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How do you take your tea?
Milk, no sugar. This is sufficient description in a civilised country. In other places I might have to specify hot, black, unsweetened, etc. I prefer Assam for day-to-day drinking, and make a pot of Lapsang Souchong to drink black when I want to sit and read or make notes on something.
Favourite outfit?
These days, by what I wear most, it's jeans and a tshirt. For actual looks, I like dull green trousers, a shirt with collar (with some cotton layer under it), a tie, a sweater-vest, and a tweed jacket. That's still my mental image of myself, despite it being more than two years since I wore that with any regularity.
Where are you from?
I am from Ireland, Wexford specifically. As far as I can tell, I have to go back to my great-great-grandparents before I can find anyone who was not born on the island of Ireland. My paternal grandmother's family was from Northern Ireland, but most of the rest seem to have been from Wexford and Wicklow from somewhere around the dawn of time onward.
What country do you want to visit?
I am not as interested in travel as I used to be. I'd like to spend some more time in Copenhagen, maybe, and Edinburgh, but actual travel involves numerous filthy humans, and I'd rather not at the moment.
Where have you travelled?
The United States (New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont); England, Scotland and Wales; France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany (very briefly), the Netherlands, Belgium (even more briefly), Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Bulgaria, Greece, India. I have seen North Africa from a boat off the coast of Spain, and I have seen Russia from the Norwegian border. I think that's it.
Occupation/career aspirations
I've been running my own business for over a year now. That's enough for the moment.
3 facts about my family
1) Most of us have what I call 'extreme object permnanence'; we don't speak for months at a stretch, and then pick up conversations as through we'd just been in the next room.
2) I am recognised as my father's son all over the south-east of the country, and sometimes further afield.
3) My father's end of the family is full of woodworkers.
Favourite book?
In constant flux. Right now, Barbara Hambly's Dog Wizard.
Favourite flower?
Not a frequent consideration for me. I'm sure I've answered this before, but I don't remember what I said. I like apple blossom, and bluebells?
Comfort movie?
John Carter (of Mars)
What's your favourite holiday and why?
Hallowe'en, because it has a pleasing look, and comes without any expectations.
Do you have any allergies?
Mild dust allergy. I was allergic to bee stings in my teens; it has now been more than 25 years since I was stung, so I don't know if that's true anymore. Conversely, I am almost unaffected by wasp stings; that has been tested more recently.
Tell me about your first crush
There were probably a few before the first one that springs to mind, but there are swathes of my pre-mid-teen-years I don't much remember anymore. The one that I do remember was a girl I met in the Gaeltacht when I was about 14. She did not know what to make of me; she didn't dislike me, per se, but even as a teenager suffering from severe testosterone poisoning, I was still much too full-on, intense, letter-writing, fantasy-reading, thinky and weird for her to know how to respond to me. She did accompany me to my Debs (prom, etc.) some years later, and we snuck her actual boyfriend at the time in the back door and he and I traded off dances with her for the latter part of the evening, boggling the hell out of my classmates (not least because they were pretty sure she was completely out of my league; she had dark hair, very blue eyes, what I think is described as a heart-shaped face, and could easily have had a career as a model). We've remained in touch on and off, although since she quit Facebook some years before I did, it's been more off in recent times.
Type out the last text you sent
Actual text messages are few and far between now. The last message I sent in text reads "You have to wonder if they even knew where they were."
Favourite colour(s)?
Green and black.
Where do you feel most at peace?
I feel reasonably at peace in most places. But taking more the spirit of the question than the wording, either when I wake up of my own accord from a nap in daylight, or when I'm at my desk at 3am, I'm not sleepy, and I don't have meetings the following day.
What ride would you pick at an amusement park?
Probably something sedate, like a merry-go-round. Unless they have one of those train-though-a-house-of-horrors things; it's been a very long time since I was on one.
When/where do you normally drink tea?
Afternoon and evening, at my desk or the kitchen table.
Last tea party?
I do not know that I have ever been to a tea party, formally. I have had afternoon tea in a few places, most notably the Ritz in London, which was superb.
Music preference?
Extremely eclectic. In the last few weeks, I've listened to 70s rock, 90s rock/grunge, folk metal, nu-metal, feminist punk, whatever genre Joni Mitchell is, 90s Europop, hardstyle, witch house, bhangra, and some miscellanous bits and pieces I'm at a loss to classify.
What do you order at Starbucks?
I try not to, these days, but something frothy and favoured, because their actual coffee is terrible.
A hobby?
Tabletop Role-playing Games, their writing, execution, and consideration.
3 random facts about myself
1) I can't taste cucumber, celery, bay, or lettuce.
2) I mill through Coke Zero at a somewhat ridiculous rate.
3) I have never had a broken or even fractured bone (knock on wood, etc.)
