Meme about jobs and holidays and stuff.

[f4f3]

I'm sure I did this before, but it seems to have disappeared...

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE
Repo Man
Hospital Cleaner
Shop Assistant (C&A)
Management Consultant

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER
Casablanca
High Society
Bladerunner
The Princess Bride

FOUR CITIES / TOWNS YOU'VE LIVED IN
Glasgow
Newcastle
London
Ardrishaig

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE(ed) TO WATCH
Frasier
Hill Street Blues
QI
Buffy/Angel

FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION
Florida (yes, all of it)
Blackpool
Ardnamurchan
Morocco (not all of it)

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY
Live Journal
Guardian Unlimited
Free Internet Chess Server
The (Glasgow) Herald

FOUR OF YOUR FAVOURITE FOODS
Steak
Scallops
Lanark Blue
Fois Gras

FOUR PLACES YOU'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
India
New York
Ardnamurchan
London

Comments

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Ardrishaig = a city / town in whose reality?

Why isn't Essouaira on your places you'd rather be?

Foie gras is evil.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Ardrishaig is only a few miles from Scotland's original capital, and so I'm sure it counts as a suburb of Dunaad, and therefore was a town somewhen. Otherwise, in bizarro world.

I was only allowed to do for places, or Essouaira would have been in there - I'm on an Indian kick at the moment, though.

Foie gras is indeed evil, but it tastes very good, a claim that can probably be made for all sorts of evil things.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I'm also looking for your postal address, for reasons which will become apparent. eMail me, please?

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

And it is a great little place - though it is always on the way to somewhere (Skipness or Islay).

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Not for me, I get to spend as long at the cottage as I can get up there - which isn't often enough.


The sea-food shack at Skipness is one of my favourite places to eat in the world.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I'll let them know - it is run by friends of mine. I haven't been there in the summer for some years, so believe it or not I haven't eaten at the Seafood Cabin. It is a huge success, apparently.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Yup, it can be standing room only on some days. Skipness is a nice wee place to walk the dog and moan about the fact that the ferry to Arran has been cancelled again (we watched it steam past one day, diverted to Tarbet by high winds). And the food is excellent.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I should have put "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" under movies. But I can't think what I would take out. Bladerunner maybe?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Foie Gras can only properly be eaten while wearing fur, preferably from an animal one has trapped oneself.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Raw?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

No I think cooked is OK. But it has to be over an open fire.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Excellent, because then I could put the scallops on sticks and toast them like marshmallows...

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Not sure that Ardnamurchan would be too great just now: autumn or springtime would suit it best.

And a little known fact (at least south of the border): Ardnamurchan is the most westerly point on the British mainland. Always good for winning a pub quiz.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Yup - I have friends with a croft just where the road to the lighthouse at Ardnamurchan point splits from the road to Sanna Bay.

I'd have been in the wee hotel just down the road from them with a few malts and the coal fire going...

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I visited the lighthouse last summer; it was a gorgeous day. We climbed the light, and the view was wonderful. They had a problem with thier foghorn, though: despite the sun, it thought there was fog, and wanted to let everyone know. God, it was loud.

Have you read "Stargazing", a memoir of a lighthouse keeper in Scotland?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

The friends I mentioned supplemented the crofting with part-time light house keeping - it makes a great place for stories on a summer night (not anymore, though - the light is fully automated, and the cottages are holiday lets now).

Haven't read Stargazing, but I can recommend "Night Falls on Ardnamurchan".

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

Hmm - I didn't have you as a Buffy/Angel kindaguy...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I have hidden shallows...

Nah, it took me a while to get into them, but I was won over by about series three of Buffy.

Go Scoobies!

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

In no way are Buffy or Angel shallow: they work at many, many different levels.

I started watching Buffy after the TV reviewer in the Independent said it was the best thing on TV by far - round about series 3.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

It's me that's shallow, not Buffy!

Definitely no more shallow than any of my other pop-culture guilty pleasures, like comics, SF, role-playing and fantasy.

Buffy was, at its peak, the wittiest, most involving, best written piece of TV around - and Angel could be all that with added darkness.