When I was 48 ...

Janine Ashbless: culture vulture Every year  on my birthday I look back - just to check that I haven't got old and stopped trying new things yet. So here, as I teeter on the far edge of my forties, is my latest log...

When I was 48, for the very first time ...

I fulfilled a lifetime dream and I now OWN A SMALL WOODLAND! For my birthday I went out to saw my own trees for the first time ever and it was AWESOME :-)I gave a Powerpoint presentation (it was at Eroticon 2015, where I also drank my way through a party tray of flavoured vodkas, and tried cupping, so it was a whole weekend of Firsts) I briefly owned a selfie-stick. I never used it.I bought a she-wee. I have used it, with varying degrees of success (!)I got spanked in public by Cara Sutra (and it was Facebooked!)

I had my first breast-cancer scare and my first mammogram. Thankfully, the results were negative, but for two weeks I was seriously focused on rearranging my life.I started running. I stopped running ... :/I bought a vape pipe. Two, in fact.I had my DNA sequencedI visited Germany (Munich, several times, because Mr Ashbless' employer was paying), Austria (Salzburg), Portugal (Lisbon), and quite a lot of Ethiopia.

I got a story into Best Horror of the Year!I started getting Friend requests from weird blokes attempting to pull on Facebook. Somehow I'd managed to avoid it until now.I took a cushion to the cinema because the seats hurt my back :-(I saw AC/DC, the Foo Fighters and Fall Out Boy gig live. I liked FOB best, because they had the best sound set up by far. I mean Wow, you could actually hear the lyrics!

I took part in one of those Puzzle Rooms where you get locked in and have to Adventure Game your way out. WE FAILED.I was granted a small coastal town in the amazing Map of Literature

I had some POETRY printed in an anthology! Good grief! Then I videoed me reading some!
Forty-eight was pretty amazing really. I have no idea what forty-nine will bring - and that's a good thing :-)