Hello, this is a little bio of me, Bryan Betts. Hmm, where to start? Well, I was named after my grandmother. Then, some years after that but still many years ago, I became an engineer, with a couple of degrees from Warwick University in things like electronic engineering, but I managed to escape and am now self-employed as a freelance journalist instead. This means I get no holiday pay, and my boss expects me to work seven days a week.
In my "spare" time, I take part in Dark Age/Early Mediæval re-enactments - Vikings vs Saxons, Saxons vs Normans, that type of thing - with The Vikings, formerly the NFPS. I'm now the Jarl (leader) of The Temesvikings which is the local group within The Vikings that covers the London area, Temes being an old spelling of Thames.
In this context I have appeared in TV programmes (documentaries, fiction and straight interviews) for BBC1, BBC2, Channel4, Bravo, Discovery Channel and UKTV Food, on BBC World Service radio, and for the Big Toe Radio Show on BBC7. I've also worked with other Viking Age groups and festival organisers all over Northern Europe - in recent years this has included Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Åland islands of Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Estonia and the USA. Here's a page with pictures from some of these places. If you are planning an event and would like to hire some Vikings to take part, .
I am not the guitar-playing Bryan Betts with the MySpace page, nor am I the one who posts on one or two of the SAP programming forums. I am several of the others who will turn up in a Web search, however!
If you want to chat, I strongly suggest you join CiX, the Compulink Information eXchange, which is an online/offline conferencing system. Alternatively I can often be found on ICQ (30500516) or on AIM (BryanBetts).
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8580 9725 (with voice-mail), or you can if you prefer.
Motto: Hey, anything for a weird life...
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