Ten Things (You Probably Didn't Want To Know) About Me

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Inspired by @Tampa_girl7 I thought I'd give the 10 things about me thing a go!! 1. Although I'm capable of functioning normally with blood gushing from various wounds, and being able to watch a gory operation while eating lunch with absolutely no digestive distress, if I have to have a blood sample taken I keel over like a Victorian lady who's corsets are too tight. Note to self - try loosening corset next time!! 2. Despite being listed as 'Person most likely to kill an animal with his bare hands and eat it raw' when I was at school, I'm a vegetarian heading rapidly toward veganism!! I think I developed a conscience somewhere along the line!! 3. I'm right handed but left footed!! Quite what that says about my brain I really have no idea. 4. I spent a large part of my twenties developing software for all manner of electronic warfare equipment whilst in an alcohol induced haze. As most of the people I worked with were pretty similar to me I suspect that, if the button is ever pressed, it will merely result in a screen saying "System Error: Please contact your supplier", or something similar!! 5. I was part of the team who developed the software that made the fastest data rate video call over the UK public network in the early 1990s. Your average mobile phone can do it much faster now!!!! 6. As a child of about 6 or 7 years old I had two career ambitions, dustbin man (refuse collector) or, failing that, a priest. I have been an atheist since the age of about 10 but I still seem to spend most of my life dealing with other people’s crap!! So one out of two isn’t bad!! 7. This won’t mean much to most of you but I’ve attached a video. Marco Van Basten’s goal in the 1988 European Championship Final in Munich. I was there! In the stands directly behind him. It still gives me goose bumps when I see it! 8. I once bumped into Rolf Harris while strolling around Hyde Park. It was in the late 1980s so it was Ok to be seen in public with him then!! (NB. I’ve never met Jimmy Saville or Stuart Hall) 9. As an animal lover I would love to be able to buy a house with a bit of land and rescue a couple of donkeys and have loads of rescued cats and dogs! Not sure the retirement budget would stretch to that so will probably have to make do with a small cottage and a few dogs and cats! 10. I absolutely love comedy. All sorts! From the physical slapstick type stuff of the silent movies, to the silly, genius one liners of people like Tim Vine and Milton Jones through to the carefully crafted politically and socially motivated monologues of people like Stewart Lee, via the oo er missus you don’t get many of those to the pound Carry On movie stuff. I’d rather spend my time laughing than doing anything else!!