My school careers advisor suggested I became a farmer. This was a shock because the nearest I got to agriculture was the greengrocers. Perhaps he was using the \u2018Mr. Drip the Plumber\u2019s Employment Guide\u2019. Young Bullock must become\u2026 a farmer!<\/p>\n
So imagine my surprise to be living here in Dorset. Not a farmer, but living on a farm, with waxed jacket and thermal wellies. It took a few decades to get here, via London (a reasonably-sized town east of Wessex). I carved out a career as one of the UK\u2019s leading lighting design consultants, working on contracts throughout the UK. When I say \u2018carved\u2019, it was more of a bas-relief than a statue \u2013 urban living being a two-dimensional business, where the opening gambit of \u2018and what do you do?\u2019 determines whether you spend the rest of the evening talking to yourself.<\/p>\n
An inevitable siren call brought us west, where it\u2019s more a question of \u2018who am I?\u2019 I\u2019ve heard Dorset described as \u2018the graveyard of ambition\u2019, but I think that\u2019s just bad medicine from urbanites frightened of too much green.<\/p>\n
Lighting design feeds and clothes us, but I have re-found my singing self. I\u2019d always sung, usually alone in a locked room. These days I\u2019m enjoying working within the English roots tradition (folk songs to you), recently releasing a portfolio of songs and photographs from West Dorset, called \u2018Soundscape\u2019. A tour of village halls is anticipated later this year.<\/p>\n
Did I mention the labyrinths? I\u2019ve always been fascinated by \u2018earth mysteries\u2019 and there\u2019s no better place for that than Wessex. I design and build labyrinths – not those mazy things, but pilgrim paths used for meditation and contemplation. There\u2019s one at Godmanstone, another planned at Monkton Wyld Court, and occasional temporary structures here at Townhill Farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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