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Friday Five: Hair!

Haven’t done a Friday Five for ages, mainly because the topics chosen each week haven’t interested me. But I’ll do this week’s, if only because it’s easy!

1. What type of hair do you have? (Thin, Normal, Thick, Frizzy, etc.)
Thick and slightly wiry and slightly wavy. There’s a self-portrait form a month or so ago here, so you can judge for yourself.

2.What color is your hair currently?
Naturally grey (white at the front; not so grey at the back). When very young I must have been very fair (and my hair was dead straight) but I went mid-brown as I got older and got a (natural) wave in my teens. I started going grey fairly young, and it doesn’t bother me at all, I actually quite like it.

3. What colors have you dyed/highlighted your hair?
None; ever.

4. If you could dye your hair any color, what would it be?
I’ve often thought about going completely grey. Or of course I could go lime green. But in all honesty I don’t see the point and can’t be bothered. Men with their hair dyed to hide the grey always look too uniform a colour so it stands out so.

5. What is your hair’s length?
Short. I actually went to the barber this morning so it is now a nicely tidy 3cm or so all over. It stays that way, except that I don’t get it cut often enough, but by the time I’ve been 5 weeks without a haircut it’s annoying me. Even as a student in the early 70s I never grew my hair for any longer than a term — and that was only bone idleness!

[Brought to you courtesy of Friday Five.]

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Reflection of a Window

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Reflection of a Window, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 20/52 (2008 week 28).

I think it is also time that I did another 13 things list, mainly for the Flickr “Thirteen Things” group, so here are …

13 Thinks I Believe

  1. There is no supernatural deity.
  2. All Christians (indeed all theists) are actually Devil-worshippers.
  3. Evolution is the only testable explanation we have for life as we know it.
  4. There is life elsewhere in the cosmos; but we’d better not assume what it looks like.
  5. All life does not have to be based on water and/or carbon.
  6. The scientific method works well until scientists get preconceived ideas or stop testing their (all too frequent) assumptions.
  7. Time, like space, progresses at a variable rate.
  8. Religion has done more harm than good in the world, however religion has also been responsible for much of the great art in the world.
  9. We should all be taught much more about sex and our bodies and this should be discussed openly; this would make us a lot more relaxed and able to talk about such things with each other, our children and medics – which has to be good for everyone’s health.
  10. Freedom of speech is sacrosanct. You are entitled to believe, and say, anything you wish. But I do not have to listen to or agree with you.
  11. Nudity and sex are both natural but do not necessarily go hand-in-hand.
  12. There are more things in heaven and earth than we understand.
  13. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Friday Five: Drink

We’ve not done a Friday Five for a long time, so here’s this week’s …

1. What drink wakes you up best in the morning?
Tea. It just has to be a pint mug of tea. Strong tea, with very little milk — you have to be able to trot a mouse on it! 🙂

2. During the day, what do you drink to keep going?
Mostly tea and Diet Coke. Sometimes fruit juice.

3. Do you drink the recommended 8 glasses of water per day? Why/why not?
No. Why not? ‘Cos I drink plenty of other liquid (usually at least 4 pints of tea a day, without anything else) and I don’t like plain water — well neither would you if you had to suffer London’s recycled liquid concrete.

4. What are the ingredients of your favorite mixed drink? (Doesn’t have to be alcoholic!)
It has to be Gin and Tonic!

5. Are you a coffee drinker? How do you take your coffee, if so?
I hardly ever drink coffee these days, and haven’t for 6 or 7 years. I used to like on coffee in the office, but a dowser & healer I knew worked out that coffee wasn’t good for me (except possibly in homeopathic quantities) so I stopped drinking it. (And no he wasn’t anti-coffee as many of these people are; asked him and he actually dowsed it there and then.) These days I drink coffee probably about once a month — occasionally I fancy a coffee (has to be strong, like the tea) and I’m almost always left disappointed.

[Brought to you courtesy of Friday Five.]

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Full Frontal Mirror Tiles


Full Frontal Mirror Tiles, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 16/52 (2008 week 24).

Yes it’s horrible, and I’m seriously over-weight … but not as much as I was; I’ve lost 28kg (almost 4.5 stone) since October. That’s not fast, but it is fast enough considering I am diabetic and while controlling calories also have to be careful to keep my blood glucose stable. Actually losing the weight has helped a lot with my blood sugar levels and my blood pressure, so although it isn’t easy it is worth doing; I do feel lots better for it. But I really need to get rid of at least that much again if I possibly can.

Oh and yes, the tile effect is a shameless abuse of Photoshop – just to save the worst of the blushes of the innocent. Being nude, anywhere, anytime, bothers me not at all ‘cos I was brought up as a nudist! But I know it does bother others, so out of respect for them there is nothing here that you wouldn’t see in a swimming pool.