Because I'm so awkward, I've decided to do G*N*D's tag as a meme.
WHAT WERE YOU DOING 10 YEARS AGO?
Recovering from my divorce, enjoying my new surname.
SONGS TO WHICH YOU KNOW ALL THE LYRICS?
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chillis
Killing me Softly - Roberta Flack
Rotterdam - Beautiful South
Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
Send in the Clowns - ?
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Please Forgive Me - David Grey
Loads of Chants courtesy of the Norwich Chant Collective
FIVE THINGS YOU WOULD DO IF YOU BECAME A MILLIONAIRE
Pay off my mortgage
Travel
Shop
Buy a house with 4 bedrooms, a garden, a sun room, a big kitchen with a dishwasher
Do more voluntary work
FIVE BAD HABITS
Untidy
Hate financial paperwork
Procrastination
Low boredom threshold
Low bullshit tolerance
FIVE THINGS YOU LIKE DOING
Writing (I include blogging in this)
Reading
Socialising
Creative Stuff
Cuddling
FIVE THINGS YOU'LL NEVER WEAR AGAIN
Leggings
Platforms
Hippy Skirts
Mini Skirts
Cat suits
FIVE FAVOURITE TOYS
Camera
Computer
Mobile Phone
MP3 Player
DvD Player
Feel free to copy, paste and let me know your results.
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Love the Under the bridge, classic.
ReplyDeleteI think Red Hot Chillis are stunning.
ReplyDeleteWHAT WERE YOU DOING 10 YEARS AGO?
ReplyDeleteRecovering from the shock of being 43 (in hindsight a superb age to be)...more importantly celebrating my youngest set of twins eighth birthday...
FIVE SONGS TO WHICH YOU KNOW ALL THE LYRICS?...only when I'm sober:-
Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
I am a Rock - Simon and Garfunkel
(oh so delicate and oh so much the age and the period)
Hunting Tigers out in India - Bonzo Dog Band (so funny)
Debora - T Rex (so downright weird)
When somebody (thinks you're wonderful) - Fats Waller (absolutely bloody wonderful, both lyrically and stride piano-wise)
FIVE THINGS YOU WOULD DO IF YOU BECAME A MILLIONAIRE.
Pay off not only my own mortgage/debts but my next door neighbours too...
buy stamps and postal history...big time...(a harmless if somewhat anoracky hobby)...
Give the house I live in right now a well deserved facelift/touch up/renovation (it deserves better of me)...
Make a substantial charity donation to the Sally Anne - I've done all the voluntary work I care to do, but would like to to do something to pay back the people who helped grandad in the trenches during World War l (we have LONG memories in my family)
Write...
FIVE BAD HABITS
Being right so often
Like you, hating financial paperwork
Occasional excessive celebration (aka binge-drinking once in a while - but don't we all...)
Sarcasm (very often, very frequent and very accurate!)
Onanism (it's relatively harmless but oh so soul-less too)
FIVE THINGS YOU LIKE DOING
Reading
Poetry (like Dobyns it's long gone but I miss it)
Lovemaking (done properly it's another world)
Puzzles
Writing (a kind of would-be plea)
FIVE THINGS YOU'LL NEVER WEAR AGAIN
Ben Sherman shirts
Flared trousers
Tank tops
WWll Great Coat (well I was a mixed-up youth...)
Afghan goat
FIVE FAVOURITE TOYS
Computer
Digital Camera
SLR camera
DVD/MP3 player
Portable CD player (oh god I can listen to Vaughan Williams on the bus)
Pocket Calculator (You youngsters really have no idea what it was like without ....)
Oh and yes, I think the Red Hot Chillis can (sometimes) be stunning too...