10 Pointless Facts About Me

Well this all started with David over at Forking Mad back in April 2025. Since then a few others have jumped in, take a look at the Community Echoes at the end of this post.

Now, less than a week before November in the same year, and I have caught up with the questions and decided to give them a go.

  1. Do you floss your teeth?
    Please don’t tell my dentist, but not often enough.
  2. Tea, coffee, or water?
    I grew up in Britain and drank a lot of tea. I then moved to Portland, OR and converted to coffee. In between all of this I had a kidney stone and so water is the most drunk of the three. Stay hydrated.
  3. Footwear preference?
    I live in Hawaii - slippers, aka flip-flops, is the way to go.
  4. Favourite dessert?
    Hhhmm? A difficult one. I’m not sure that I have a favourite? Having said that, back in the day my grandmother’s fruit cake could not be beaten.
  5. The first thing you do when you wake up?
    Variations on doing things on my way to the toilet.
  6. Age you’d like to stick to?
    I’ve been blessed with many different experiences through my life and can think of times that I would like to go back to live them again. I can also think of times that I might have done things differently…with the benefit of hindsight. However, if I had to pick an age I would say where I am now, 62. I feel full with my lived experiences and wisdom that I have picked up along the way. I hope that that continues for more years to come.
  7. How many hats do you own?
    Three baseball caps - all bought for me, two beanies…and my favourite, a white Tilley that would not look out of place in the outfield at Lords.
  8. Describe the last photo you took.
    This one of The Bunker, a small concrete building which sits in a field over looking the Pacific Ocean on the island of Maui, HI. Artists use is sides as a canvas.
  9. Worst TV show recently?
    I once watched a few minutes of Selling Sunset. I don’t know what got into me? Never again!
  10. As a child, what was your aspiration for adulthood? Does this sound corny? My father was a doctor and I wanted to emulate him. That changed in the mid'80s when through a series of circumstances a Commodore PET was sitting on my parents' dining room table. I was hooked!

Community Echos

Here are a few others who responded to David’s original list. It is by no means exhaustive, David’s original post shows that:

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