1. I have quite a short temper on occasion.
2. The person I've been told I look like more often than any other is John Corbett, late of Northern Exposure and Sex And The City. That or Matthew King from Emmerdale, and once Gerard Depardieu by a friend of my mum's. I was not pleased.
3. For my ninth birthday my dad took me and two friends to HMS Victory. Then we went back to my house and had hotdogs, which was very avant garde in 1974.
4. I once went out with a girl who was the daughter of the ambassador to Qatar. I went out to stay in the British Embassy there in the summer of 84. We were waited on hand and foot. But for the week I was there we ate from the same roast turkey every day. Cold turkey, turkey curry, roast turkey soap, turky Milanese, etc. I went off turkey for quite some time.
5. One of the best gigs I've ever been to was Joan Armatrading at the Southampton Gaumont in 1985. It was genuinely moving. The support band Cook Da Books, were booed off. The last gig I went to was Crosby, Stills and Nash last year. Very disappointing lack of hits, and far too much from Stephen Stills' new solo album, which absolutely no one was interested in hearing.
6. When I was 11 my parents were minutes away from splitting up. Not that it was at all unusual in those days for parents to split. I was in a minority in my class at school of those whose parents were still together. To this day I have never asked my parents why they were so close to going their separate ways. Even lying in bed with a pillow over my h ead as they endlessly rowed gave me no clues. I'm not sure I want to know.
7. I had glandulary fever aged 18. I was off school for six weeks and couldn't drink for six months. I'm sure I never really recovered. Everytime I hear the song Wishful Thinking by China Crisis it reminds me of that time.
8. I have a cat called Ingrid who I love more than life itself. Needless to say she's very spoilt.
9. Things I love: The sound of train doors slamming, picking burrs out of dogs' coats, the smell of vanilla, roaring log fires, slate grey skies, thunderstorms, snow.
10. I can't remember any words to any songs post 1990. I could sing you 1982, and have threatened to do so. It takes me about three years to learn the words to any song now, and even then I'm not word perfect unless it's on a permanent loop. Things don't go in like they used, do they?
3 comments:
Well, I can't watch Emmerdale without thinking you and Matthew King could be brothers. My osteopath looks more like John Corbett. The only celebrities I have ever been compared to are Susan Tully, and a woman who said 'You look like that girl from The Darling Buds of May'. I thought she meant Catherine Zeta Jones; she meant Pam Ferris. I was mortified. Still, I was a bit fatter then...
STOP PRESS!! I've just seen a man like you playing an advisor on a LearnDirect advert! One more for the list.
I tell you what misery is; when someone says you look like Fred Gee/Phil Collins/Penfold off of Danger Mouse/Dara O'Briain/Mr Incredible from The Incredibles.
Anyway, another excellent post. My life seems dull by comparison.
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