#childoftheages

Many thanks to iheartheartgallifrey for tagging me!! (And no, nobody has tagged me in this before :D )

4 Names That People Call Me: • BMG • Bas • Den • Mum

4 Jobs I Have Held: • shop assistant in a newsagents • office clerk at The Kennel Club  • teacher • personal tutor

4 Movies I’ve Watched More Than Once: • The Matrix • Muppets Christmas Carol • Lady and the Tramp • Pride & Prejudice (even the b&w version)

4 Books I’d Recommend: • Beautiful Chaos by Gary Russell • Mrs Fry’s Diary by Mrs Stephen Fry • The Brentford Trilogy – The Antipope by Robert Rankin • The Blackwell Dictionary of Neuropsychology by Beaumont, Kenealy and Rogers

4 Places I’ve Lived: • London Borough of Barking and Dagenham • London Borough of Havering • Brentwood • Basildon

4 Things I don’t eat: • Butter beans • Marrow • Custard tarts • Boiled mince and potatoes

4 TV Shows I Watch: • Homes Under the Hammer (but I can give it up any time I want… honest!)  • The Graham Norton Show  • Travel Man: 48 Hours In • QI

4 Four Things I’m Looking Forward to This Year: • My son graduating with a degree • Properly moving out of this house • Exploring village life • My eldest son and fiancée deciding when his wedding will be so that I can start planning, rather than work on a vague ‘this time next year’

4 Things I’m Saying: • “What’s it doing now?!!!” • “Let me answer you!” often said to my mobile phone  • “I haven’t taken my tablets.” • I was told by my son to put: "Not tonight, I’ve got a headache, David.” I laughed uproariously

4 People I’m Tagging to Do This Next (you don’t have to):

Awwww, thank you so much, childoftheages, for asking me this; because an awful lot of things make me happy.

For instance:

being a personal tutor brings me so much happiness it almost makes me breathless to think about it. Probably part of that reaction is due to the fact that it all might be ending very soon. 

being able to go and see the River Thames whenever I like. 

I live by a large park, so whenever urban life seems too much, within 5 minutes I can be walking along the bank of a lake and watching the ducks. 

I am always deeply thrilled when birds come into my back garden, because a combination of a neighbour getting 4 kittens and a family of magpies moving into one of our trees has frightened off all the birdlife we used to get. Today I saw a robin!!