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    My Personal Bucket List
    My Personal Bucket List
    My Personal Bucket List
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    My Personal Bucket List

    By Terry Aspinall

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    I'm almost 75 years old, and I have just been asked by a close friend if I have completed or at least made a 'Bucket List'. The truth is I had never thought about it. In fact, until it came out as a film a couple of years ago, I had no idea what a 'Bucket List' was.
    After a little research I have come to the conclusion that the term 'Bucket List', is a list of goals you would like to, or have already achieved. Rather than a list of places I have visited, this book contains a list of what I believe are personal goals and achievements I have obtained during my life time. I have also added what I consider as the losing of many of my nine lives along the way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTerry Aspinall
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781370484782
    My Personal Bucket List
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    Terry Aspinall

    I was born during the Second World War while my father was chasing Rommel out of North Africa and Italy, for this reason I never saw him until late 1946. I grew up in the sleepy little Suffolk country side town of Stowmarket, and underwent an education that to me seemed an absolute waste of time. Although with that wonderful tool known as hindsight, my reading and writing skills would have served me well in the writing of this book. I should have taken the trouble and given the teachers my full undivided attention and not the girls sitting next to me, while behind me was always the wall. Yes I was a back of class type of guy who was always getting into trouble and talking during class. Upon leaving school I became what was known as a Teddy boy and hung around with the Ipswich town local gangs. Once the novelty began to wear off, and I realised that if I carried on along the path I had chosen, it would only lead me into trouble with the law, so I decided on a complete life style change and joined the Royal Marines. My growing up during this period of time can certainly be attributed to my Royal Marine training, something that is still part of my life to this day. I tell of my service years and of being on active service in Borneo. Upon my release I became very interested and involved in the Rock n Roll music of the day, and helped form a local band in the town of Leiston in Suffolk. I also became involved in the then new sport of hang gliding. Which later lead me to strapping an engine on to my glider, and being amongst the first in the UK to pioneer the sport of Microlighting, and to set a record that still stands to this day. Eventually while working for Bernard Matthews I upped my family and immigrated to New Zealand, to help build a new factory in a small county town of Waipukurau on the North Island. Where I experienced a complete new style of living that my family and I all enjoyed, and took to it like ducks to water. It was a taste of what was to come when after three years I once again up rooted my family and move over the ditch as they say to Australia, but that’s another story?

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      My Personal Bucket List - Terry Aspinall

      My Personal Bucket List

      © Copyright 2018 by Terry Aspinall

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means electronic, mechanical, photographic (photocopying) recording, or otherwise without prior permission in writing from the author.

      ISBN: 9781370484782

      Published by Terry Aspinall

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      Dedication

      I would like to mention a few people who have helped mould me into the person I am today (2018). Firstly, my Mother and my Father, along with friends Paul Defane (New Zealand Musician), Rick Sparks (after leaving School we knocked around together), Tootsie Lawrence (who talked me into joining the Royal Marines), Ray Callahan (Musician who taught me how to play Bass Guitar), John McVie (Bass player who helped with advice), David Cook (Pilot) and his wife Catherine (Teacher), Pete Bowden (Hang Glider Pilot), Hans Van Oyen (Musician, we gigged together for 30 years), Ben Wright (Musician), Snowy, Mel and Sharpie (Hang Glider Pilots) Graeme Henderson (Hang Glider pilot, and historic researcher, for keeping me honest), and a special thank you to my sponsor, dearest Emily my wife.

      Parts of this book have been taken from my Autobiography 'Almost Total Recall'.

      Introduction

      In June (2018) I will be 75 years old, and I have just been asked by a close friend if I have completed or at least made a 'Bucket List'. The truth is I had never thought about it. In fact, until it came out as a film a couple of years ago, I had no idea what a 'Bucket List' was.

      After a little research I have concluded that the term 'Bucket List', is a list of all the goals you would like to achieve, dreams you want to fulfil and life experiences you desire to experience before you die.

      Having already experienced a lot of travel during the 60's, 70's and 80's, I have no further plans of places of interesting that I would like to visit. Instead I have concluded that as of now, I would like my 'Bucket List' to comprise of some of my personal Achievements. A long with the meeting and introduction of famous or well-known people from around the world. The latter being helped along by the computerised digital media that has certainly taken the world by storm and helped make it possible for all of us.

      I'm assuming that many of these have only been possible since the late 1980's. Although for me, I have only owned a computer since 1994.

      I'm very proud of all my Achievements, although many of them were planned, others came about by fate. I have added a 'Time Line' in a later chapter called 'Achievements'.

      I'm also aware that I have experienced several accidents and 'Near Misses', as we call them. Having concluded that I have definitely used up all my so-called quota of Nine sorry 'Eleven Lives'. Therefore, I have also decided to add a 'Time Line' list of those I survived.

      While I was attending Combs Ford Primary School one of the female teachers had read the 'Autobiography of a Super Tramp' to my class, over a several weeks. Even though it was an American story, it became one of my long-term goals to one day write my own 'Autobiography'. For some reason even, the word 'Autobiography' became a word that was well and truly imbedded in the back of my brain. It was just something I wanted to do, and probably the first long word I ever remembered. Although I must confess that how I was going to write it never a cured to me at the time. Maybe I was ahead of my time, in for seeing computers and being able to dictate into them. Although to just tell people that was what you wanted to do, sounded like you could just click your fingers and complete the task in a couple of days.

      TABLE OF CONTENT

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 - Swimming

      Chapter 2 - Edinburgh to Marble Arch

      Chapter 3 - Royal Marine Commando

      Chapter 4 - Sir Winston Churchill's funeral

      Chapter 5 - Love of Music

      Chapter 6 - Touring Germany

      Chapter 7 - Dunwich Cliffs

      Chapter 8 - Microlight Distance Record

      Chapter 9 - Woburn Abbey

      Chapter 10 - Advance Foods

      Chapter 11 - Autobiography

      Chapter 12 - Correcting History

      Chapter 13 - Stowmarket Nursery

      Chapter 14 - Thrashing Machine

      Chapter 15 - Guy Fawkes Rock

      Chapter 16 - Learning to Swim

      Chapter 17 - Dodgem Cars

      Chapter 18 - Motor Bike Shop

      Chapter 19 - Pushing My Luck

      Chapter 20 - The Cromer Rotor

      Chapter 21 - Helicopter Near Miss

      Chapter 22 - Parachute Malfunction

      Chapter 23 - Lockerbie

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      Chapter1

      Swimming

      I was never a football or cricket player, but I did take to the water like a duck. Having an outdoor swimming pool close to where I lived, attracted me whenever possible. Enabling me with the skills to compete at local swimming competitions. Later I represented my school, the Stowmarket Secondary Modern, the Stowmarket Swimming Club, and later the Royal Marines. I still have four Medals I won representing the 779 Squad Royal Marines while under training at Deal during 1962 (two firsts, and two seconds). While later in Singapore I still have a couple of Cups I won representing 40 Commando.

      During my last couple of years at school l always wanted to visit Singapore. Having seen a local teenager having joined the Merchant Navy and returning from Singapore wearing a beautiful silk embroidered jacket. That's what I wanted.

      Chapter 2

      Edinburgh to Marble Arch

      1959. December. One night while watching the television news I saw an article about Dr Barbara Moore, a Russian born Dietician who had walked from Edinburgh to Marble Arch, a distance of 395 miles. Completing the task in seven days and twelve hours, to claim some sought of record, while surviving on her specially prepared vegetarian diet. A challenge was then offered

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