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#TenThingsYouMayNotKnowAbout – #TonyJamesSlater

/ Marcia Meara / 139 Comments

Today, our guest blogger is Tony James Slater, and trust me, Tony’s entertaining and often hilarious #TenThings list is something you do NOT want to miss out on! With that thought in mind, let’s get this show on the road! Tony, take it away!

Thanks for having me today, Marcia!
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10 Things You May Not Know About Me
by Tony James Slater

  1. I can’t tell my left from my right. Seriously! I used to make an ‘L’ shape with my left hand – until I discovered that works with both hands, depending on whether the back or the palm is facing me… I have a tattoo artist friend who has threatened to put ‘L’ and ‘R’ on my hands, and I’d be tempted… except I’m not sure I trust her to do it the right way around!
  2. I met my fiancé in America. We met again in England, started dating in Australia and lived together for 2 years in New Zealand. She is Dutch.
  3. I was in UK show ‘Coronation Street’, as an ‘extra’ in the background – every other week for ten years! I must have drunk a couple of hundred pints in the Rover’s Return pub. Sadly there was no alcohol in any of them.
  4. I was bitten by a crocodile, during my stint of volunteering in an exotic wildlife refuge in Ecuador. It was only a small crocodile but the wound bled like crazy, and made me altogether more nervous when I had to catch the little fella again later that day…
  5. I delivered yachts for a little while – well, I delivered a yacht. It sank. I still maintain that this was not my fault.
  6. I renovated a house for ‘Property Ladder’, a popular TV show presented by Sarah Beeny. The finished program bore almost no resemblance to our experience, with the clips and interviews being cut apart and reassembled to tell a story the producers liked. That story could have been titled, ‘A Bunch of Complete Muppets Screw Up a Renovation…’
  7. I still play with Lego! A couple of years ago I decided I wanted a really cool mascot for my desk. I dug out my childhood Lego and started building a big grey robot. I don’t get to work on it much, but the project has grown a bit out of control… I’ve only just finished the legs, which are three feet tall 😮
  8. I also write science fiction, under the pen name ‘Tyler Aston’. I chose this because it sounded tougher, and possibly American… and because it’s an anagram of Tony Slater! I used an online generator to come up with it. The second choice option wasn’t quite as appealing: ‘Stanley Rots’.
  9. I sold my body to medical science. Repeatedly! In fact, that’s how I paid for our wedding! Testing experimental medicines is big business amongst the work-shy backpacker population, of which I’ve been a member most of my life. My biggest payout was £4000, for over a month in hospital. And I’ve never experienced any strange side effects… or have I?
  10.  I’m an adrenaline junkie! If I can’t slide down it strapped to a piece of wood, I want to climb it and jump off the top. At various points I’ve been obsessed with snowboarding, parkour, gymnastics, diving, climbing and kung-fu! Sadly, I am also one of the clumsiest individuals on the planet. Iget hurt a lot.


    Author Tony James Slater

    Tony James Slater is an unusual combination of science-fiction author and travel-memoir writer.

    He is a very, very strange man. He believes himself to be indestructible, despite considerable evidence to the contrary. He is often to be found making strange faces whilst pretending to be attacked by inanimate objects. But perhaps his biggest problem is this: he has a mouth so big he is at risk of swallowing his own head.

    It is for this reason (amongst others) that he chooses to spend his life far from mainstream civilization, tackling ridiculous challenges and subjecting himself to constant danger. He gets hurt quite a lot.

    For more information, or to complain about his shameless self promotion, please visit: www.TonyJamesSlater.com

    But BE WARNED! Some of the writing is in red.

    Tony LOVES it when you make contact – it makes him feel a little less lonely in this big ole’ world.

    You can follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/TonyJamesSlater

    You can harass him on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TonyJamesSlater

    And he blogs about how ridiculous his life is at: http://www.AdventureWithoutEnd.com

    Please come and hang out, send a message or throw something sticky. But preferably not a stick…

    You can also reach Tony on his Amazon Author Page HERE
    And you can check out these two books here: