Ben
Unsurprisingly, this bit of the site is all about me. And if you’re here by accident, now is probably a good time to leave. This is a place, much like Pandora’s box, in which all kinds of surprises can be found.
Benaston.com is a bit like an art gallery; many things to look at, most of which you probably won’t understand. But the very least you can do is put on your best ‘cultured’ hat, and look thoughtfully, as though you were examining something that has some intrinsic merit. It really does.
Additionally, this site performs an important role keeping hoi polloi updated with all the latest ‘Ben Aston’ developments. Informative and amusing it may be, thought provoking - not really; serious definitely not. Please peruse this site with chips and a large pinch of salt.
So if you have managed to make it down this far, you must be genuinely interested in the man behind the silly and pretentious signature at the top of the page. So here it is…
I’m 24, and live in the wild west of London, with my lovely wife Rebecca. In just a year of marriage we’ve extended our family to total 15 (admittedly, 13 of these are fish). I work for Dare Digital, an interactive marketing agency, as a Producer. Following a brief stint on the Woolworths account, keeping an eye on Wooly and Worth, I’m now working on the Sony audio account working on a variety of audio related projects including the Walkman Project.
Life for me began in the Shire. I’m a Gloucester lad, born and bred; from a 6-man family which once resided in Tuffley, suburbanshire. My younger brothers were lucky enough to have me develop various training schools for them, including sword fighting and weapons training (obviously with cap guns). I also taught them a wide variety of martial arts including Karate and Judo from an assortment of self help books. Steve-fun is now being a geographer at Swansea Uni and spending far too much time travelling around ostensibly to test soils. Joe, the youngest also known as ‘Fogal Genius’ spends a lot of time on mmmputers. My older sister Abi, (who you’ll probably know from The Times), is a community physiotherapist working in London town. Abi has always given the impression of being well behaved which unfortunately meant that conversely, I gave the impression of being naughty. I probably was.
My education began at the much lauded Treetops Nursery, where I was quickly identified as being particularly mal-coordinated. My primary career started at Harewood but I soon found myself in an exciting experiment in home schooling by my parents, Jonathan and Sarah who later went on to launch, School of the Lion.
A little later, I landed at St Peters R.C. High School where I had a lot of fun and somehow managed to get a few A Levels. After taking a gap year working for Dstl in Strategic Analysis as a web developer, I realised that computer science was probably too ambitious, as I couldn’t do the maths.
In the summer of 2002 I became an undergraduate of Politics and International Relations at Sussex University in Brighton. Three years later, after writing a few contentious essays, I discovered I had graduated. Along the way, I’d also spent a semester in Hong Kong where I unintentionally had picked up a Canadian girlfriend.
One thing led to another and a year or so after Rebecca moved to England, I’d been married not just once (in Canada) but also in England (for good measure). As it happens, it was even to the same wife. We began our married life honeymooning in Mexico but returned to Blighty to Londinium where, after a lengthy search, we found a place of our own.
