QotD: My 10 Things
What are 10 things you've done that other people probably haven't?
Submitted by Janette.
I've a nasty feeling these will all have been done by someone else, and probably with more elan, but here goes.
- I did a newspaper interview and photo shoot whilst sitting on the wing of a Hawker Hunter fighter plane. At the age of three.
- I have come downstairs for breakfast and had to chase wild grey seals out of the house before I could get to the kitchen.
- I've done a live radio programme about stag beetles and their associated folklore.
- I had a bit-part in a Japanese wildlife documentary. (Admittedly there must be lots of Japanese people in this position but it's probably less common among my fellow Englishmen).
I've been shot at in Britain and Europe.Following an all-too-true comment from Brock this needs changing. So... I once ended up with a three foot long black bird attached to my nose by it's beak. This followed an intense chase round my bedroom during which we ended up under the bed. I should probably point out here that I was trying to get the bloody thing out of the house, nothing more! Following a brief struggle I managed to throw it out of the window but I had a scarred nose and eyelid for several weeks afterwards. This caused much mirth amongst those asking after the damage (particularly school groups I was dealing with at the time), not least because the bird was a Shag. Violent shag nearly costs Aston his eye did the rounds for way WAY too long.- I lost a road race with an electric milk float. To be fair I was on a very old tractor and it was up hill.
- I once fell off a cliff into the North Sea whilst checking a mooring rope was securely fastened. It wasn't. Happily my auto-inflating lifejacket went off shortly after I managed to get back out of the water.
- I have played football by Air Sea Rescue helicopter searchlight.
- I forced entry into a building site with a film crew and a six-man police escort to investigate an alleged wildlife crime.
- Sorry, that's classified.
Comments
Obviously, I've done 10, but. You know. We can't go into too much detail, can we?
5. There are indeed mate. Good point.
9. We got there in time to stop it happening. No arrests, no bother, anti climax.
10. Indeed not.