Its my Birthday so here's a 100 things about me you didn't know about me and you didn't know you wanted to know about me

Hello

Its my birthday today March 4th. What a good day and I would like to take this opportunity to thank my mum and dad for taking time out to do the stuff that made my existence on this Planet possible.

I know I share my birthday will many other famous people and that many world events happened on this auspicious day you can look at them here and here but they don't really matter because its MY birthday and that means you've all got to read what I wrote about ME - right!

So here they are:


100 things about me

1. Its my birthday today
2. I’m 51
3. I’m a cold stone Pisces
4. I was born in Birmingham U.K.
5. I have two sisters
6. One I don’t speak to
7. I am told that I am related to Alexander Selkirk (aka Robinson Crusoe)
8. I like the Ocean
9. I like the colours blue
10. and green
11. I like travelling
12. I have visited 3 continents
13. I have visited 21 countries
14. I am a Batchelor of Science with Honours in Sociology
15. I am a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology
16. I am a Reverend, being an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church, Modesto, California
17. I am not a Christian
18. But I believe in the message and morals of Christianity
19. I have a six year old daughter – Matilda
20. I have been married 3 times
21. divorced twice
22. I am shoe size 9
23. I like reading
24. I like writing
25. I don’t like maths
26. I don’t eat meat
27. I eat all my vegetables
28. I once was, briefly, a soldier
29. I have had an AK47 stuck in my stomach by a soldier in Botswana
30. I didn’t shit myself!
31. I have seen hippopotamus swimming in the Zambezi river
32. I have climbed all three highest peaks in the United Kingdom
33. I have walked the Southern way – over 100 miles in 5 days
34. I am short-sighted
35. I believe that the Revolution is imminent
36. I am Krishna conscious
37. I have broken my left collar bone twice
38. I support the England Rugby team for better and worse
39. Yuri Gagarin is my hero
40. I like shirts
41. I believe in re-incarnation
42. I failed all my exams at secondary school
43. I don’t know any of my old school friends
44. My first wife slept with my best friend
45. I am an ebayer
46. I am a surfer
47. I once owned a Triumph Trophy motorbike
48. and a Lambretta 175
49. I can’t play a single musical instrument
50. I like music
51. My favourite film is ‘Some Like it Hot’
52. Or maybe ‘Calamity Jane’
53. I listen to Christy Moore
54. and Nanci Griffiths
55. I want an Ipod
56. I enjoy the works of Leonard Cohen – no really
57. I am currently reading the Da Vinci Code (great)
58. I like Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia Ice Cream
59. I drink Ukrainian Vodka
60. I am a republican
61. I am also a socialist
62. I have driven a truck through Africa
63. I Love my wife
64. I write poetry (sometimes)
65. I am cynical about counselling
66. I have had counselling
67. I have stopped voting
68. I was an elected member of the Labour Party
69. I would like to retire – soon
70. I like sunsets
71. I like being on the beach
72. I have few regrets
73. Except not taking up the opportunity of a threesome when it was offered once in Holland (I was married – I have morals)
74. I lived in Holland for 3 years
75. I smoked a lot of dope (notice past tense)
76. I detest fox hunting and cruelty to animals
77. I detest right wing fanatics in all their forms
78. I detest fundamentalism in all its forms
79. My main ambition is to live until I die
80. I drive too much
81. I like driving
82. I hate driving
83. I want to write a novel
84. I have met some famous people
85. But I can’t remember who
86. My favourite cartoon is Road Runner
87. My cholesterol count is above average
88. So is my waist size
89. I am happy
90. I like my job (most days)
91. I need a holiday
92. I failed my cycling proficiency badge
93. I was a Boy Scout
94. Wittgenstein is my favourite philosopher
95. Baudrillard is my favourite post-modernist
96. Marx is my favourite social theorist
97. I’m told I look like Ozzy Osbourne – I don’t
98. David Hockney is my favourite artist
99. I don’t have a lucky number
100. Happy Birthday me!