Julian Alubaidy

words • gardens • wine • drums

‘Julian…soon built up a reputation for reliability and attention to detail…unfailing creativity…possesses a natural way with words and is both creatively gifted and professionally disciplined…

Iseult Larkin, Deputy Editor at LivingSocial

About


‘I am in all a weak disabled thing,
Save in the sight thereof, where strength doth sting’

Firstly
This is just a vanity-flavoured placeholder. I can do gardening and drumming and work with words, and muddle along in the wine business.

Secondly
It's pretty much all there in Firstly. Country mouse; half-baked town mouse, along with a pile of other near and not-so-near misses; procrastinator and machine-breaker.

Words


A fair few jobs I've done have involved writing. I think I'm quite good at it—but the world is like, whatever.

Gardens


I worked on and off for seventeen years at the Annes Grove estate in Co Cork, Ireland, while it remained in private hands.

Wine


I am a wine-merchant-of-all-trades: tasting, buying, selling on- and off-line through many vintages, chiefly at Cork city business Bubble Brothers.

Drums


I play the drums, swing family mostly. I've had a lot of luck in who I've played with, and a lot of fun, for a non-musician. Have 'em, will travel, &c.