Bright double room with adjacent private study!

Hello there,
My name is Ben and I’m looking for a new housemate! I’m looking for someone who is ideally curious about life and the world, sociable, pretty tidy, and who likes conversation, food and drink.

I live in a great house with lots of cool features. Highlights include:

 A large garden with fruit trees, space for eating outside,
and a small lawn.
 A raised bed for herbs and greens.
 Indoor storage space for a bicycle.
 A wood burning stove in the living room.
 A six-burner cooker in the kitchen.
 Your own personal study.
 Easy access to buses to and from central Oxford.
 Ample free parking for you and any visitors.
 Only a ten-minute walk from Iffley lock.

I’ve been renting here for fourteen years and I love the place!

My most recent housemate has just moved out for personal reasons, so THE ROOM IS AVAILABLE FROM NOW. The rent listed doesn’t include council tax, utilities, or broadband which are currently about £200 pcm each.

So that’s the house and here is a little about me.

I’m 42 years old and I grew up in north London before moving to Oxford in 2007. I’ve have been a qualified Chinese medicine practitioner (acupuncture, herbal formulary, and massage) since 2007 after a 5 year, full-time course which included working in the hospitals of Beijing for six months. I also teach meditation, Taichi, and Qigong which I have studied for the last 25 years. I do not speak Chinese but, through my love of Chinese perspectives on medical theory, spirituality, and philosophy, I have managed to learn to read Classical Chinese texts.

I’m deeply interested in spirituality as a whole and have studied meditation styles from all around the world for the last twenty years. Mainly in Daoist, Tibetan Buddhist, Sufi, and native American traditions.

If this all sounds rather intellectual, or just plain strange, let me say that I grew up with great parents, I have an older sister, and I love cooking, wine, cognac, conversation about many, many things, psychology, cycling and trekking – This summer I trekked and hitchhiked solo and self-sufficiently in Iceland for a week which was fantastic!

So if you like the sound of me and the house then get in touch and we can arrange a viewing,
Ben