Just about to go on holiday (see sidebar and loathe me insanely). My mind is so occupied with this that I have been unable to come up with a post for today. Here is a meme I have nicked unashamedly off Reluctant Blogger and Rol. I apologise for the paucity of my ideas and will blog fulsomely when I get back...
1) What were you doing 10 years ago?
I was working for Air France. I had IBS and had failed to connect it to the fact that my job was simultaneously tedious and stressful. I loved my colleagues, I loved (LOVED) the cheap/free air travel, but I was definitely heading for the door.
2) Name 5 things on your to-do list today
Get some dinner stuff in on the way home. Pack. Remember to dig out the automatic cat feeder. Find/pack my passport. Don't forget sun-cream this time!
3) Name 5 things you would do if you became a billionaire
Pay off the mortgages of all my friends/family.
Buy all sites that Tesco's/Sainsbury's would consider developing and rent them cheaply to small local businesses.
Endow a school for affordable hit-men.
Replace everything in my wardrobe with the same thing in cashmere.
Buy Lindisfarne Castle and live in it.
4) Name 5 places you have lived
Montreal, Oxford, Durham, Avignon, London. All, coincidentally, cities on rivers. Couldn't live anywhere dry now.
5) Name 5 of your bad habits
Nail-biting.
Smoking.
Not knowing that that really WAS one glass too many.
Laziness.
Being a truly crap (lazy, sporadic, uncommunicative) correspondent.
6) name 5 jobs you've had
Hotel maid (Avignon)
Barmaid (everywhere)
Hearing-aid mender (London)
Concorde charter agent (London)
Bookseller (best move I ever made).
7) How did you come up with the title of your blog?
I fel it sums up, in one sentence, the general tone of la vie chez Fishwife.
9 comments:
There were supposed to be 5 bad habits?
Damn, I'll have to think up another 2.
I only assumed 5 as most of the others were 5! Don't feel impelled to make yourself look bad because of a conclusion-leap on my part...
The fact you want to nobble Tesco and Sainsbury's just makes me want to start a collection on your behalf. What a fabulous idea!
Oh yeah I'll donate some of my millions to the anti Tesco/Sainsbury cause as well.
I do think it was only meant to be 3 bad habits - you just got carried away there.
I knew very little about you before this but now I am much wiser. Didn't have you down as a smoker and certainly not an air hostess.
People have lived such interesting lives.
Oh and you have lived in such wonderful places.
Anyway, I expect you are miles away and I am talking to myself. Hope you are having a wonderful time. Weather is beautiful here.
Steve - the thing that made me hate Tescos the most was when they decided to take advantage of the very draconian libel laws Thailand has - they took a journalist to court for "libel" because he had criticised the way they had edged out small local supermarkets in Thailand. This would have meant he would be fined well over £1 million and had a hefty prison sentence, for writing a mildly critical article for which he got paid £16. They truly are the scum of the earth (see article http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article3835610.ece).... wow that was a rant and a half but how DARE they? Large drink to calm down...
RB - Luckily not an air hostess (I am far from level-headed enough and my lipstick application is amateurish at best!) - I was in the Groups dept (orchestras, bands, corporate conferences) and can still remember more or less how to convert cms to inches in order to calculate the size of a non-standard cello/theremin...
I've just realised I've got all your bad habits (although the smoking is quiescent at present, unless the one drink too many one has kicked in). And some on top. I wonder if we are related? Are you descended from the emperor Charlemagne?
BT - Don't know about Charlemagne but descended from Bonnie Annie Laurie and Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine in "Zulu"). Would definitely be proud of Charlemagne though! Wasn't he a redhead too? Don't feel bad about the smoking - I smoke Gauloises because EVERYBODY I know decides after a drink or two that they quite fancy a cigarette, and this way it's the poor unfortunate with the Silk Cut who ends up cigarette-less at the end of the night.
Alas I think Tesco and Sainsburys have already amassed a frighteningly large 'landbank' of various 'sites' they intend to develop in the next 10-20 years.
Perhaps a job for your rookie hit men...?
Maybe I could train up rookie arsonists as well.. although irritatingly Tescburys are probably insured to the elbows..
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