This is a bit of a strange post, my own personality disasters. It is in response to a list that Gary Simpson posted on his own blog where he listed his own foibles
and hangups. I think this will be quite a liberating experience to lay myself bare on “digital paper” for all to critique. As the accepted fact goes “you never
view yourself the way others do”
1, Being born under the astrological sign of Virgo I am rather prone to displaying strange compulsive behaviour, for example crooked pictures have to be straightened
to the millimetre.
I can also sit down in my lounge watching tv and subconsiously align the various remote controls I have beside me in order of most frequently used.Maybe I´m kidding myself with the Virgo tag, I think it could be a slight case of OCD.
2, I hate with an absolute passion any form of racism. Now this is a real biggy for me. As a few of you know I live on the island of Mallorca, and this place is a real melting pot of different cultures and nationalities. I have been away from England now for seven years and the place I lived was quite rural and Anglo Saxon through and through.
The thing I love about this place is that I have such a diverse range of friends ranging from Czechs, Chileans, Argentinians, Somalians,Germans, Dutch and obviously Spanish, and as is the case with any culture, you find good and bad. What I despise is the way certain sections of society allow themselves to view other cultures than their own with mistrust purely because of a lack of personal interaction.
3. Inanimate Objects whose only reason for manufacture is to p**s me off !!
4. Those days when my senses are heightened, usually my hearing to the point that I can hear a fly farting and it will aggravate the Hell out of me.
5. Being late. Now this just tips me clean over the edge. I would far rather be an hour early for anything than a minute late. The strange thing is though, it doesn´t bother me in the slightest if other people are late turning up to meet me.
6. The way all Microsoft products inform me that I have spelt something wrong when I am, of course, writing in English, not Amglish!
7. I hate with a passion insincerity just for the sake of being nice. It is just so transparent. If ever I say something nice, it is because I mean it.
8. Bad manners. Don´t get me started on this one. My hands tremble just writing that. There is absolutely excuse for bad manners. Call me old fashioned, but a please and a thankyou are words that are so underused in this day and age.
9. One of my big failings when speaking is that I tend not to articulate myself as well as I could, or should. What I mean is, I mumble.
10. I am a bit of a grouch when I first wake up, I have been reliably informed by family to this one, sod em I say =O)
11. Physical Traits. Left leg slightly shorter than the right leg and if I walked in a straight line for long enough, I would complete a full 360 degrees.
and whilst we are on the subject of left legs, I didn´t realise and it wasn´t until my ex-wife pointed out one day, that my toes on my left foot don´t actually
touch the floor. This can lead to some rather bizarre footprints!!
12. Not a very good forgiver.
13. Shy – As I mentioned on Garry Parke´s blog, upon first meeting people I can be a little bit shy, but, once you get to know me you have to take the batteries out to shut me up!!
14. Loyal to my friends and family as the day is long.
15. A bit of a ´dead eye dick´with a shotgun. I have won a few competitions in my time.
16. Good water skiier.
17. Fearless at sea, probably stems from the number of my ancestors who were sailors. My Great Uncle was awarded the DSM, for gallantry whilst clearing underwater ordnance during the D.Day landings.
18. My Mum is fanatical about Family History-Genealogy and has spent the last 25 years, on and off, studying our own lineage. She discovered that my 2xGt.
Grandmother´s cousin Florence Ann Lemon Balcombe married Bram Stoker of Dracula fame and broke the heart of Oscar Wilde who had courted her for two years
previously.We have a copy of a picture of Florence drawn by Oscar, also the copy of a letter he wrote to her on hearing she had married Bram, asking for the
return of a locket that he had given her. Obviously this was all pre coming out of the closet in his pink feather boa !! Also the singer Joss Stone, really named Joscelyn Eve Stoker is descended from Bram also, so she is on our family tree. I feel a bit of a poor relation, but it is interesting to know all these facts.
19. I am a confirmed gadget freak of the first order. If ever finances allow, I would spend a ridiculous amount on gadge.
20. An outdoors nut. when I was in England I just loved to take off to Snowdonia and the Lake District and push myself to the limits climbing. Living on Mallorca is climbing Nirvirna as we have 7 peaks above 3000ft all on an island that measures 60km wide by 40km deep.
21. Music – I like a really eclectic mix. My tastes run from Rachmaninoff through to the Foo Fighters and pretty much every in between. Although I have a real distaste of folk music.
22. The need for more spontaneity in my life. I tend to weigh up the pros and cons of everything all the time, to the nth degree, and frequently miss opportunities along the way by doing this.
23. I have a very caring nature, unless any member of my family is ill. This is a very bizarre statement to make as my first profession was Nursing!
24. My humour ranges from the Three Stooges right through to Monty Python. The one thing that totally cracks me up are the Derek and Clive albums. For those of you who are not aware of these albums, they were Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in top form. Very anarchic, ascerbic and downright irreverent, but Oh. so funny.
25. favourite TV programme, is an automotive programme on English TV by the name of Top Gear, a mixture of humour and petrol fumes.
Well this list of likes and dislikes pretty much sums up who and what I am. I would love to read your comments on the above and see if any of my traits align to your own..
