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Yes.

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Yes, but I haven't flown in years.

What is the longest distance you've ever traveled?

In one journey? I'd estimate a little over a thousand miles (Gatwick/Birmingham INTL to Alicante).

I absolutely love flying. Do you have a favourite civil aircraft?

Like favorite type of plane? Ive never really thought about it

Would you say you have a green thumb?

Living in an apartment block in a major city, I don't do much gardening, but I do love the outdoors when I get a chance to see them. Whenever I go to Ireland, after a few days in Dublin, I make the rest of the trip a walking holiday through the country's superb countryside. If the weather permits, I can easily walk twenty miles a day over there.

What religion do you belong to?

Church of England / Anglican.

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None. I wish I could bring myself to join the Catholic Church, and that they'd want me, but despite hundreds of hours spent trying to find a warrant for Christian belief, I can't convince myself, and when I asked about attending their services, they weren't particularly enthusiastic anyway.

Hilaire Belloc famously said "The Church is Europe and Europe is the Church". I suppose the Church seems fated to disappear into irrelevance just as much as Europe itself.

What's your favourite poem?

The sonnets of Shakespeare and Petrarch.

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I don’t have a favourite

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"Au Lecteur" from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal:

La sottise, l'erreur, le péché, la lésine,
Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps,
Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords,
Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine.
Nos péchés sont têtus, nos repentirs sont lâches;
Nous nous faisons payer grassement nos aveux,
Et nous rentrons gaiement dans le chemin bourbeux,
Croyant par de vils pleurs laver toutes nos taches.
Sur l'oreiller du mal c'est Satan Trismégiste
Qui berce longuement notre esprit enchanté,
Et le riche métal de notre volonté
Est tout vaporisé par ce savant chimiste.
C'est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous remuent!
Aux objets répugnants nous trouvons des appas;
Chaque jour vers l'Enfer nous descendons d'un pas,
Sans horreur, à travers des ténèbres qui puent.
Ainsi qu'un débauché pauvre qui baise et mange
Le sein martyrisé d'une antique catin,
Nous volons au passage un plaisir clandestin
Que nous pressons bien fort comme une vieille orange.
Serré, fourmillant, comme un million d'helminthes,
Dans nos cerveaux ribote un peuple de Démons,
Et, quand nous respirons, la Mort dans nos poumons
Descend, fleuve invisible, avec de sourdes plaintes.
Si le viol, le poison, le poignard, l'incendie,
N'ont pas encor brodé de leurs plaisants dessins
Le canevas banal de nos piteux destins,
C'est que notre âme, hélas! n'est pas assez hardie.
Mais parmi les chacals, les panthères, les lices,
Les singes, les scorpions, les vautours, les serpents,
Les monstres glapissants, hurlants, grognants, rampants,
Dans la ménagerie infâme de nos vices,
II en est un plus laid, plus méchant, plus immonde!
Quoiqu'il ne pousse ni grands gestes ni grands cris,
Il ferait volontiers de la terre un débris
Et dans un bâillement avalerait le monde;
C'est l'Ennui! L'oeil chargé d'un pleur involontaire,
II rêve d'échafauds en fumant son houka.
Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monstre délicat,
— Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!

Have you ever had your brain scanned? What method was used?

Regular EEG, Sleep-Deprived EEG, PET Scan, CT Scan, MRI Scan with and without contrast, Sleep Lab Wires.

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I had an MRI scan in 2010 or so. I was never given a copy of it.

I was told that there were no abnormalities, but I'm still convinced I had something like a mini stroke that year - and potentially others since.

Loose tea or tea bags?

Mini-strokes (TIA) don't show up on scans. I've had TIA and a real stroke.

Loose tea.

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Only PG Tips Pyramid Tea Bags allowed in my house.

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No preference.

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I don`t have any preference either, I happily use both types.

Have you seen the Aurora/Northeren lights "live" with your own eyes? And do you appreciate such experiences?