When I added 'Customize a motorbike' to my #40at40 list I was not thinking of any motorbike. I was of course thinking of my own. As I touched upon in a previous blog post, some people change their motorbike every year. If a bike is well looked after, the trade-in price or money from a private sale can go a long way to securing the latest model. There are I'm sure a heap of reasons for people … [Read more...] about 004 – Customize a Motorbike
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003 – Have a Yodeling Lesson
I was invited to Vienna by 'ORF' Austria's national public service channel. I was to be a guest on a TV show discussing the current challenges facing public service broadcasting. My Austrian friend Dan picked me up from Gratz and we drove into Vienna a day earlier. Dan had read my 40at40 list and figured he could at least help knock one item off the list. He had wanted to take me on Europe's … [Read more...] about 003 – Have a Yodeling Lesson
002 – Eat in a Ukrainian Restaurant
The years are mounting up this side of my Granddads death and as well as the conversational glimpses into my family history, I find myself missing the food we would eat. He loved his food. In his final years, housebound and slowly going blind, conversation, food and the radio were his only real pleasures. My Gran looked after the food side of things. She would cook all the dishes he enjoyed … [Read more...] about 002 – Eat in a Ukrainian Restaurant
001 – Go to a pub dressed as a Stormtrooper
My full 40at40 list is here on OurManInside.com This blog text is taken from here For me my '40 at 40' list is an excuse to do forty crazy or unusual things in a year where people think I might perhaps be losing the plot. If it's on a list it's premeditated and can't be confused with those sporadic choices we are said to make in the midst of a midlife crisis, right? I don't actually subscribe to … [Read more...] about 001 – Go to a pub dressed as a Stormtrooper
40 at 40
I'm 40 today. When I was a kid I thought that I'd feel like an old man at this age but I don't. I still feel like a kid. Like another version of that same kid that found it impossible to visualise what life would be like this far into the future. Now I'm here and understand a little more of the world, I can see there are so many things I may never understand. And that's ok. If I could go back and … [Read more...] about 40 at 40