Tomorrow is the UK general election. Please make sure that you vote if you are eligible. Don't let's default into anything, let's make a positive decision.
If everybody who could vote did vote, that would probably be enough to get the change that we all feel we need.
See you on Friday 7 May, in a changed world?
Wednesday 5 May 2010
Tuesday 26 January 2010
25 things about me.
1. I find that parties are worthless unless there is dancing, Latin beat required.
2. Romance languages, I love them, especially Spanish at the moment.
3. I'm a born for the first time biker, I got my motorcycle licence at age 50.
4. In my dreams George Benson nods appreciatively at my guitar solos.
5. Once I tried to write down what would be a perfect week for me. It was really hard to do.
6. I am so super-proud of my three girls and one boy, but don't let on.
7. Until I was about 21 I was a skinny rake; that's not the case now, sadly.
8. My mind is full of useless detail, but then facts are not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom.
9. If I could live anywhere in the UK it would be in Bristol, in one of those houses that looks onto the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
10. I like ritual, so I make coffee in a complicated way with an espresso machine,
11. It's my intention never to give up developing and printing my own black and white photographs.
12. If there's a god, she's in the details, and in the people.
13. Mies was right, "less is more", but not when it comes to cameras, guitars and books.
14. I strongly prefer natural materials: leather, cotton and wool. I did once have a silk shirt but it was so hard to maintain.
15. I attended (occasionally) a good grammar school but completely wasted the opportunity.
16. I don't have a degree but wish I did.
17. I would love to do a camper van trip around France and Spain.
18. I love Gibraltar and defy anybody to go there and not make friends.
19. On my first ever day at school (September 1954) the teacher told me not to go out at playtime in case I got pushed and fell over. I ignored her and got pushed and fell over.
20. In some situations I am completely without fear, in others I'm an utter jelly. I cannot predict when or explain why either case should be.
21. I've only been sacked from a job once. It was when I was 14 and was delivery boy for an off-licence. I went to London on the back of a friend's scooter and we broke down. I was re-instated the next day.
22. I've only been out of work once, for four weeks in January of 1967.
23. I was 22 before I ever stepped out of England, and that was to Wales. Made up for it since.
24. For me Zagato was the greatest carozzeria. http://www.zagato.it
25. When asked to make a list of 25 things about myself, I can only think of twenty four.
This originally appeared on facebook, in early 2009. I read it again today and was not embarrassed, though you, my reader(s?) might be.
2. Romance languages, I love them, especially Spanish at the moment.
3. I'm a born for the first time biker, I got my motorcycle licence at age 50.
4. In my dreams George Benson nods appreciatively at my guitar solos.
5. Once I tried to write down what would be a perfect week for me. It was really hard to do.
6. I am so super-proud of my three girls and one boy, but don't let on.
7. Until I was about 21 I was a skinny rake; that's not the case now, sadly.
8. My mind is full of useless detail, but then facts are not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom.
9. If I could live anywhere in the UK it would be in Bristol, in one of those houses that looks onto the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
10. I like ritual, so I make coffee in a complicated way with an espresso machine,
11. It's my intention never to give up developing and printing my own black and white photographs.
12. If there's a god, she's in the details, and in the people.
13. Mies was right, "less is more", but not when it comes to cameras, guitars and books.
14. I strongly prefer natural materials: leather, cotton and wool. I did once have a silk shirt but it was so hard to maintain.
15. I attended (occasionally) a good grammar school but completely wasted the opportunity.
16. I don't have a degree but wish I did.
17. I would love to do a camper van trip around France and Spain.
18. I love Gibraltar and defy anybody to go there and not make friends.
19. On my first ever day at school (September 1954) the teacher told me not to go out at playtime in case I got pushed and fell over. I ignored her and got pushed and fell over.
20. In some situations I am completely without fear, in others I'm an utter jelly. I cannot predict when or explain why either case should be.
21. I've only been sacked from a job once. It was when I was 14 and was delivery boy for an off-licence. I went to London on the back of a friend's scooter and we broke down. I was re-instated the next day.
22. I've only been out of work once, for four weeks in January of 1967.
23. I was 22 before I ever stepped out of England, and that was to Wales. Made up for it since.
24. For me Zagato was the greatest carozzeria. http://www.zagato.it
25. When asked to make a list of 25 things about myself, I can only think of twenty four.
This originally appeared on facebook, in early 2009. I read it again today and was not embarrassed, though you, my reader(s?) might be.
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