I like moronic jobs like mowing. I like looking back and admiring the stripes I've created on the lawn.
Michael Odell, This much I know, The Observer, 14 August 2004 source ↗
I like moronic jobs like mowing. I like looking back and admiring the stripes I've created on the lawn.
Michael Odell, This much I know, The Observer, 14 August 2004 source ↗
Through the winter before we tuck up at night, I always warm the bed with a hairdryer.
I like collecting rocks,” she smiles. “I’m obsessed with them. I don’t pick up any old rock; it has to have some kind of interest.
If I don't do that with the bottles, then I sit down, I could be thinking of something else. If I do always the same things, it means that I am focused and I'm alert to think purely about tennis.
I like to watch Netflix on double-speed. My wife says it ruins movies, but I love being able to watch twice as many movies in the same amount of time. And sometimes it doesn’t even feel rushed. I recently watched “Manchester by the Sea” on double-speed. I kind of wanted triple-speed for that one. I can’t imagine watching that in normal time.
My marriage has not been a drudge. But in 29 years there are times where it's not all excitement, thunderbolts and shooting stars. You have to think, 'I like you and I rate you,' and you'll ride it out.
Sitting down to supper with family and close friends, either in my garden or on my boat.
Rudeness, arrogance and inability to compromise.
That I have lost both my parents.
My old French teacher Madame Hawksworth stopped me in Ikley car park and said, 'We never thought you'd amount to much.'
My inability to play the piano.
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