50 things at 50 years of age
- 🎂 In full: James Douglas Lowry Spratt
- 🍼 Born Brighton, England
- 🎈 8th December 1975
- 🤱🏽I became a father to Frankie ‘Kee’ Spratt on 18th October 2007
- 🧑🏽🍼and to Alex Lowry Spratt on 18th December 2009
- 👭2 sisters, Emmah and Aly (down in Sussex);
- 👬 2 brothers, Chris and Otto (over in NZ)
- 🦶🏽 I broke my right foot when I was about 5, whilst on holiday in Cornwall. Dropped a paving slab on it looking for spiders
- 🕷️ I don’t really like spiders
- 🎽 I’ve run some marathons, P.B.: 3:10:31, Brighton 2011
- 🦶🏽 I now have 6 toe-nails
- 📏 I’m 183cms tall
- ⚖️ I weigh in at
14,13,1615 stone - 📚 Favourite books: ‘Papillon‘, ‘American Psycho’ and ‘A Million Little Pieces’
- 🍿 Favourite movies
- 🤕 In the year spanning 1995-1996 I had a total of 43 stitches from 3 different incidents over 3 different continents
- 🤹🏽♂️ I can juggle
- I can play the jaws harp
- 🪨 I’m 1.8% Neanderthal
- 🪶 0.2% native American
- 🤚🏽 I’m left-handed, except when it comes to eating and racket sports. Ergo, eating is a racket sport
- 💥 I want to be a stuntman when I grow up
- 🌍 I’ve been to 86 countries
- 🏡 I’ve lived in 41 different places
- 📼 The first album I bought was Michael Jackson, ‘Bad’ on cassette
- 💿 The first CD I bought was Michael Jackson, ‘Dangerous’
- 👼🏽 I met Mother Theresa at the Home for the Sick and the Dying Destitute, Calcutta
- 🌟 I’m an ‘ENTJ‘
- ✨ and a ‘Shaper‘, supposedly
- I mainly have tented arches
- 🩸Blood type: A+
- 🚫 I prefer not to eat aniseed, tripe, rollmops or truffle oil, everything else goes in
- 😎 I was a ‘Hopeful’
- 🍛 I’ve eaten: camel, elk, 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, puffin, reindeer, cow heel soup, beef spleen burger, a human placenta and 2 bars of lard
- 🥦 yet I support veganism
- 🧷 I have 4 and a bit tattoos, so far
- 🫶🏽 Jim Morrison shares the same birthday and middle name as me
- 👓 John Lennon was murdered on my 5th birthday. I paid homage at the Dakota Buildings Christmas 2016
- 🫅🏽Bohemian Rhapsody was #1 when I was born, 08.12.1975
- 🇮🇶 I was in Iraq 2004/5
- 🚌 I once bought a bus and drove from the UK to Nepal
- 🚲 I once cycled from the UK to Africa
- 🐂 I’ve run with the bulls, twice
- 🧀 I’ve rolled with the cheese, once
- 💀 So I now have metal in my neck
- 🩻 and have had spinal surgery
- 👨🏽🦳 but I will still live to 115 years old
- 🤿 I came mid-field in The World Bog Snorkelling Championships 2025
- 🎬 I’m quite into my movies
- 🌶️ More here: https://timeline.spratt.co
Moshi Moshi