Fantastic Four

I've been tagged...

Trig has recently completed the Fantastic Four meme so it's time for me to do so as well.  I guess this give a little insight into me...

4 jobs I’ve had in my life:

I've had quite a few jobs in my time - barman in a couple of places, working in a few shops, a brief and awful stint supposedly as a "butcher's boy" but actually spending all day cleaning out a weeks worth of crap from a walk-in fridge...  Here are four more:

1. Egg collector - seriously:  Weekend job collecting eggs.  There's not much more to it!
2. Telesales bod: My first real job, selling telecoms training courses to unsuspecting punters.  
3. Internet trainer/consultant:  Ah the good old days - I used to be someone important, y'know (well, that's what I kid myself).  The 5 years I spent slogging away at Cyberia were hugely stressful and enormous fun.
4. Online marketer: That's what I do now. 
   

4 places I have lived:

1. Buckinghamshire : We moved from Kent when I was a toddler and lived in various places in Bucks
2. St Andrews, Fife : At University, but staying up there during the summer too - absolutely splendid four years (not sure if my liver has yet recovered)
3. London : Various places in one of the greatest cities in the World - always south of the river - Raynes Park, Clapham, Battersea, Mortlake, Streatham
   
4. Lingfield, Surrey : Home now and for the forseable future

4 places I have been on holiday:

1. Cuba: Honeymoon in 2004 - terrible food (the national cuisine is school dinners), excellent music, cocktails and cigars
2. Zanzibar:  Great fun, great food.  Caught and ate [some of] a 60lb fish (and have the photos to prove it)
3. Andalucia: Jerez, Sevilla, Granada, Vejer, Cadiz... incredible culture, wonderful food and wine
4. The Gambia: Interesting - luxury among the poverty makes you feel a little odd.

4 of my favourite foods:

1. Ham: From a boiled gamon to jamon iberico, one of life's real pleasures.  The pig is an interesting animal - adored in many cultures, detested in others.  I love ham from England - York ham for example, from France (think Vendee ham or Bayonne), from Germany, Portugal... but especially Spain.
2. Fish: I think I love all fish and shellfish and there's a heavy bias towards this on the blog.  My last meal might be caviar on blinis with a little sour cream...
3. Sausages:  See above on ham.  From andouille to zampone, I love the lot.
4. Foie Gras: It's a contest between this and the caviar for that last meal - a big slab of seared foie...  But then you can drink champagne with the caviar, so maybe the foie will be my penultimate meal?
   

4 places I would rather be right now:

1. At home with my wife and baby
2. On holiday
3. In the kitchen
4. In the pub

And finally, four people to tag:

Fred & Ginger from Dinner Diary
Fiona from The Cottage Smallholder
Bix from The Fanatic Cook
Nick from The Tracing Paper

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