MY PAST INTERESTS
Fifteen To One
I remember a quiz show I used to like called ‘Fifteen To One’, which ended in December 2003. I used to watch it in 1998 and 1999 and record it. I got back into watching it in 2002 but not for long. I also used to be interested in how many people still had three lives intact at the end of round one. The highest number of people I saw have three lives intact at the end of the first round was 8 which I saw on three occasions and other times, no one had three lives intact at all.
Bohemian Rhapsody
I used to like a song by Queen called ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, and I used to like the silhouette at the beginning of the video, which I first saw on 5th December 1999. I also used to draw silhouettes of the Portland Bill characters in the same pose but saluting and with a green sunset in the background. I do sometimes wonder if you can have a green sunset. I’m not as keen on the song now as I was then but it’s not because I have over listened to it.
Geometric Designs
Every month I used to draw on paper a square with a geometric design inside it and a number in the middle starting at number 1 in January 1999 to number 72 in December 2004 and I used to stick them on my bedroom door at the beginning of every month and as time went on the patterns became more complex. 9 of those designs remain with me, one of which I failed to complete so here are the best 8.
My Past Favourite Films
I remember seeing ‘Chicken Run’, at the pictures when I was 13 in July 2000 with my class on our trip to Letton Hall and I liked it so much that over the rest of 2000 I saw it 4 times in total. The following year I saw ‘Shrek 1’, and I enjoyed it so much that over the Summer of 2001 I saw it 6 times in total. My next favourite film was ‘Finding Nemo’, in 2003, which I saw 3 times. I first saw it on 12th October 2003, then again at my Nan’s house in the same month but I don’t remember the date, and again in December 2003. On 15th July 2004, we went to see ‘Shrek 2’, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as I enjoyed ‘Shrek 1’ as sequels are never as good for me. When we were going up the escalator in the cinema I saw a reference on the wall of an animated film which was ‘Shark Tale’, and it looked very good indeed. Before seeing ‘Shrek 2’, we saw a trailer for the film ‘Shark Tale’, and my mood stayed high during the day. We saw the film on 17th October 2004 and I saw it again with my Nan and Granddad in the same month but I don’t remember the date when I saw it for the second time and this time I felt like twice was enough times to see the same film.
Calendars
I also used to be interested in calendars. In October 2003 when I was staying with my Nan, we were out and I saw a ‘Finding Nemo’ calendar for 2004 and I thought I’d have it so we bought it and I looked through it.
On 13th November 2004, two days after my Mum and I moved into the house we are currently living in I saw two very good calendars for 2005. One of ‘Shark Tale’, and the other of ‘Creature Comforts’, and I was so excited I jumped high up in the air but no one watched and we bought them. In the same year I made a calendar for myself using 13 sheets of A4 paper, laminating them and hole punching them and it was a calendar for 2005 of Eric Clapton performing ‘I Shot The Sheriff’ on ‘The Old Grey Whistle Test’ in 1977.
In 2005 we bought a calendar for 2006 of this animated film called ‘Madagascar’. In early 2006 I made another calendar for myself for 2007 of a young Kevin on ‘Harry Enfield’s Television Programme’ messing about at Christmas dinner and I used exactly the same method as I did for the Eric Clapton calendar. I bought a calendar for the same year of another animated film called ‘Cars’. It was around the time when I started to get less excited about calendars.
I had three calendars for 2009, one of ‘Kung Fu Panda’, one of ‘City Scapes Of Britain’ and the other of ‘Wacky Races’ but I’ve never been bothered to hang them up because I wasn’t so into calendars than in the early days and I got rid of them some time in 2009.
My Nan got me a ‘South Park’ calendar for 2010. I put it up in my bedroom but I didn’t bother to keep it and I got rid of it in early 2010. At first I thought that would be the last calendar I’d ever have until I heard that there was this calendar for 2011 of this animated film called ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ and my Mum ordered it for me online. I’m planning to keep it even after 2011 as a piece of memorabilia.
Get Your Own Back
As a child I used to watch a programme called ‘Get Your Own Back’. It was hosted by a man called Dave Benson Phillips. In the show they got these kids on who wanted to get their own back on a family member who had done something to annoy them and they told the story about what the family member had done and they brought on the family member and the audience booed that family member. At the end of the show they covered the family member in gunge. I could watch it on YouTube but I’m not that interested in watching it again.
Initially I liked it because the gunge pool had writing on it and I was fascinated by what it would look like when the family member went in it although the design probably didn’t look so fascinating afterwards. I also used to pretend that they had different characters from children’s programmes such as ‘The Blobs’, ‘Lavender Castle’ and ‘Dino Babies’ as designs on the gunge tank, one for each episode. I now know to myself that if they tried that, they would have had an awful lot of trouble getting it absolutely right.
Robot Wars
I also used to watch a programme called ‘Robot Wars’. I mainly watched the fourth series when it was on in late 2000 and early 2001. In the show there were these teams who built their own robots to compete against each other in both friendly and tournament matches and at the same time as fighting against each other they had to avoid the ‘House Robots’ which were not bound by the same weight or weapon limits as the contestants.
I wouldn’t watch it anymore now because of the fact that I’ve been watching it on YouTube in 2009 and early 2010 during my dark phase even though it was on the telly before my dark phase, and the fact that we didn’t have YouTube before my dark phase.
My Present Interests
Part 1
These days, I’m into watching Stand-
Part 2
I now go out with a support worker called Chris on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Before
going out with him, I watch one of my Stand-
My main thing in life at the moment is going with him to the Bungalow Cafe in Marks Tey that’s very near the motorway, having something light to eat in there, and choosing which customer is okay to approach and offer a website card to. I have cards in my bag with information about my website and the website address on it. I usually keep an average of 40 in my bag and I print them on sheets of my blank paper and cut them out and it’s 4 cards per sheet.
We go to the cafe once one week on the Wednesday, and the next week we do it twice on the Tuesday and the Wednesday, and it’s new customers each time which is good. The ones we approach are those who are not busy eating or chatting, unless we wait till they finish eating or chatting, or after they sit down after coming in and ordering their food, in which case it’s fine to approach them and offer them a card. Since I’ve been doing this with Chris, my confidence has increased in approaching new people. I’ve even been chatting to them for a brief time which was not easy for me to do before hand. Never mind not seeing them again, just as long as they have a look at my website from time to time.
I’ve been going to the cafe with Chris since July 2010, which is good because my dark phase had not long finished then. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve actually done it but as long as I’m doing it and enjoying it, that’s the main thing and that’s my most favourite place to give my cards out.
