David Tebbutt tagged me about 10 days ago, and I’ve been avoiding responding… up to now. This one falls in with the 5 things meme, and is a bit like a virtual cocktail party. You have to admit to 5 things people might not know about you, and tag 5 others. So here goes:
1. I’m one of those sad people who thinks they have a book or two inside them. After the break up of my first marriage I started a novel called Unfinished Business, choosing the title mainly because I knew I would never finish it. I still have a few chapters hiding on a diskette somewhere. The one I hope to do will be called something like The Ordinary Soldier, and will be a semi-fictional account of my father’s exploits as a lance corporal in 1 SAS in the last half of WWII, when he was Paddy Mayne ’s radio operator. Dad’s 82, so I better get on with it.
2. I recently started writing a music Blog, partly because I’m a bit of a music fanatic (rather like the character in in Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity), but also so I could write about times I had in the 70s with a close friend, Steve Thorne, who we lost to bad living and alcohol 16 years ago.
3. I have to wear a chain of office at council meetings. I’m chairman of my local parish council, and protocol means that I have to wear the chain when I’m in the chair. I always feel rather ridiculous when I put it on, but I’m a stickler for tradition.
4. I once went to work for another company for 3 days during a week’s holiday. During an unhappy period at software company A (no names to protect the innocent), I followed up a head-hunter approach. I really wasn’t sure of the new opportunity, but the CEO of company B was one of the best one on one sales people I’d met. He convinced me to take a weeks holiday from company A, so I could join an induction and training course at Company B, believing that after a few days I’d realise what a brilliant outfit they were. After 3 days I decided the opposite, and went back to Company A. A very strange experience all around, which doesn’t appear on my CV.
5. I get obsessive about particular authors I read. When I was a teenager I knew all of the novels of Michael Moorcock so well, I would challenge people to read one sentence at random from any of them, and I’d be able to tell you which book it was. The current obsession is with Patrick O’Brian, slowly working my way through the Aubrey and Maturin novels.
2. I recently started writing a music Blog, partly because I’m a bit of a music fanatic (rather like the character in in Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity), but also so I could write about times I had in the 70s with a close friend, Steve Thorne, who we lost to bad living and alcohol 16 years ago.
3. I have to wear a chain of office at council meetings. I’m chairman of my local parish council, and protocol means that I have to wear the chain when I’m in the chair. I always feel rather ridiculous when I put it on, but I’m a stickler for tradition.
4. I once went to work for another company for 3 days during a week’s holiday. During an unhappy period at software company A (no names to protect the innocent), I followed up a head-hunter approach. I really wasn’t sure of the new opportunity, but the CEO of company B was one of the best one on one sales people I’d met. He convinced me to take a weeks holiday from company A, so I could join an induction and training course at Company B, believing that after a few days I’d realise what a brilliant outfit they were. After 3 days I decided the opposite, and went back to Company A. A very strange experience all around, which doesn’t appear on my CV.
5. I get obsessive about particular authors I read. When I was a teenager I knew all of the novels of Michael Moorcock so well, I would challenge people to read one sentence at random from any of them, and I’d be able to tell you which book it was. The current obsession is with Patrick O’Brian, slowly working my way through the Aubrey and Maturin novels.
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