A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.
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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗
My hybrid car. Not glamorous, not fast, but indispensable.
A fast Golf car. I got rid of it after about six months because it kept depreciating in value.
I bought all my siblings signet rings and pendants with my family crest on. There are a lot of us.
A Cessna Golden Eagle eight-seater aircraft. I flew it across the Atlantic both ways and did two US tours and two European tours in it. I finally sold it and got a job as an airline pilot in which I was paid to fly, rather than the other way round.
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
When I heard John Noakes had died.
My older sister, Jeanne. We fought when we were kids, but she is so entirely capable.
When I was doing my gold swimming badge. I had to get undressed in a swimming pool and had forgotten my gym kit, so the teacher gave me a kit two sizes too small. In the water, I got my arms up over my head to get the shirt off and they locked. I sank to the bottom of the pool and sat there until a girl jumped in and dragged me back up again.
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
I am my biggest disappointment.
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