Clearly I haven’t written a blog post for a while for various personal reasons.
And while my blog will not drift into total disrepair, I will probably be limiting my updates to as and when, rather than regular.
Apologies if my wittering was really that entertaining that you feel lost without it, but that’s the way it is, I’m afraid.
I was tagged by Tamzen for this one and it tickled my fancy early in the morning, so I’m going to go for it.
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.
1. What was I doing 10 years ago?
I really had to think about this one – given that I switched jobs every couple of years, it’s not that surprising. I was working for a publishing company who no longer exist called Two-Can on a kids newspaper supplement called Young Telegraph for the Telegraph newspaper that also no longer exists.
I was living in St Albans in a small two-bedroomed terraced house with my ex-wife and things were, generally, OK – although I was earning a pittance.
2. What are 5 things on my to-do list today?
a) Go and see Sex & The City tonight!
b) Buy some lovely organic pork chops for tomorrow night’s dinner
c) Call the bank
d) Email my sister
e) Catch up on last night’s football on the BBC iPlayer
3. Snacks I enjoy…
A crisp red apple, Mars or Snickers, peanuts, cheese on toast
4. Things I would do if I were a billionaire…
Move to live on the coast, set up my own organic food shop,
5. Places I have lived…
Chatham, Kent; Orpington, Kent; Oxted, Surrey; Sheffield; St Albans; London (mainly south)
6. Jobs I have had…
Sunday paper round, Sales and other assorted horticultural tasks in Knights Garden Centre, Conference and Editorial assistant at Horizon House, Sub-editor, Writer, Editor and various other assorted job titles at other magazine companies who have changed name or no longer exist, Production Editor and Features Editor at Emap, Freelance journalist, and now online bod first at AOL and now at goodtoknow.
7. Bloggers I am tagging who I will enjoy getting to know better…
Hmm, not sure how many other of my friends read this. Clair (although I’m sure you’re not that fussed about doing this), Dale, Cliff, Wendy maybe…
Apologies if I’m waaaay behind the curve on this one, but thanks to David Hepworth on this week’s Word Magazine podcast for drawing my attention to the fantastic blog Stuff White People Like.
Basically taking the right royal piss out of white middle class Americans (but very, very relevant to us Brits, as well), it alights on subjects such as: White Problems: their children drink wine?, having black friends and (very pertinent this one) marathons.
Very, very funny and very, very accurate!
