Old enough to know better, and often wondering why
I bother. In retrospect I wish I'd listened to my mother.
I have no idea what she said, but had I listened,
I'm sure things would have turned out differently.
About
me...
Married for
thirty-five years, I have two adult children, three grand-children and a
menagerie of grand-dogs.
I have
degrees in mathematics and life science, and post graduate qualifications in
the theory of distance-based models of delivering education. To pay my bills I
keep busy, but I try not to mention work too much here; I do that somewhere else on the net.
In the
past I have bred pythons and boa constrictors, having built their vivaria myself.
I ran a rather successful herpetological web site for some years. I have been
bitten by tigers and anacondas. I have flown kites large enough to lift me off
the ground. I have appeared on television several times, once or twice
appearing as a Klingon (for no adequately explored reason). I was a Cub
Scout leader for thirteen years, and in that time I took cub scouts to France,
Canada (twice) and the United States.
I have
been a steward of the Methodist church (before I saw the darkness), and
then I became (and still am) an accredited minister of the Church of the
Apathetic Agnostic (don’t know, don’t care!), but am slowly wondering if
I might just be mistaken in my agnosticism.
Nowadays
(when nothing else is planned), with a group of friends I will cycle or
walk or fish or camp or geocache. I was voted "Kent Geocacher of the
Year" in 2015.
For an overweight aging fifty-something I amaze myself by regularly walking all day long at the weekends with my two (sometimes three) small dogs.
For an overweight aging fifty-something I amaze myself by regularly walking all day long at the weekends with my two (sometimes three) small dogs.
I enjoy
archery and fishing whenever I get a spare moment. I frequent beer festivals,
kite festivals and bonfire parades whenever the opportunity arises. I've taken
to brewing beer at home, and have been pleasantly surprised with my results.
I am
currently putting the finishing touches to my first novel. But to be honest I
have been doing that for nine years.
Why my
Blog Title?
As a
child I read two other Secret Diaries – one of Adrian Mole and one of Hadrian Vile. Both of which
have influenced me over the years. As for the “Manky Badger” – it’s my
old C.B. radio name from the early 1980s. Since that time I (like Mrs McCave) have
found out that the world already has enough Daves in it..
About my
blog...
This blog
is my diary, my plans for the future, my rants about the world I'm stuck in. I
write it because if I don’t, I will forget what I’ve done with my life.
I welcome
comments on all blog entries, especially if anyone should disagree with me. But
I reserve the right not to publish offensive comments, and I usually don't
publish anonymous comments. After all, it's easy enough to add your name to
your comment.