About

  1. Born Brighton, England, 8th December 1975
  2. Full name: James Douglas Lowry Spratt. Douglas from my father’s father, Lowry seems to be optional.
  3. I became a father to Kee McConnachie Spratt on 18th October 2007
  4. and to Alex Lowry Spratt on 18th December 2009
  5. 2 sisters, Emmah and Aly; 2 brothers, Chris and Otto
  6. The only bone I’ve broken is in my right foot when I was about 5, whilst on holiday in Cornwall. Dropped a paving slab on it whilst looking for spiders to take home to scare my mother
  7. I’ve run a bunch of marathons, P.B.: 3:10:31
  8. So I now have 6 toe-nails
  9. I’m 183cms tall
  10. and I weigh in at 14, 13, 16 (!) 15 stone
  11. Favourite books: ‘Papillon‘, ‘American Psycho’ and ‘A Million Little Pieces’ 
  12. Favourite movies
  13. In the year spanning 1995-1996 I had a total of 43 stitches from 3 different incidents in 3 different countries
  14. I can juggle
  15. I can play the jaws harp
  16. I’m 1.8% Neanderthal
  17. and 0.2% native American
  18. I’m left-handed, except when it comes to eating and racket sports. Ergo, eating is a racket sport
  19. I want to be a stuntman when I grow up
  20. I’ve been to 83 countries
  21. I’ve lived in 41 different places
  22. My Room 101
  23. I once met Mother Theresa at the Home for the Sick and the Dying Destitute, Calcutta
  24. I’m an ‘ENTJ’, supposedly
  25. and a ‘Shaper’, supposedly
  26. I mainly have tented arches
  27. Blood type: A+
  28. I prefer not to eat aniseed or truffle oil, everything else goes in
  29. I was a ‘Hopeful’
  30. I’ve eaten: camel, elk, reindeer, horse, crocodile, kudu, ostrich, locusts, grubs, a bowl of ducks’ tongues, lamb brain, pig spleen, pig tail soup, pig stomach, pig intestines, pig’s ears, cow heel soup, a placenta and 2 bars of lard
  31. I support veganism
  32. I have 4 tattoos, so far
  33. My father lives in Thailand, Slovakia, India, France, Belgium, Surrey, on a boat, in Brighton; mother in Northland, NZ
  34. Jim Morrison shares the same birthday and middle name as me
  35. John Lennon was killed on my 5th birthday
  36. Bohemian Rhapsody was #1 when I was born
  37. I went to war in Iraq
  38. I bought a bus and drove from the London to Kathmandu
  39. I bought a bicycle and cycled from the UK to Africa
  40. I’ve run with the bulls, twice
  41. I’ve rolled with the cheese
  42. The first cassette I bought was Michael Jackson, ‘Bad’
  43. The first CD I bought was Michael Jackson, ‘Dangerous’
  44. I’m going to live to 115 years old

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