Tagged: seven things I love

Kate asked me to do this meme. The trouble with it is that I am putting down what I think I love, which means that they are probably the things I like, and don't necessarily love. And what gets put down first will be assumed to be my greatest love (sorry, greatest like); which again I issue a disclaimer against and here state that these are not in any carefully worked out order!

Seven things I love:

1. Parkin - this is heaven!

2. Owning even more books than I have at the moment ... Notice the double rows of books in the first photo.

Relevant quote: "I don't do poverty". (In mitigation, I have started getting things second hand via Amazon.)

3. The Blessed Sacrament Procession and afternoon Adoration in Lourdes - when in Lourdes nothing is allowed to make me miss this!

4. My companion on holidays, museum visits etc (and see disclaimer above)

5. Being single ... oh, alright, what I really mean is having a whole flat to myself ... and, most of the time (but see no.4 above), being able to do what I want .... Relevant quote: "I don't do obedience".

6. Spaghetti Carbonara ..I don't usually need to look at the menu in an Italian restaurant.

7. Plenary indulgences - see 1, 2, 5 and 6 above.

A meme I was tagged for

If you are reading this and want to be tagged, please consider yourself tagged!

What was I doing 10 years ago?
Teaching physics at a sixth form college.
(Eleven years ago was a bit more interesting - I was a parliamentary candidate in the 1997 General Election that brought new Labour to power - now that was an interesting exercise!)

Five things on my to do list today?
Mark my year 13 books.
Mark my year 12 books.
Meeting with a headteacher at a school.
Meeting between union representatives and the local authority.
Remember to bring home a metre rule and some string from school tomorrow (to measure up my living room and hall way - awkward shape, hence the string - for new carpets)

Snacks I enjoy

1. Mars bar
2. Biscuits
3. Parkin - the one cake I do bake myself
4. Mars bar (full size)
5. Mars bar (King size)

Things I would do if I were a billionaire
I don't think that what I would do and what I should do would be the same ...
I could see myself putting the money in the bank, so I could live off the interest, and then doing what I wanted ... perhaps finishing off the PhD I started ....

Five jobs that I have done
Teaching
(and as a student) ...
hop picking
mushroom farming
Christmas post
assisting in a book shop
a month of engineering training at the Royal School of Military Engineering, Chatham

Three of my bad habits
leaving things to the last minute
staying up late when I don't need to
I haven't written a letter in years

Five places I have lived
Bangkok
Kerkrade
Chester
Fleetwood
Streatham Hill