The 26 questions meme, from nearly everyone

[wellinghall]

1. How do you define your nationality/heritage (e.g. English, British, American, Southern, British Asian or whatever other word/phrase suits)?

English (not British, although technically I'm about one-eighth Scottish)

2. If you were being sent to a desert island and could choose between an unlimited supply of books and an unlimited supply of writing materials, which would you take with you, and why?

Books. I won't even take the cop-out answer from almost everyone else, that books give you (a) writing paper and (b) the knowledge of how to make writing materials.

3. Would you rather lose your hearing or your sight?

Hearing. I can't imagine a world without books to read.

4. What is the earliest major news event you can remember?

Petrol reaching 73p a gallon, in ?1973, as reported on John Craven's Newsround (as it was then). Telling my Dad, and him saying that he wouldn't be surprised if it reached £1 a gallon.

5. Do you have any phobias?

Two many people. Needles.

6. Which five people (living, dead, real, imaginary) would you invite to a dinner party?

Living
David Gower, Brian May, Patrick Moore, Rory Underwood, Nicole Kidman

Dead
JRR Tolkien, Grace Kelly, Beorhtnoth, James Stewart, Alfred Hitchcock

Fictional
Faramir, Richard Sharpe, Ian Vorpatril, Gawain, Galahad Threepwood

7. If you had to place yourself on the political spectrum in terms of
centre/extreme left/right, with appropriate modifiers and a get-out clause
for anarchists, what would you say?

Slightly right of centre

8. What's the best place you've ever visited?

Orkney

9. What was the moment in your life when you were most nervous (that
ended up having a good outcome)?

When Creatrix was ten minutes late for our wedding

10. What would you like your Patronus to be? Why?

A dog

11. DW question: which is YOUR Doctor?

Jon Pertwee is the only Doctor :-)

12. Who's the most famous person you've ever met? What happened?

"Met to get an autograph from"? David Gower, Sir Alec Guinness

"Knew"? Tim Munton

13. Which book would you most like to have written? Why?

A fantasy novel about a very large house, which I read in proof - can't rememebr the title.

14. Which instrument would you most like to be a virtuoso on?

The bagpipes.

15. Have you ever used a Brutal Honesty meme to be mean about somebody?

No - what's one of them?

16. What's your favourite food?

Sirloin steak (well done), roast pheasant (ditto), barbecued trout, blackberry and apple crumble, oysters (but not in that order!)

17. And your favourite alcoholic drink?

Best bitter, an aged Beaujolais cru, single cask malt whisky.

18. Do you believe in love at first sight?

No (but yes to strong attraction).

19. Which film would you most like to have directed?

The ultimate haunted house movie.

20. Which sport would you most like to win an Olympic gold medal in?

Hmm, I don't think either cricket or footbow are Olympic sports, so that would have to leave Rugby sevens.

21. If you could put yourself as any person/type of person in any place in any period of history, who/what/when/where would you be, and why?

King Alfred's court - but only if I could have modern medical care etc.

22. What's your favourite piece of religious/spiritually-inspired art, music
or writing? (Interpret as you will)

Stow church, near Lincoln.

23. Tell me about 3 journals on your flist that you find particularly
interesting (either for style or content), regardless of whether I've got
them friended or not.

na_lon, narahttbbs, rustica?

24. What's your favourite piece of clothing that you own, and where did you
get it?

My bright Duchamp tie?

25. Which places would you most like to visit?

Greenland, Newfoundland, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga.

26. Tell me something else about yourself.

My mum wanted me to become a doctor.

Comments

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Why 26?

2. Books. I don't write for pleasure much unless it is TO people, which it wouldn't be alone on a desert island. And the "cop-outs" are very sensible points.

3. Hearing. Music can still be felt (I believe - I've met a deaf musician), I could still do silly dancing to it without banging into people, and I wouldn't like life without seeing the sunset, the ocean, art, and reading, either. And I like being able to drive myself to where I want to go.

11. DW question: which is YOUR Doctor?

Has to be Tom Baker. Although I like CE and DT too, and didn't think PD & CB were too bad either?

12. Who's the most famous person you've ever met?

Evelyn Glennie, Roy Castle, Ted Nasmith, William Hague & Wayne Sleep (just about)...might be a few more, I forget. (It's not the sort of thing that concerns me much).

14. Which instrument would you most like to be a virtuoso on?

The violin.

20. Which sport would you most like to win an Olympic gold medal in?

Gymnastics, riding, modern pentathlon, ice skating, women's decathlon (when they get around to including it), wouldn't really mind though, one Olympic medal is as good as the next.

21. If you could put yourself as any person/type of person in any place in any period of history, who/what/when/where would you be, and why?

Too much choice.

26. Tell me something else about yourself.

I wanted to be a doctor. For a while. Twice. But not now, or not much.

Stow

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Oooh- good taste. I'm afraid I haven't been there for years now.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I feel a dinner party with both Tolkien and Beorhtnoth would be fascinating, but rather high-risk....