draliman on life

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Do you have a bestie (ie. best friend)
Yes, I’ve known him since baby-hood.

Do you have a lot of friends?
No. I have a few acquaintances.

Has a friend ever let you down to the extent that the friendship has died?
No.

Are you more likely to confide in a friend rather than family?
I’m not likely to confide in anybody.

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Do you have any Keepsakes?
I have a number of bits and bobs scattered around the place, mostly things like keyrings, little bowls from various places, mugs and the like.

We all have memories, what is your quirkiest?
Hmm, not sure if it’s “quirky” exactly but once when I was little I was hitting one of those plastic practice golf balls in the front garden and after taking an almighty swing the club slipped out of my hand and smashed through our neighbour’s top bedroom window. The practice ball was located in the back garden, I’d hit it clean over the house.

Hilarious.

Who is your oldest living relative?
My Mum I guess, she’s 88.

Who is your youngest?
No idea. I have distant cousins, children of children of my cousin.

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Can you swim?
Yes, though I haven’t for a good long while.

If so, do you prefer a pool, river or the sea? If not, will you paddle or dip your toes?
A pool – I like to know what’s below me. Plus these days, with all the “emergency” sewage releases…

Did you have outings to the beach as a child?
Yes, lots. We’re surrounded by beaches.

Do you like candyfloss?
I can’t remember. I’m sure I must have had some but I’ve only ever seen it at fun fairs and I haven’t been to one of those since I was little.

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What do you miss most, if anything, about your school days?
Absolutely nothing. What a horrific multi-year mandatory experience that was.

Did your school have its own sports field or swimming pool?
Both my primary and secondary schools had sports pitches. That was back in the days before schools started selling fields off to pay for books and shit.

What was your favourite day of the school week?
None of them.

Did you have one teacher for a variety of subjects, or separate teachers for each?
One teacher during primary school, one teacher per subject for secondary school.

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If you are feeling below par and a bit down, how do you lift your spirits?
I’ll watch some sort of comedy programme. Any old thing will do!

Do you believe that laughter is the best medicine?
It is quite beneficial. But if you’ve got a bad cough, cough medicine is the best medicine.

What makes you smile?
Kittens 🙂 Or how about ducklings? I saw them in the river in Truro when I walked back from work last week.

Do you have a ‘comfort’ food?
Yes. Food.

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What is/has been your favourite job/occupation?
Probably what I’m doing now – software engineering. Though the job I had at university was pretty fun, looking after halls of residence, looking after conference delegates in the summer and so on.

Is there a job you would never consider doing?
Quite a few I imagine. I had to do an aptitude test when I was at school in a careers lesson and it came out as “pig farmer”. I wouldn’t want to do that. I don’t think their test was properly calibrated…

Did your family own a business and expect you to join the ranks when you got older?
No.

Did/do you have a career requiring qualifications or did you learn on the job and work your way up?
Only the jobs in physics needed qualifications. You’d think my current job would, but they only wanted to see a potential for computer programming, which they determined via a testing process.

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Have you ever wanted to be famous?
Only as a kid. Famous football player and all that.

Have you met any celebrities?
Nope, not a one. I doubt I’d recognise one even if I did. I don’t tend to recognise people I don’t know well out of context. So I suppose if Arnie S. came running down the street shouting “I’ll be back” I’d recognise him.

Has anyone ever asked you for your autograph?
Asked me? Why would anyone ask little old me for my autograph?

Is there a celebrity you wish to have met/meet?
No. There are, but I wouldn’t want to actually meet them. They might disappoint and then that might spoil some of my favourite books/films a bit.

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What frustrates you the most about modern day living?
How much busier it has got everywhere. I don’t know that’s a “frustration” as such, but still.

What was your favourite decade and why?
I don’t know that I have a favourite decade, as such. My best times were at university, but that started in the 80s and finished in the 90s.

What was your ‘best buy’ (for example: house, car, clothes, computer etc)
Probably my house. I managed to arrange it so that when I retire it’s all paid off so I won’t need to pay rent or mortgage out of my pension; It’s a nice little house, too 🙂

Do you have any non medicinal allergies?
I’m slightly allergic to pollen, probably grass pollen. But only in a very small “itchy throat and eyes” way, not in a full scale “threat to life” way.

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Do you have a favourite movie you never tire of watching?
Several. Die Hard (every Christmas Eve), Battle Los Angeles, Aliens, the Star Wars films, The John Wick films, the Resident Evil films, the Underworld films, the list goes on!

Do you have a favourite song or special song as a couple?
Couple? Couple?

How do you relax in the evenings?
TV, video games and reading. Sometimes a walk in the country if it’s nice weather.

Do you celebrate special birthdays or anniversaries?
We celebrate birthdays, but we don’t do anything special for “special” years.

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Have you ever lied about your age?
Not that I recall.

Is there any time in your life you would like to relive?
One or two times. Not go back in time and actually relive though, as that could change my future. I could return to the present and find myself in a completely different timeline 😮

Do you own any antiques?
I don’t think so.

Would you like to know some of the history of places you’ve visited?
I’d like the know the real history of some places, like Tintagel up the North Cornwall coast. Did King Arthur really hold court there? Did he have a round table? Did some woman in a lake really chuck him a magic sword? Or did he sit on a big throne and have people’s heads lopped off for “looking at him funny”?