draliman on life

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If you were a colour, what would you choose to be?
Some sort of blue. Because I like blue. I wouldn’t want to be a colour I don’t like. That would be rubbish.

What one piece of advice would you give your younger self?
I wouldn’t. If I gave my younger self advice, I would change something, likely never be in a position to give my younger self advice in the first place, so everything would change back to the way it was, so I would give my younger self advice, change something…

You see where this is going, don’t you? Yes. The END OF THE UNIVERSE 😮

What was the best piece of advice you were ever given?
Huh, no idea. I don’t listen to advice 😉

If you needed advice on a matter, who would you ask (friend, family, professional etc)
It completely depends on what I needed advice about. I hear that ChatGPT fellow is quite knowledgeable…

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If you were offered “The Full English” what would you expect?
The moment I read this question my mouth started watering…

Fried or scrambled egg, sausage, bacon, black pudding, mushrooms and/or baked beans, grilled tomatoes, hash browns and/or fried bread and of course a mug of tea to wash it down! And probably some toast on the side.

How do you like your toast (with butter, jam, marmalade etc) ?
Lightly browned with butter.

How do you prefer your eggs?
Either hard boiled and cooled or fried.

If you have a boiled egg, do you like to dunk ‘soldiers’?
I rarely have boiled eggs, but I’d tend to eat the egg and soldiers separately.

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Can you remember your first wage packet? Was it cash, a cheque or paid directly into your bank account?
I don’t explicitly remember it. I assume back in those days it was a cheque. For our younger readers, “cheques” were pieces of paper that you had to tramp down to the bank to deposit. Nobody except for my Mum has written a cheque in decades.

For our younger readers, a “bank” was a place in town for getting and depositing money. It’s now called a “phone app”.

Do you prefer to shop with cash or card?
Always card. It’s just so easy to tap your card on the machine. Though I’m suddenly out of date again, most people I see in the village shop use their phone. I do very occasionally but it’s a hassle finding the right app.

Do you know the price of half a dozen eggs?
Anywhere between £2 and £3 depending on free range-ness etc. I can get 6 eggs for £1.50 from the monthly village market.

Have you ever kept chickens?
No! I’ve eaten a lot of chickens, though.

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What did you have for lunch yesterday?
A cheese, piccalilli and tomato roll. Lunch is not my main meal.

Did you have a dessert, and if so, what was it?
Yes, if a chocolate digestive counts as “dessert”. I usually have a banana as well but I ran out 😦

Do you have a sweet tooth?
Yes, to a certain extent.

I read recently that a leading manufacturer has reduced the amount of cocoa in their chocolate biscuits, and it is now referred to as chocolate flavoured. Would you still buy such a product knowing that the chocolate actually isn’t.
It’s a huge brand and very well-known biscuits too! I’m not a fan of “substitute”. One wonders what it is. New! Improved! Now with at least 90% MonoTriPhosphateHydroAlkaSodiumGlutogen!

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Who/what is your favourite Muppet?
I’m going with Animal. Nobody drums quite like Animal.

Do you enjoy animated movies?
I don’t watch a lot of them. Though I’ve seen little bits of Moana and liked what I saw so I am planning on watching the whole thing at some point.

Have you seen any animated movies remade as Live Action?
I can’t even think of any. Ask me the same question about films and video games (in either direction)…

Can you remember the last animated movie you watched (with or without kids present)
It was Zootropolis (“Zootopia” in America).

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The clocks go back at the end of October here in the UK. Does your country do the same?
Yes, because I’m that country too 🙂

Do you enjoy Halloween?
I have to remember to buy some sweets because I usually get a couple of groups of greedy kiddies round. But apart from that I don’t do anything. So it’s not too bad, though I hate that I go on high alert every time I hear people walking past outside chattering excitedly…

Dare I ask if you are preparing for Christmas? If you do not celebrate it in your country, do you have any December traditions?
The only thing I’m preparing to do is order the food, as you have to get in early and since it’s all locally sourced (it’s not a supermarket) it’s all top quality and I don’t want to miss out.

Are you likely to have snow anytime soon?
I’m not likely to have snow at all. Snow in Cornwall is sparse and usually confined to a few square miles so it’s the luck of the draw. When driving into work the other morning, though, I did see an amber temperature warning briefly appear on the car’s dashboard. So it briefly dropped below 5 degrees (it goes red below 0C).

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If you could be a flower or a plant, what would you be and why?
I’d be a bag of self-raising, because I can’t spell.

Do you believe in magic?
I believe that some things which we might think of as magic might one day be possible, as per Arthur C Clarke’s Third Law: “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Do you believe in Karma?
No. If someone does something mean, it’s up to you to seek them out and knacker them yourself.

Do you live in a community spirited neighbourhood?
I would describe it as “semi-community spirited.”

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Do you like having your photograph taken?
No, not at all. I’m always the face hidden behind the hand, or a blur as I swiftly turn away.

Did you have a school photograph taken every year?
Yes, at least during secondary school (that’s ages 12-ish to 16-ish).

Do you take photographs using a phone or stand alone camera?
Usually with my phone as it’s always on me, but if I’m going somewhere special out and about I sometimes take my proper camera.

Are you any good at taking photographs?
Not really. I get some good-ish ones but I usually mess up the composition and get too much sky or whatever. On my proper camera, I also don’t know how to use the white balance properly when it’s very bright.

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What colour was your school uniform (if you had one)?
There was no uniform at my Primary school (it’s more usual these days) so it was often shorts and sandals with a little leather satchel.

At Secondary school it was black shoes, grey trousers, grey or white shirt, branded grey jumper, school-colours tie and (optional) black branded blazer.

But why tell you when I can show you? Here I am! Presumably aged around 11 or 12.

When working, did you have to wear a uniform or dress colour code?
Nope. Only very occasionally when I was working a particular hall of residence at university and there was a big conference coming in, I had to be “smart”. And when I had my summer job at the county council’s computer department I had to do full shirt and tie. But since then, it’s trainers, jeans and t-shirt/jumper.

What is your favourite colour to wear?
Blue, black and grey.

What colour would you never wear unless there was no alternative?
Anything too bright.

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Do you revisit or reblog some of your earlier posts?
Not really. I rarely look at old posts and have never reblogged.

Do you have a favourite post/posts?
Maybe some of the flash fictions I wrote back in the day.

How long have you been blogging?
According to that month picker thingy, since July 2011.

Do you have another blog elsewhere?
No, no other blogs anywhere. I have an Instagram account but don’t post photos to it much.