"Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man" -- Francis Xavier

Meme I hardly ever get tagged with these meme things. I'm sad enough to usually just do them anyway, so it would be wrong not to follow Kristine's lead. It's interesting to note that since I last did the five things you didn't know about me meme, another three slots have been added, and like Kristine it seems like a cop out just add another three to those. And so, since I've been away for so long, here are ....

8 things you may not know about me

(1) I haven't seen any of the Rocky films. Or Rambos.

(2) I'm deformed. My little finger on my left hand is about twenty percent too small.

(3) I really fancy this woman:



She's Ruth Gibson and she does the answer machine message for Orange, and has one of the sexiest voices I've ever head. Seriously, you would have thought adding credit to your mobile phone account could be that pleasurable? The picture is from her appearance on The Culture Show on BBC2 during which she told a very funny story about trying to convince a pensioner that she didn't take all of those phone calls. Perfect.

(4) I'm really crap with Excel. I've done courses but the most I can get it to do is add up and not very successfully.

(5) Only one song released in the past five years is guaranteed to make me burst into tears and that's The JCB Song by Nizpoli. I'll be writing some more about that at some point I expect.

(6) I hate people who fidget with their hands. I sat next to a man in a suit on the bus today who spent the whole journey making a fist relaxing his fingers then making a fist again. It's very difficult to concentrate on anything with that happening in the corner of your eye. I expect he was practicing.

(7) The first book I read from cover to cover was Robert A. Heinlein's Have Spacesuit Will Travel

(8) When I was at primary school I'd sit making daisy chains with the girls rather than playing football with the boys. Give me a child until he is seven etc.