Yep, let T W Brit sound almost sentimental for a post – shock…
Today I received my first invite for Christmas to Dave and Annie’s across the road. This was very nice
of them indeed, but for many reasons I like to spend this day alone – it’s nothing weird and I often need to feel a part of something greater to indulge – as such I work through Christmas day. But do I miss it? Well I guess I do a little.
This last few months have been amazing for me, you see, through this and other mediums, the people I have met and continued to communicate with have, for the most part, been people who at one level or another blown my socks off. These people have been from all walks of life too; Truckers, Journalists, Politicians, Actors, Lawyers (in a good way), even the odd celeb apparently (sorry, it’s an area for which I’m very vague). But the people I have and do speak to on a regular basis is something that has astonished me and I am most grateful.
As such there most certainly are things I miss – as we all do (and not in a sorry for myself way – it’s in a ‘just the way it is’ way).
So, while stagnating down here in Devon, here’s my list of things I miss – as bizarre as they may be and excluding individuals.
- The Peak District
- Owning and using a Land Rover 110 CSW
- My Irish Setter
- The stillness of a summers morning in some remote military training area.
- Arriving in a foreign town and simply not knowing what and where everything thing is, but having to find out quickly.
- Volatile risk in countries where life is so different to the lives we all know so well.
- Stark differences in cultures of those around you and learning the differences.
- The hustle and bustle of London
- I miss shooting a lot!! If I stayed in one place long enough, I guess I’d get a licence, but I never do.
- The silence at dawn in the ‘Empty Quarter’ desert in Saudi Arabia.
- Having a true reason or aim to get up sometimes.
- Fixing impossible problems
- Climbing
- The better side of me.
- An awesome roast dinner
- Air travel, I don’t like it (because I’m not the driver), but it always means I’m doing something cool.
- Seeing myself as clearly as I see others
- Huge Dr Who scarf my grandmother knitted me
- Long hair
- Being able to run 10 miles with weight
- A good Dentist
- Eastnor Castle
- Meeting people without them thinking you either want something or they feel they have to match-make me with a friend of theirs.
- Being sincere, actually I am, but my body language often says the opposite.
- Tax free living
- Ex-Pat lifestyle
So here’s the question to my regular readers, you get 10 things to list that you miss – that cannot be people.
