Ipswich & District league for 20 years
- lousy swimmer
- bikes a lot but struggles to fix a puncture
- played euphonium under Steve Williams in the Westbourne School Band
- pedant
- chose Exeter University for the "reflective pace of life"
- detests parmesan
- married to a younger woman
- collects old postcards of Ipswich
- seen Half Man Half Biscuit live three times
- enjoys black and white films with subtitles
- waited after a concert in Edinburgh to secure Haken Hardenberger's autograph
- rarely on time
- runs the website for the Ipswich Society
- has a right arm scarred from infantile cortical hyperostosis
- allergic to the office environment
- only needs to shave every other day
- grey hairs show if haircut is delayed
- won the IMDb quiz in 1996
- would prefer to have no pets, or only those with an on/off switch
- still working his way through Barry Norman's top 100 films
- both parents went to Northgate School
- least-talented member of No Great Sheiks and The Awesome Foursome
- middle child, hence natural diplomat
- eternal optimist
- loves newsagents
- does not own an umbrella
- always buys the latest Douglas Coupland and Neal Stephenson
- made on a Mac
- should get to bed earlier
- mine's a large white Americano with an extra shot
- has footballer's legs, apparently
- can throw a grape into the air and catch it in mouth
- winner of the 2007 Ip-art Short Story Competition (and runner-up in 2012)
- had a letter in the Guardian on May 10, 2008
- works at Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath
- world record holder as part of "the most participants in a table tennis rally"
- local contemporary artist, doncha know
- on the Twitter