What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times? I am not a fan of the silver screen. I have my favourite films of course; Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings or Old Lace and Arsenic but my two favourite media are books and the radio. Films such as Indiana Jones and …
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Dear Self,
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. As the classical author said ‘the more things change the more they stay the same’. I expect the world of 2078 to be the same but different. In your hundred years of life the world will have changed tremendously and in many respects 1978 is a world away. …
What do you mean… would go?
Where would you go on a shopping spree? We live in an age of consumption and I wonder just how good that is for us. I am not sure it’s healthy for me or my wallet to have 24 hour access to Amazon the largest retainer in the world. I wonder repeatedly about the story …
Austen
What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance? Oh mum and dad what did you do to me giving me a name meaning ‘great’ or ‘magnificent’. I, of course, am neither just a mild mannered normal person who now knows his middle name is an English corruption of the Latin name Augustus! …
I am, myself, a fascinating study
What is the last thing you learned? In my life I have studied a lot and learnt lots of interesting things but I have neglected myself and now find that there is ‘maintenance’ to do on the old machine. As I approach fifty the body will no longer just look after itself and I have …
Why?
What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain. The question I hate to be asked is the question that more people should ask, especially of people like me. It is “Why?” Because it forces you to confront the reasons for something you think, something you just say or something you mindlessly believe. I …
When you think about it, it is completely absurd to imagine we are born at all!
Share one of the best gifts you’ve ever received. The greatest gift is the gift of life. Of the huge number of possible numbers of sperm and eggs and the titanic millions of combinations of genes it is incredible that the combination that has emerged is us. We live on a planet in the Goldilocks …
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When the Nukes start falling, how am I going to blog about it?
What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months? I do not write for a living, yet, but I hope to do so in my dotage, if we last that long. The way the world is going at the moment makes me feel very sad. I was born in the 70s, …
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An old man appears in 1999 and tells a young man how to live his life…
What advice would you give to your teenage self? Let’s be frank, the world of 1999 is very different to the modern age. I got my first mobile phone in 1999, there was no Facebook etc and I think prepackaged sandwiches were a strange novelty. So telling myself to get to grips with the internet …
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What Bores me…
What bores you? I am increasingly thinking that the post enlightenment world is needlessly cut off from myth and majesty. It is a funny feeling but I do wonder if the world is running on empty. It is a feeling that I have had for a long time. When I worked in an open air …