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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