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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
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Pete Ashton
I’m interested in your “uncle” experience and how you feel now, after a bit of distance and time has passed since your few days with Isobel and Spike. Something/s specific I’d like to know is stuff around the fact that you have opened a wee window on that world, their world. So, how are they doing? How’s your sister? Will you be doing it again sometime soon? What did you learn from the experience?
We routinely assume that doing chilcare is a life enhancing thing, that everyone ‘grows’ from it in some way. Myself I have some doubts about this. It’s about as mind numbing as any routine factory job most of the time.
When did (or will) you consider yourself to be a “grown-up”?
What was the happiest time of your life? The one time that stands head and shoulders above the rest. The period that you could live on a constant loop.
Those are good. Howabout some non-autobio things? Like “what do you think of X?”
X.
Any opinion?
Was it (for some value of it) better (for some value of better) when you were younger (for some value of younger)?
I should, as ever, have been clearer about this. I have the sort of mind that can take an idea and run with it, jumping to all sorts of different areas that tend to have nothing to do with the original idea. So anything you throw at me I can probably work with. Kinda like word association.
The problem, if you can call it that, I’m having is narrowing it down from infinity. That’s what I want from you lot.
And they say verbosity is a waste of time…
Do you think Kylie Minogue looks like a horse?
Do you think it was a good idea to make the Magic Roundabout into a film?
When you get out of the shower, which part of your body do you dry first?
Have you ever watched a costume drama? If you have, which one is your favourite?
And if you feel like ranting about not getting Lord of the Rings, that would be absolutely splendid.
Marv gets it. ;)
Hurrah for Marv :)
My what do you think of X:
- sameyness in shops, they way people dress, the cityscape, anything samey. Hmm ?
- gubbins. i appreciate gubbins both as a notion and as an actual collection of uhm, stuff.. you?
- dereliction, like this house in Moseley for example.
Oh and by the way, Marv? Kylie doesn’t look like a horse but this bloke does
What headline would you most like to see on the front pages of tomorrow’s papers?
That bloke does look like Kylie/ a horse.
Thanks for all of these. I shall make use of them when the next block commeth. I’m particularly daunted by Dan’s “What was the happiest time of your life?” which could well open some floodgates…
You wanted some questions:
Is Dance Music the New Stalinism?
Is it time to wage Jihad against Bratz Dolls?