When I was 47...

Sometimes I wear a BIGGER hat
I've just suffered my 48th birthday so this year, as every year, I'm totting up a list of all the things I've done for the FIRST TIME EVA. Am I getting old? You decide!

When I was 47, for the very first time...

I got a speeding citation, goddamnit. It was the end of a five-hour drive and I got clocked literally one minute from my home, doing 35 in a 30 m.p.h. zone. I put up Xmas lights outside my house:
A strong sign of old age... I acquired a tablet. I played Plants vs. zombies all the way through! It's pretty much the only thing I've done with the tablet, I admit, apart from use the lovely lovely sat nav :-)I rode a Segway, and loved it.I decided I liked Marmite after all, and that scones taste best with just butter.I met Shanna Germain at last! (And visited the British Library on the same day)I grew a beard. Not just one beard either. It's amazing how fast I got used to it.I gave up on IPL. It doesn't work (for me).I recorded a couple of podcasts. Well, other people did the actual recording. I just talked. I set up Amazon Author Pages ... (more stuff to fail to maintain, frankly)I had my back garden covered in plastic lawn. You have no idea how much I love it, now winter is here.I visited Carcassonne in France, and the island of Bermuda. 
I visited the awesomely wonderful Talliston House and crawled under the sideboard there.I bought an eyepencil sharpener. They are not just the same as normal pencil sharpeners, it turns out, and are well worth it if you use eyeliner. Who knew, eh?I watched a pig race.I finally managed to see Deliverance and The Big Lebowski. I paid £8.55 for a glass of wine in a hotel bar. Jeez. I'm still suffering flashbacks.I ate a gin-and-tonic flavoured cupcake!I kept a phenology log.I took up oasis sculpting: It's not the best medium to make sarcophagi out of, tbh.


PLUS:

Having spent all 2012-3 writing Cover Him with Darkness, Fierce Enchantments and Summer Seduction, which went one by one to three different publishers ... In 2014 I saw them all published within a month of each other. *rolls eyes*

It's a conspiracy, I tell you.