What’s a movie or book that inspired you to travel?
Well if I honestly had to choose a book that would make me want to head across the pond then it would have to be “The Last of the Mohicans”. Never managed it yet but it is Definitely on my bucket list to visit Fort William Henry and into the great lakes.
The film with Daniel Dat Lewis, definitely helped me want to visit more.
Maybe one day…
I love “Carry on up the Khyber” and have held that gate against the imaginary Burpa Horde.
Interesting Question… The easy answer is yes… It is one thing I think everyone should be.
There are a couple of sayings that I know of and use:
“You are never too old to learn.”
“Everyday is a school day.” In other words every day we learn something or hear something new.
So yes I am a lifelong learner and fully intend to keep on being one…I mean today I learned that my Latte I made for my wife was actually a Cappuccino and my thing I made using the remainder of the coffee and milk was actually the Latte. I rest my case!
So I suppose when I Pop my clogs and head off onto the black sands then I will learn if there is an afterwards… I just won’t be able to let you know.
What’s the first book you ever finished and still remember to this day?
Well if you ignore the phonics ones and things like Binkle and Flip the bad bunnies.
Peter, Jane and Pat the dog.
And of course:
I suppose I would go for The Hobbit.
Still occasionally read it most years.
Looking at Binkle and Flip there it does have a bit of an air of Mr Bunsy has an Adventure. (If you know Terry Pratchett books you will know which one it comes from).
When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out?
Well I am getting to the age where I no longer bounce like I used to but as I often joke “I sometimes wonder how I am still alive!”
As a younger individual I did many daft things that could have finished me off.
But I suppose one of the biggest ‘risks’ was to move from Northumberland to the Shetland Islands. My wife and I and our 16 week old made the change. I started work on 17th April 2006. Basically 20 years ago.
Was it easy, no, did I struggle, yes. I moved from a school of 40 odd staff to me and a part time admin. From a class of 34 to a whole school of 12.
I basically lost my family and friends, my hobbies -reenactment and my social life again based around the reenactment world. The other huge miss was my in work support network. That was a massive hit, I remember one day having a bit of a wobble and saying I wanted to go home. Our house hadn’t sold yet, so my wife said we could easily return, by home I meant my old school.
So to answer the question…when was the last time I took a risk, April 17th 2006. I suppose that was the biggest risk we ever took. We made a vow that day that no matter what was thrown at us we would remain.
Was it hard? Yes! Was it worth it? Again Yes! Did we make the right choice in staying here? Most definitely.
This is the view from my front gate…
There are other benefits to being at 60 degrees North.
Well I reckon the best ever Road trip was when I was in the Polish lancer reenactment group.
We drove from Northumberland in the UK to Ciechanow in Poland. Was an epic road trip via Berlin and Warsaw on the way out and Leipzig and somewhere else on the way back (was too tired to remember where… It had Windmills and tulips though).
In fact my musket ball came from Leipzig
Here I am in CiechanowMounted pics
So in the first here I am (nearest the camera) after trying out a couple of mounts before the big day, technically we should be wearing our stable trousers. But we evidently aren’t.
So in the second in full dress uniform and so is the horse. I haven’t got the lance in this photo.
Here I am twirling my lance…
This was another road trip to Boulogne and that was a bloody nightmare.
