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The Authentic Eclectic
Ten Things You Might Not Know About Me
See a bandwagon and jump on it!
OK, so I’m usually pretty upfront about myself and what I think, but there may be a couple of things I’ve forgotten, or not had occasion to mention. So, here we go.
I’ve been in combat
It was in the South Atlantic in 1982. It was messy, chaotic and scary. I was wounded, though not too badly, but we completed our mission. That’s all I want to say about that.
I was charged with assault
Some years ago, during my first depressive breakdown. Some lout called my wife a ‘fat cow’ and I went for him. He was half my age and twice my size, but he ran like a rat and the next day a police officer turned up at my door to arrest me. It went to Magstrates’ Court, but by that time I had a doctors’ note. I was bound over for twelve months.
I can’t abide cinnamon
There is a particularly unpleasant patent medicine called ‘Beechams’ Powders’. It’s basically aspirin and caffeine in a soluble powder. Whenever I felt ill as a kid, my mother would make me take some, and within the hour I’d throw up. The stuff is flavoured with cinnamon, so now every time I even smell cinnamon I feel nauseous.
