10 Jul 2026
Not sure what to do at roundabouts? Don't worry, nobody else has a clue either.
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
What am I doing here? 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.