Category: Bloganuary 2023
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What was my dream job when a child?
There were four jobs I wanted to do. One nature denied me, one I abandoned, one I am doing and one I can stil do. They were Police Officer, Naval Architect, Nurse and writer. At five foot and five inches I was too short to be a Police Officer plus bad eyesight. So when height…
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Who is my favourite author and why?
It must be Terry Pratchard. I have read all his Disc World novels. I have read the children and young people books from Disc World. The reason is he creates an alternative world with some steam punk technology, strong characters and a good laugh. Fantasy and humour, what more would one want.
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What irritates me about the home I live in.
This is a tricky one. How do you seperate the home from the people in it. When I start to think of what irritates me, what I think about is the behaviour of others. In what they do or do not do. This is not the answer to the prompt. Sitting in the armchair to…
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Why do the colours grey and brown describe my personality?
I am a white man in a black family. I have a personality that can vary from day to day. From moment to moment, but not in an unpredictable way. Not requiring people to tread carefully as if they are walking on eggshells. My wife would not walk carefully on those eggshells. She would smash…
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My favourite meal to eat.
I love family celebrations. The table is laid with plates and dishes of gorgeous food. There is Jamaican curry goat, Sea Bream or Salmon, There will be Plantain, Sweet Potatoe, Carrots. I used to eat lots of rice and peas, nowdays it is Macaroni and Cheese. I love mushroom, Five beans in tomato sauce I…
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No happy day, but lots of happy moments.
To have a happiest day of my life is to imply that other days are crappy. For me I have happy events and places. Spending time with my son, is a happy time. He has a better regard for me than I ever had did for my father. That was a life goal forme. I…
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What memory is brought back by a smell?
This is weird because I hate this smell. I hate Brussel Sprouts. So every Christmas as a child I would choose the chair at the opposite end of the table to the turin Brussel Sprouts. Forgeting that the turin will be passed down the table ending up at my end of the table. Yet childhood…
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What fear have I conquered?
I won a competition in The Times or Sunday Times. This was in the 1980s when married to my first wife. The prize was a free psychological assessment. The result of the assessment was being told I had a high level of paranoia, yet I had not developed Schizophrenia. One Christmas I tore the sack…
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What is my preferred mode of travel?
Anything on rails. I love trains, subways and trams. In my youth I had holidays on Eurail passes. On them I went as far as Morocco, or as far as Greece. I recall the S-Bahn of Berlin run by the East German Government and the U-Bahn of Berlin run by the West German Government. The…
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What would I do with a billion US dollars?
The tithe of that is 100 million us dollars. Therefore I would set up a charity to dispense that 100 million to the church. A donation of that amount to one entity of the church would distort things. funded by 1 million. 1 Million for myself to clear my debts. 1 million to provide me…
Wisdom of David Shenfield 