Welcome to the webpages of Tim Brooks

	Home The entry point for Old Time Tim's website
	Fiddle Music Collection of dance tunes composed by me and me mates
	Songs and Monologues what I wrote
	Strung Up Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire's newest Dance Band!!
	The Hoofers A feature on the Haddenham Hoofers
	Tappalachian The new Hertfordshire based Appalachian Dance Team
	Tall Tales Stories collected over the years
	The Knoll Historic connections of my home
	Knowledge Management My personal views on this contentious subject
	Links Connect to friends, aquaintances, and other places of interest.
	Site History A log of changes to this site

........not only........

Eclectic Fiddler

traditional dance music with no single influence - if I like it I play it

Song Writer

the world's least prolific composer

Appalachian Clogger and Flat-Footer

for the hell of it

........but also........

Natural Philosopher

by training, by inclination, for a living - trust me - Newton's Third Law ain't rocket science

Pragmatist

if you've gotta swallow a Bullfrog, don't spend too long looking at it. (Old American Proverb)

Home Owner

my house " The Knoll" was once the home of the artist Rex Whistler

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Credits: Site launched, 3rd August 2006 - Site content and design the work of Tim Brooks.
Underlying structure and coding philosophy taken with permission from the work of Hamish Currie.

Pages last updated 30th November 2008 - see "NEW" on the left hand side of this page for details of this change.

This website is supported by BUCKS HOSTING High-quality affordable Web Hosting.

This is a developing site, within which the main area of interest is clearly folk music and related subjects.

I aim to add more stuff, both on folk and on my other interests, my work and my home life.

If any of this inspires you let me know.

To mail me click here

To dodge the spambots I have used a technique for coding an e-mail address provided by "Mysterious Ways"

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30th November 2008

No new content, but have changed the way links to e-mail addresses are coded on a number of pages - see reference to "Mysterious" Ways above

23rd September 2008

Text of my article "The Unwritten Rules of the Traditional Music Session" originally published in "The Living Tradition" in 2003.

23rd September 2008

Addition of a new slipjig to the FiddleTune pages of this website: "Bag on a Broomstick",

3rd October 2008

This index page run through HTML and CSS validators and errors corrected. Validation icons added

23rd September 2008

Addition of two new tunes to the FiddleTune pages of this website: "The Lobster", a Hornpipe by Mick Pearce, and "Jaybird Died of the Whooping Cough" a traditional American piece.

9th September 2008

Tidy up of Tall Tales pages of this website

7th September 2008

Page and links added to present Tappalachian a new Hertfordshire-based Appalachian dance team!!

28th January 2007

Page and links added to showcase Strung Up Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire's newest Dance Band!!

Visit Site History for a record of previous changes