International day of…

Sunday 10 March may be Mother’s day this year but it is also the second ever International Bagpipe day, if you are into that sort of thing and it is also the seventh International Day of Awesomeness.  Now not everyone can play the bagpipes and certainly not everyone can be a mother but everyone has it within them to be awesome.  

The International Day of Awesomeness is our once in a year chance to celebrate all of those people, places, ideas and things that do it for us, that stand out, that fill us with that certain sense of something indescribable.  And the beauty of it is that it is your choice as one man’s awesomeness is another man’s feebleness.

So how are you going to celebrate?  What feats of awesomeness will you undertake?  Which awesome places will you visit?

Here are a few suggestions of my own: Corned beef hash; all six remaining Deltic locomotives; the Norton Dominator; fish and chips at North Shields Fish Quay; walking on the beach at Boulmer; live classical ballet; watching re-runs of Benny Hill, jammy-dodger ice cream from Spurellis; Get down and get with it from Slade Alive; cheese (any kind except with fruit in it); the Toon; wolves; flocks of starlings; Six Thinking Hats; my Spanish dictionary which is falling apart; HTC phones; the ability to record television; BBC4; Nordic noir; Ivan Turgenev; chocolates from Fenwick; hats; flying ants; Turkish delight ice cream from Morwick farm; bears (especially brown ones); Primo Levi; the National Railway Museum at York; the Tyne Bridge; people who are members of the Institute of Customer Service; red shoes; Mulberry cuff links; bacon sandwiches; listening to PM on the way home; the Def Tones; Seinfeld; Twitter; thinking; a new tie; the blue cow vase I got from Melrose station; mouth organs; warm beer; cows; treasury tags; family (of course).

Have fun on the day and remember – no one’s perfect but everyone can be awesome.