A New Year's gift from Microsoft for those returning to work after the break…
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Here's a meme that I found buried amongst Meg's Christmas posts. Get active, folks.
Four jobs you've had in your life:
- Glazer’s Assistant in an optical company. I wafted pairs of spectacles through a bed of tiny heated glass beads until the plastic softened & then inserted lenses into them. All day.
- A tentative attempt at making enough a week playing a bass guitar to be able to claim that I was a professional musician.
- Laundry worker in a mental hospital. (There’s a post or two in this brief period of my life. The institution was a relic from Victorian times. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest depicted a model of rational & enlightened medical practice in comparison.)
- Teacher
Four movies you could watch over and over:
- If, directed by Lindsay Anderson.
- Brief Encounter, directed by David Lean.
- Some Like It Hot, directed by Billy Wilder.
- The Grapes Of Wrath, directed by John Ford.
Four places you've lived:
- Hockenden Cottages, Swanley, Kent. My first 6 months – rural seclusion along a lane serving farms & orchards.
- Norbiton Avenue, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. From the age of 3 to 18 – comfortable middle class suburbia in the heart of the ‘Thames Delta’, from which emerged the Stones, The Yardbirds & the ‘60s blues boom.
- Fullers Road, Rowledge, Surrey. For 17 years – a large bungalow in a prosperous Surrey village. Hearth & home to Lindsay & Zoe. Rural life once more, this time in the manicured Tory heartlands.
- Lawns Close, Great Offley, Herts. Small & plain, but home again.
Four TV shows you love to watch:
- Eastenders.
- University Challenge.
- Bleak House.
- Casanova.
Four places you've been on vacation:
- La Croix-Valmer, La Cote d’Azur, France. (My parents’ home for 12 years.)
- The Ural Mountains, Western Siberia. (Four times, immediately before & directly after perestroika.)
- New York City. (During the snows-drifting New Year of 2001.)
- Ros Rua, Cashel, Connemara, Co. Galway. (An idyllic summer holiday in an isolated cottage on Bertraghboy Bay.)
Four websites you visit daily:
- This one.
- BBC Online.
- Google.
- The blogs of my Salon compadres + several of the blogs listed on my sidebar. (A small digression from the protocol here.)
Four of your favorite foods:
- Chili Con Carne.
- Chicken Biriani.
- Provencal Cassoulet.
- A St Ives Cornish pastie.
Four places you'd rather be:
- See vacation locations & add Gurnard’s Head, near Zennor, Penryth, Cornwall.
Four albums you can't live without:
- Discreet Music by Brian Eno.
- The Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach, played by Glenn Gould.
- Cello Concerto In E Minor Op.85 by Edward Elgar, played by Jacqueline du Pre.
- Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan.
8:35:37 PM 
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