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sir_guinglain Apr. 9th, 2005 01:35 pm)
sir_guinglain Apr. 9th, 2005 01:35 pm)1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
"folds about his ankles."
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
The top of my bookshelf.
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
The ongoing royal wedding coverage on BBC 1 and BBC News 24.
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is:
13:20
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
13:39.
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
Dermot Murnaghan and Sophie Raworth announcing the arrival of Rowan Atkinson and others at St George's Chapel for the Charles and Camilla blessing.
7: When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
Yesterday morning, when I left for work.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
The Outpost Gallifrey Doctor Who News Page.
9: What are you wearing?
A worn blue shirt, battered brown jeans, grey socks, black leather slippers. An outfit to wear while painting and filling in holes in the wall after the recent heating upgrade.
10: Did you dream last night?
Not that I recall.
11: When did you last laugh?
Probably at work yesterday in reponse to the TLS letters page, but I can't precisely remember.
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
Lots of deep orange paint, largely obscured by overflowing bookshelves.
13: Seen anything weird lately?:
The unearthly grey-purple-blue twilight sky last night, as I left Homebase to find my car gathering snow at a rate that I hadn't anticipated when I entered the shop on a cold but sunny evening fifteen minutes or so before.
14. What do you think of this quiz?
It's an inspired way of getting the recipient (who hasn't updated his LJ in ages) to share a few recent impressions of their life with other people.
15: What is the last film you saw?:
'The Aviator', at the cinema a few weeks ago; I haven't watched any film on television straight through for a while.
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?:
An investment plan which would give me a sensible income! Then, perhaps a house in North Oxford.
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know.
I went to a pub with an exclusively vegetarian menu on Thursday evening, with Cellis. I had a very sweet tomato tart; Cellis had a sour tasting mushroom pie. Nonetheless, I'd like to go there again as there were lots of other options on the menu.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
End poverty.
19: Do you like to dance?
I like the 'traditional' dances as practised by SocA and now SocT - but I'm not sure about dancing in other environments.
20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?
He's not a power-crasy nutcase, but a very astute politician. I was in favour of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in principle but it was clear from the outset that the US underestimated the difficulties there would be in ruling Iraq and I was unhappy about the intervention being undertaken as if to destroy the United Nations rather than to uphold it. The episode also revealed the limitations of Tony Blair as a diplomatist.
21a: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
I'd like to include Elizabeth somewhere, after my grandmother.
21b: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
I'd always imagined I'd have dynastic names - Edward because I'm the first male of my family for three generations not to have Edward somewhere, and it looked like a tradition; John Richard after my businessman great-great-uncle (whose cinema in Horden was the first in the north-east to show 'The Jazz Singer'). But it won't only be my choice, should I have children.
22: Would you ever consider living abroad?
Probably not. I'm very territorial and need to return to the north-east at regular intervals!
*****
1. Total volume of music files on my computer?
Not certain - about five albums' worth.
2. The last CD I bought?
Alex Glasgow: 'Songs of Alex Glasgow 3/Now and Then'.
3.a) Wake Up
Radio 4 Today programme.
3.b) Song playing right now?
None (though 'Immortal, Invisble' was playing on the television just now...)
4. Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me:
I can't think of any that fall into either category - by comparison with other people I don't seem to have a musically developed soul. Thinking about it: 'Mortal City', 'The Christians and the Pagans' and 'The Babysitter's Here' by Dar Williams; 'Dance to thi Daddy' as recorded by Alex Glasgow; and, like Pellegrina, 'Matty Groves' by Fairport Convention from Liege and Lief.
5. Which five people are you passing this baton to and why?
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"folds about his ankles."
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
The top of my bookshelf.
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
The ongoing royal wedding coverage on BBC 1 and BBC News 24.
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is:
13:20
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
13:39.
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
Dermot Murnaghan and Sophie Raworth announcing the arrival of Rowan Atkinson and others at St George's Chapel for the Charles and Camilla blessing.
7: When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
Yesterday morning, when I left for work.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
The Outpost Gallifrey Doctor Who News Page.
9: What are you wearing?
A worn blue shirt, battered brown jeans, grey socks, black leather slippers. An outfit to wear while painting and filling in holes in the wall after the recent heating upgrade.
10: Did you dream last night?
Not that I recall.
11: When did you last laugh?
Probably at work yesterday in reponse to the TLS letters page, but I can't precisely remember.
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
Lots of deep orange paint, largely obscured by overflowing bookshelves.
13: Seen anything weird lately?:
The unearthly grey-purple-blue twilight sky last night, as I left Homebase to find my car gathering snow at a rate that I hadn't anticipated when I entered the shop on a cold but sunny evening fifteen minutes or so before.
14. What do you think of this quiz?
It's an inspired way of getting the recipient (who hasn't updated his LJ in ages) to share a few recent impressions of their life with other people.
15: What is the last film you saw?:
'The Aviator', at the cinema a few weeks ago; I haven't watched any film on television straight through for a while.
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?:
An investment plan which would give me a sensible income! Then, perhaps a house in North Oxford.
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know.
I went to a pub with an exclusively vegetarian menu on Thursday evening, with Cellis. I had a very sweet tomato tart; Cellis had a sour tasting mushroom pie. Nonetheless, I'd like to go there again as there were lots of other options on the menu.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
End poverty.
19: Do you like to dance?
I like the 'traditional' dances as practised by SocA and now SocT - but I'm not sure about dancing in other environments.
20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?
He's not a power-crasy nutcase, but a very astute politician. I was in favour of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in principle but it was clear from the outset that the US underestimated the difficulties there would be in ruling Iraq and I was unhappy about the intervention being undertaken as if to destroy the United Nations rather than to uphold it. The episode also revealed the limitations of Tony Blair as a diplomatist.
21a: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
I'd like to include Elizabeth somewhere, after my grandmother.
21b: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
I'd always imagined I'd have dynastic names - Edward because I'm the first male of my family for three generations not to have Edward somewhere, and it looked like a tradition; John Richard after my businessman great-great-uncle (whose cinema in Horden was the first in the north-east to show 'The Jazz Singer'). But it won't only be my choice, should I have children.
22: Would you ever consider living abroad?
Probably not. I'm very territorial and need to return to the north-east at regular intervals!
*****
1. Total volume of music files on my computer?
Not certain - about five albums' worth.
2. The last CD I bought?
Alex Glasgow: 'Songs of Alex Glasgow 3/Now and Then'.
3.a) Wake Up
Radio 4 Today programme.
3.b) Song playing right now?
None (though 'Immortal, Invisble' was playing on the television just now...)
4. Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me:
I can't think of any that fall into either category - by comparison with other people I don't seem to have a musically developed soul. Thinking about it: 'Mortal City', 'The Christians and the Pagans' and 'The Babysitter's Here' by Dar Williams; 'Dance to thi Daddy' as recorded by Alex Glasgow; and, like Pellegrina, 'Matty Groves' by Fairport Convention from Liege and Lief.
5. Which five people are you passing this baton to and why?
pennypaperbrain, gervase_fen, wonderwelsh and huggyrei have you tried this yet? My reason is curiosity!