Darnit, I’ve been tagged by Grandad, so I now need to do some thinking. Eight things that you didn’t know about me:
- I’ve played in two ‘men-only’ rugby matches when I lived in France. First time was for the local town team second string, they had 14 players for a match and the opponents had 15, so instead of canceling they asked the opponents if I could play (I was their First Aider) and the opponents agreed (let me just say that I did have rugby experience). They were kind enough to make me captain (really just to ensure that I understood what the ref was saying) and went light on their tackles. I can’t remember if we won or not, but I strongly recollect our team being clapped off the field and me getting multiple ‘cheek kisses’ from our opponents – as they commented, they were not going to get a chance to kiss one of their opponents again soon!
- In one year my hair was red, green, blond & brown. This was also the year I lived in France.
- I believe that i was strangled in a previous life, I have a total phobia about people touching the front of my neck. A friend once grabbed me there when joking around and she ended up halfway across the room, it was a totally instinctual reaction!
- I don’t drink coffee ever (can’t stand the taste) and I rarely drink tea – usually only when eating shortbread in winter. I hate it when people always offer me tea or coffee, especially when they’ve been repeatedly told for years that I don’t like it. My favourite drink is ice-cold water.
- Party Trick 1: Most people can cross both their eyes in towards the centre, but ever since I had surgery on my eye muscles as a teenager to correct my squint, I’ve been able to control just my right eye. It really freaks people out when I swing just my right eye in towards the centre. It also nearly earned me a spot on Podge & Rodge last year, but the guy who can drink and then cry milk was deemed to be even weirder!
- Party Trick 2: This one dates form my university days… I’m a ‘well endowed’ girl, so I can hold and drink from a beer bottle without using my hands… I’ll leave this one to your imagination!
- Party Trick 3: The newest party trick is one I learned this year when on a trip to Arizona. The wonderful Phylis from the Philippines was also visiting and we had a few drinks in the bar. She asked the barman for some maraschino cherries and proceeded to try and tie the stem in a knot in her mouth. I just had to have a go, and managed it – three times in a row. The men at the bar decided my husband was a very lucky man…
I sympathise with point four. I can’t stand tea or coffee and always have to explain why? Why do people not like things? Gets me going every time. A cold glass of water or milk hits the spot.
Posted on July 12, 2007 at 8:39 am.
It’s much more prevalent in Ireland as well, my mother-in-law bitches (jokingly) that I’ve never drunk a cup of tea in her house! Coffee just tastes too bitter to me, I don’t even like coffee-flavoured things (such as tiramisu or ice-cream) and tea is only OK when drowned in milk and sugar.
Posted on July 12, 2007 at 8:42 am.
Sad.
I only learned one new thing about you! No.7.
Posted on July 12, 2007 at 9:07 am.
I’ve just realised that there’s only 7 things up there, not 8 as requested…. D’oh!
Posted on July 12, 2007 at 9:08 am.
Learned something else!
Elly can’t count… You should have done so in Irish, French or German like I taught you
Posted on July 12, 2007 at 9:11 am.
I have that neck thing too… never thought about being strangled in a previous life though… creepy!
The old cherry stem trick is always a crowd pleaser! I spent years mastering it though I wonder why!
Posted on July 12, 2007 at 9:18 am.
2. – All at once???
5. – I remember him – he was disgusting. You would have been much better.
6. – I’m not sure I want to go there [mentally, I mean]
So now you have even taught your mother something she didn’t know. The power of the Internet
Posted on July 12, 2007 at 10:09 am.
Grandad – # 2 – not at all once! Over the space of the year. Bottle blond to the Paula Yates extent, paprika red short spiky hair and green for St. Patrick’s day – which was supposed to be temporary but ended up being not so…
Posted on July 12, 2007 at 10:15 am.
Pity. It would have been an interesting combination. Especially if done in intertwining Celtic scrolls..
Posted on July 12, 2007 at 11:13 am.