27 Going on 50... (Part 2)

- I look utterly daft in baseball caps.

- I’d rather be comfortable than fashionable.

- Drinking myself half to death has no appeal to me (but drinking does – I’d just rather hold on to what’s left of my dignity occasionally).

- I would rather get the stopping train than the fast, because I’ll have more time to read.

- I prefer fountain pens to biros. (I don’t know whether that makes me old or “uncool”, but its certainly unusual. Apparently.)

- Leather wingback chairs are one of the most comfortable things in the world. Unless you’re wearing shorts. In which case, you are a moron to go anywhere vaguely NEAR leather furniture.

- I baulk at the price of a cup of tea or coffee. (But I still buy one)

- I am rubbish at all but the simplest of video games (I’m not bad at one of the Spongebob Squarepants ones, but that’s it. Seriously. Even football games have to be on the easy levels for me to win. And that makes it boring because I win 8-0 and its not a challenge).

- I get up far too early every morning. (OK, so that’s for work and to look after Luke, but its still true enough)

- I am reluctant to queue at bus stops. (That’s not true, but I’ve made my point, I think…)

- I do not understand text speak. Sorry – I dun undrstnd txt spk. I’m sure they teach about vowels in schools still. Yes, you heard me, vwls.

- I don’t have the first idea why people think that going out for a drink in Tracksuit bottoms is a good idea. They may be comfortable, and they go with the baggy t-shirt and baseball cap you’re wearing - but they make you look like you’ve just got up, and they’ll soak up anything you spill…

- No matter how ashamed I am of this, as its not really me… I actually tutted at someone recently.

- The time I go to bed is an important piece of information to me.

- I am fussy about the type of tea I drink.

- I don’t find Jackass remotely funny. In fact, if they get hurt, I sometimes catch myself thinking, “That’ll teach them a lesson” or “That should knock some sense into them”.

- And I am usually slightly disappointed to realise that it hasn't knocked some sense into them. They're still there. Maiming themselves. Please, someone hold my sides, I may fall apart.

- R ’n’ B music to me, is what became rock ’n’ roll. Don’t see Beyonce in Blue Suede Shoes. Impostor.

- I still remember watching John Barnes score for England versus Brazil in 1984 (albeit vaguely)…

- I was one of the people who helped Chesney Hawkes get his one and only chart hit.

- I have boxes of Cassette singles.

- I used to read Look-in and Smash Hits (when it was "good").