User:GrahamHardy

Graham Hardy (born 1965) is an EDI Consultant living in Bramerton near Norwich in England.

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My life so far
Born in Hertford County Hospital I lived in Hertford until the age of four when I moved to Hoddesdon where I attended The Cranbourne School and The John Warner School before obtaining a place at Newcastle University where I gained a degree in Computing Science and became a Christian.

After spending a year in voluntary work at St Mary's Church, Bramall Lane in Sheffield I got a job in Norwich working in IT specializing in EDI.

In December 2019 I suffered from bacterial meningitis and took 12 months to return fully to work.

Interests

 * Past contributor to www.wetroads.co.uk (An online guide to every UK ford, watersplash and tidal road)
 * Past contributor to Geograph
 * Wikipedia - (directory, Portal:Novels, Edit counter, Category watchlist,Traffic count User stats, Top 25 Report
 * Past Norwich City Football Club member
 * Support several charities including Tearfund, Operation Mobilisation, SPUC and Reachout Trust
 * Support several charities including Tearfund, Operation Mobilisation, SPUC and Reachout Trust

Books
See book articles created

Artists

 * Adrienne Adams
 * Arthur Barbosa
 * Russell Ayto
 * John Lawrence (illustrator)
 * Alan Reynolds (artist)
 * Margot Tomes
 * Leslie Wood (illustrator)

Others

 * Diane Allahgreen
 * Bridget Allchin
 * Derek Allhusen
 * Donald Adamson
 * Giles Cooper

Rail crashes

 * UK :


 * US :


 * Other :

Short stories

 * "An Alpine Idyll"
 * "Banal Story"
 * "Louisa, Please Come Home"
 * "Minus One"
 * "The New Dress"
 * "Old Man at the Bridge"
 * "Paranoia"
 * "Proof Positive"
 * "A Pursuit Race"
 * "Ten Indians"

Others

 * Allard Clipper
 * The Imitation Game
 * Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration
 * John Long Ltd
 * Return to Eden (disambiguation)
 * Sinclair-Stevenson

Trains Portal

 * ...that the 1906 Atlantic City train wreck, in which a West Jersey and Seashore Railroad train fell off a bridge in Atlantic City in the United States, killing 53 people, saw public relations expert Ivy Lee work with the Pennsylvania Railroad to issue what is regarded as the first ever press release?

By Brazilian Cities
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By UK County
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By US State
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Alumni & academics

 * Category:Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University alumni/faculty
 * Category:Belarus State Economic University alumni
 * Category:Belarusian State Academy of Arts alumni
 * Category:Capilano University alumni
 * Category:Central American University people
 * Category:Chiba University alumni
 * Category:Claverack College alumni
 * Category:Academic staff of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital
 * Category:Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad alumni
 * Category:Academic staff of Madurai Kamaraj University
 * Category:Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad
 * Category:Academic staff of Kyushu University
 * Category:Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University alumni
 * Category:People educated at City College Norwich
 * Category:People educated at Colegio Centro América
 * Category:People educated at Queen's College, London
 * Category:People educated at King George V College
 * Category:People educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry
 * Category:People educated at Pymble Ladies' College
 * Category:People educated at the Royal Wolverhampton School
 * Category:Polytechnic University of Catalonia people
 * Category:Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava alumni
 * Category:Sri Venkateswara University alumni
 * Category:Sultan Idris Education University alumni
 * Category:Umm al-Qura University alumni
 * Category:Academic staff of the University of Cantabria
 * Category:University of Fine Arts of Hamburg alumni/faculty
 * Category:University of Jammu alumni/faculty
 * Category:University of Oviedo alumni
 * Category:Academic staff of the University of the Balearic Islands
 * Category:Ural State University people
 * Category:Vigor High School alumni

Others

 * Category:Aluminium sculptures
 * Category:Canals by year of opening
 * Category:Companies based in Winterthur
 * Category:Copper sculptures
 * Category:Danish conservationists
 * Category:Diamonds originating in South Africa
 * Category:Highest points of English counties
 * Category:Highest points of Irish counties
 * Category:Highest points of Norwegian counties
 * Category:Highest points of historic Scottish counties
 * Category:Highest points of Welsh counties
 * Category:Horse racing novels
 * Category:Kirkwall
 * Category:Northern People's Party politicians
 * Category:Novels about architects
 * Category:Novels about artists
 * Category:Novels about association football
 * Category:Novels about boxing
 * Category:Novels about composers
 * Category:Novels about golf
 * Category:Novels by Deborah Moggach
 * Category:Novels by Jon Cleary
 * Category:People from Gloucestershire (before 1904)‎
 * Category:Ships built by Harland and Wolff
 * Category:Ships built on the River Hamble
 * Category:Short stories about boxing
 * Category:Swiss conservationists

Book cover images provided
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Templates created

 * Template:Kate Atkinson
 * Template:William Boyd
 * Template:Peter Carey
 * Template:John le Carré
 * Template:Ira Levin
 * Template:Audrey Erskine Lindop
 * Template:David Lodge
 * Template:Hilary Mantel
 * Template:Magnus Mills
 * Template:Dan Rhodes
 * Template:Ali Smith
 * Template:Muriel Spark
 * Template:Graham Swift
 * Template:Minette Walters

