Michael O'Connor

Retired headteacher, allotment regular, granddad on call

📍 Liverpool, GB

🤝 Where you might know me from

Organisations

Sefton Park Allotments · Liverpool · Plot 12, eighteen years

💭 To understand me a little better

Good to know about me

Forty years in schools taught me to listen more than I talk. Mostly.

How I find communication easier

Give me a phone call.

What gives me energy

A morning on the allotment and the grandkids at the weekend.

💛 Things I love, can't get enough of, or have been dreaming about

Anything for the allotment

Seeds, a good trowel.

A bag of compost, honestly

The most useful gift.

🙅 Things that aren't really for me

Whiskey and wine

A bag of compost would make my week!

⭐ A few of my favourite things

Favourite places

the allotment at 7am — Just me, the robin and a flask.

Favourite music & bands

Christy Moore

🧰 Tips & life hacks I can share

Write the grandkids' visits on the calendar

Keeps an old man organised.

🧩 Problems I'm trying to solve — ideas welcome

Digitising forty years of school photos

I don't know where to start.

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