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What is your favorite restaurant? As much as I would like to, I just cannot afford to eat out. My budget is tight enough without even take-aways. I am the nouveau poor, a pensioner who didn’t have a well paid job. I am lucky as I have a military pension, but even that is squeaking […]

Where do you see yourself in 10 years? In 10 years I will be 81. So tricky question. Hopefully I’ll still be breathing! I’ve got too much to do! My book Camino is on offer today 99cents/ pence. https://amzn.eu/d/ehjwFX1 That’s the link directly to the book in Amazon. 99cents? I’m doing a lot of sales

What’s the most fun way to exercise? This has to be the most fun way to exercise! Recipe: 1 dog (any size) I lead (any length) Method: Take dog outside, attach lead and start walking. Time: 30mins to 3 hours. Dog is done when it stops playing. This may take several hours, depending on model

What animals make the best/worst pets? I’ve not long come in from replacing another feed bin lid where rats have chewed through trying to get in. I have collapsed stone walls where rats burrow in to nest. I have floorboards chewed away and actually flushed one back down the toilet last month. These are not

What job would you do for free? This is my Friday morning job. No pay, but lots of licks and the chance to work with some of the most highly trained dogs in the country! It takes around 2 years to train a dog and handler to do SAR. It’s not easy, lives can depend

How would you improve your community? Here are some of our village doing the litter picking last summer. We are always asking for volunteers as it’s always the same old faces that turn up! Talking and sharing things like this binds us together. Rural life can be isolating and little things like litter patrol, speed

What’s something most people don’t understand? I’ve lost count of the number of people who have approached me over the years, saying how much they enjoy my playing as they don’t like jazz. I’m playing jazz as they mention this ( between tunes). Too many people believe jazz to be an abstract tuneless noise. Yes,

How has technology changed your job? Going to the Post Office to collect my pension? Not any more! It’s paid into my bank account so no staggering to the PO every week. Amazing! Humping bags of groceries down the street in winter? No more! Online shopping! Technology has helped in a lot of ways. Sadly

What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had? Er, if I tell my six readers will it still be a secret? Yes I have secret powers but the world is not ready for them yet…..as a musician I have many secret powers, one being the ability to make my saxophone squeak

What is your favorite type of weather? In Britain there are three types of weather. Rain yesterday . Rained today. Rain tomorrow. As a nation we have dissolved. I said good morning to someone yesterday and they quacked back at me. My toes have webs growing between them and all the colour has washed out