Wiki edits

 * Jul 2008 - 8217 edits, ranked #3153
 * Feb 2009 - 16585 edits, ranked #1697
 * Jul 2009 - 20734 edits, ranked #1383
 * Feb 2010 - 35509 edits, ranked #696
 * Jun 2010 - 48523 edits, ranked #423
 * Jan 2011 - 56427 edits, ranked #380
 * Jun 2011 - 72708 edits, ranked #262
 * Jan 2012 - 89462 edits, ranked #201
 * Jul 2012 - 107065 edits, ranked #139
 * Jan 2013 - 126302 edits, ranked #115
 * Jul 2013 - 139759 edits, ranked #100
 * Jan 2014 - 156472 edits, ranked #90
 * Jun 2014 - 166302 edits, ranked #83
 * Jan 2015 - 196415 edits, ranked #68
 * Jul 2015 - 210672 edits, ranked #67
 * Jan 2016 - 227942 edits, ranked #62
 * Jun 2016 - 241319 edits, ranked #63
 * Jan 2017 - 263337 edits, ranked #62
 * Jul 2017 - 285137 edits, ranked #59
 * Jan 2018 - 301917 edits, ranked #59
 * Jul 2018 - 329740 edits, ranked #54
 * Jan 2019 - 345898 edits, ranked #54
 * Jun 2019 - 372783 edits, ranked #51
 * Jan 2020 - 381609 edits, ranked #53
 * Jun 2020 - 384050 edits, ranked #56
 * Jan 2021 - 404685 edits, ranked #59
 * Jun 2021 - 420109 edits, ranked #53
 * Jan 2022 - 432706 edits, ranked #57
 * Jun 2022 - 442475 edits, ranked #59
 * Jan 2023 - 458363 edits, ranked #58
 * Jun 2023 - 473710 edits, ranked #57

To do List

 * Dutch names begin without Van, see WP:MCSTJR
 * Category:Icelandic people with family names
 * Task Center
 * Cthulhu Mythos anthology
 * Nouran Elmagghauri
 * sort Category:All orphaned articles
 * http://www.flickr.com/photos/faberandfaber/
 * http://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/index.htm
 * http://www.ashrare.com/catalogue_95.html
 * http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/aus-fiction/xaus-fiction.html
 * http://www.alephbet.com/searchResults.php?action=browse&category_id=251
 * http://harmonia.meccahosting.com/~a000682b/
 * Check Category:Novel has infobox needing 1st edition cover
 * Check Category:Novel has infobox needing cover
 * Category:Fantasy books by series
 * illustrate Category:Newbery Honor winning works, Governor General's Award for English language fiction Category:1939 books
 * Expand Category:People from India by district
 * Check football club defsorts : up to 1916
 * Add Event venue establishments
 * Continue moving South and East from Bramerton expanding and creating village articles :
 * Chedgrave
 * Loddon Ingloss
 * Create Colin Bostock Smith article
 * Create Family d'Alembert (by Stephen Goldin) articles
 * Create Wheatfen Broad article
 * Create Kriva Cuprija article

Cars

 * Drive
 * 2006 Hyundai Matrix
 * 2007 Ford S-Max
 * 2002 Vauxhall Corsa
 * Driven
 * 1974 Morris Marina
 * 1982 Datsun Cherry coupe
 * 1984 Mazda 323
 * 1985 VW Polo
 * 1988 Volvo 340
 * 1991 Suzuki Swift
 * 1998 Skoda Felicia
 * 2002 Vauxhall Zafira
 * 2003 Vauxhall Meriva
 * 2007 VW Touran

Reading
/Reading

Films
/Watched

Words
/Words

Diversions

 * Gridlock Solutions available from myself
 * Planarity
 * Battleships up to 193 solved (two solutions to 603)

Sandbox
/Clarence Mitchell /Sandpit /Free Love

from The Sound and the Fury

 * The train swung around the curve, the engine puffing with short, heavy blasts, and they passed smoothly from sight that way, with that quality about them of shabby and timeless patience, of static serenity: that blending of childlike and ready incompetence and paradoxical reliability that tends and protects them it loves out of all reason and robs them steadily and evades responsibility and obligations by means too barefaced to be called subterfuge even and is taken in theft or evasion with only that frank and spontaneous admiration for the victor which a gentleman feels for anyone who beats him in a fair contest, and withal a fond and unflagging tolerance for white folks' vagaries like that of a grandparent for unpredictable and troublesome children, which I had forgotten.

(From page 73 of Vintage Classics edition publ. 1995)

From As I Lay Dying

 * ''In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep.
 * ''And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you.
 * ''And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not.
 * ''And when you were filled with sleep, you never were.
 * ''I don't know what I am.
 * ''I don't know if I am or not.
 * ''Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not.
 * ''He cannot empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not.

(From page 73 of Vintage Classics edition publ. 2004)