User:Gmilland

Gerhoff Milland was a non de plume adopted by Trevor The Lockeeper in 2005. As a Lock Keeper working for British Waterways, he was asked if he would agree to being interviewed by BBC Radio Bristol. This would entail choosing three of his favourite pieces of music and talking about his life. He initially declined because he did not do 'front of house'. His father was ill at the time and it occurred to Trevor that he might like to hear a piano piece that had been written and recorded at home. The piece was called 'Fur Me Da'. Thinking the BBC would not play such an amateur offering, he invented, for the purpose of the interview, a Czech composer call Gerhoff (Garehoff) Milland (Meeland). Should one say this with a West Country accent, they would find themselves requesting an official, or the like, to remove themselves from one's property.

The BBC played the piece live on air without a second thought.

Trevor The Lockeeper developed an interest in the subject of Behavioural Safety to the extent that he wrote a book, and designed a course, specifically for the blue collar worker. The book was entitled 'Ouch! - Behavioural Safety Between The Sheets (Of Paper). He used G Milland as the nom de plume and his concepts on the subject have become known as 'The Milland Way'.

In late 2009, he and his music partner,Nathan Cox, arranged the recording of another National Anthem, entitled 'A British Pint Of Beer', but Trevor, concerned that the anthem might be hijacked by a white supremacist organisation, decided not to use his nom de plume. He maintains that "Britain is a series of elitist clubs that anybody should be allowed to join".