So twenty questions making up my birthday meme.
- Something you want to do again next year? Survive.
- What’s a bad habit you picked up this year? Sloth.
- What are you excited about for next year? Nothing. I don’t do excitement.
- If you could send a message to yourself back on your birthday last year, what would it be?
The seat belt sign is on. Hold on tight. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. - Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? If so, describe one.
Serge Tyde. Harbourmaster of a small SW England town. French extraction (probably via his maternal grandmother). Very suntanned; always to be seen in shorts, and bare-chested in warm weather. Partial to a glass of red.
Also living in the same town is Sir Chiltern Waternut, retired diplomat. - Do you feel your age? Physically: always. Mentally: seldom (apart from depression).
- Did your appearance change in anyway? Yes, hair cut even shorter than before.
- What was your favourite article of clothing this year? Post a pic if possible? The Emperor’s new suit. A picture would definitely frighten the horses.
- What was one nice thing you did for someone else? Online grocery shopping & delivery for Jean.
- What was one nice thing you did for yourself? Good food.
- Did anything happen that you were sure would change you as a person but it really didn’t? No.
- Did anything happen to you that you were sure wouldn’t change you as a person but it did? No.
- Pick three people who share your birthday and share what you know about them.
- Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858-1947). American-English businessman who founded Selfridge’s Department Store.
- Arthur Scargill (born 1938). English miner’s union leader who led the miners strikes in opposition to Prime Ministers Edward Heath (in 1972, 1974) and Margaret Thatcher (in 1984-85). Communist; activist; politician.
- Brian Moore (born 1962). English rugby player who gained 64 caps as hooker.
- Is anyone listed as being born on the same day as you (ie. the same year)? If so, what do you know about them?
- Charlie Huhn. American rock singer and guitarist.
- Willie Maddren. English footballer and manager. Died 2000.
- Philip Tartaglia. Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow.
- List three people who died on your birthday and tell us what you know about them.
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). English novelist and poet. Like most of the writers of “classics” I was turned off his work at school.
- Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). Swiss sculptor and painter. Famous for his sculptures of extremely tall and slender figures.
- Edmund Hillary (1919-2008). New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
- List three notable events that took place on your birthday.
- 1569: First recorded lottery in England.
- 1787: William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two of the moons of Uranus.
- 1922: First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
- Tell us about a holiday that falls on your birthday.
Excepting a national day in Albania (which I have been unable to verify) the only holiday I can find on 11 January is the Japanese Kagami biraki which marks the end of the New Year holiday and the return to work. Although not a public holiday, it is widely celebrated. - Three Fears. No money. Being widowed. Dementia.
- Three things I love. Sex. Warm sun. Quiet.
- If you could live anywhere in the world, under any circumstances whatsoever, where would you go and what would your house be like?
A beach, somewhere warm and sunny all year. An unpretentious, spacious, but not over large, modern house with light décor, and big windows and/or patio doors. It needs to be close to all amenities. There’ll be several cats and a large well stocked koi pond, set in a mature garden which is secluded enough to allow nudity. I’ll need a gardener and a housekeeper.
Toodle Pip!