Milk, no sugar. This is sufficient description in a civilised country. In other places I might have to specify hot, black, unsweetened, etc. I prefer Assam for day-to-day drinking, and make a pot of Lapsang Souchong to drink black when I want to sit and read or make notes on something.
Favourite outfit?
These days, by what I wear most, it's jeans and a tshirt. For actual looks, I like dull green trousers, a shirt with collar (with some cotton layer under it), a tie, a sweater-vest, and a tweed jacket. That's still my mental image of myself, despite it being more than two years since I wore that with any regularity.
Where are you from?
I am from Ireland, Wexford specifically. As far as I can tell, I have to go back to my great-great-grandparents before I can find anyone who was not born on the island of Ireland. My paternal grandmother's family was from Northern Ireland, but most of the rest seem to have been from Wexford and Wicklow from somewhere around the dawn of time onward.
What country do you want to visit?
I am not as interested in travel as I used to be. I'd like to spend some more time in Copenhagen, maybe, and Edinburgh, but actual travel involves numerous filthy humans, and I'd rather not at the moment.
Where have you travelled?
The United States (New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont); England, Scotland and Wales; France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany (very briefly), the Netherlands, Belgium (even more briefly), Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Bulgaria, Greece, India. I have seen North Africa from a boat off the coast of Spain, and I have seen Russia from the Norwegian border. I think that's it.
Occupation/career aspirations
I've been running my own business for over a year now. That's enough for the moment.
3 facts about my family
1) Most of us have what I call 'extreme object permnanence'; we don't speak for months at a stretch, and then pick up conversations as through we'd just been in the next room.
2) I am recognised as my father's son all over the south-east of the country, and sometimes further afield.
3) My father's end of the family is full of woodworkers.
Favourite book?
In constant flux. Right now, Barbara Hambly's Dog Wizard.
Favourite flower?
Not a frequent consideration for me. I'm sure I've answered this before, but I don't remember what I said. I like apple blossom, and bluebells?
Comfort movie?
John Carter (of Mars)
What's your favourite holiday and why?
Hallowe'en, because it has a pleasing look, and comes without any expectations.
Do you have any allergies?
Mild dust allergy. I was allergic to bee stings in my teens; it has now been more than 25 years since I was stung, so I don't know if that's true anymore. Conversely, I am almost unaffected by wasp stings; that has been tested more recently.
Tell me about your first crush
There were probably a few before the first one that springs to mind, but there are swathes of my pre-mid-teen-years I don't much remember anymore. The one that I do remember was a girl I met in the Gaeltacht when I was about 14. She did not know what to make of me; she didn't dislike me, per se, but even as a teenager suffering from severe testosterone poisoning, I was still much too full-on, intense, letter-writing, fantasy-reading, thinky and weird for her to know how to respond to me. She did accompany me to my Debs (prom, etc.) some years later, and we snuck her actual boyfriend at the time in the back door and he and I traded off dances with her for the latter part of the evening, boggling the hell out of my classmates (not least because they were pretty sure she was completely out of my league; she had dark hair, very blue eyes, what I think is described as a heart-shaped face, and could easily have had a career as a model). We've remained in touch on and off, although since she quit Facebook some years before I did, it's been more off in recent times.
Type out the last text you sent
Actual text messages are few and far between now. The last message I sent in text reads "You have to wonder if they even knew where they were."
Favourite colour(s)?
Green and black.
Where do you feel most at peace?
I feel reasonably at peace in most places. But taking more the spirit of the question than the wording, either when I wake up of my own accord from a nap in daylight, or when I'm at my desk at 3am, I'm not sleepy, and I don't have meetings the following day.
What ride would you pick at an amusement park?
Probably something sedate, like a merry-go-round. Unless they have one of those train-though-a-house-of-horrors things; it's been a very long time since I was on one.
When/where do you normally drink tea?
Afternoon and evening, at my desk or the kitchen table.
Last tea party?
I do not know that I have ever been to a tea party, formally. I have had afternoon tea in a few places, most notably the Ritz in London, which was superb.
Music preference?
Extremely eclectic. In the last few weeks, I've listened to 70s rock, 90s rock/grunge, folk metal, nu-metal, feminist punk, whatever genre Joni Mitchell is, 90s Europop, hardstyle, witch house, bhangra, and some miscellanous bits and pieces I'm at a loss to classify.
What do you order at Starbucks?
I try not to, these days, but something frothy and favoured, because their actual coffee is terrible.
A hobby?
Tabletop Role-playing Games, their writing, execution, and consideration.
3 random facts about myself
1) I can't taste cucumber, celery, bay, or lettuce.
2) I mill through Coke Zero at a somewhat ridiculous rate.
3) I have never had a broken or even fractured bone (knock on wood, etc.)