Thursday, October 23, 2008

Six Me, Me, Me Facts

My old friend Steve has passed on a 'blog-tag' which challenges me to tell the world 6 random things about myself. Since there's no subject I'd like to write about more than myself, this has prodded me into blogging despite work busy-ness:
  1. Stirling Moss was my landlord for a while. He was a right stingy old git. When I moved out of the modest bedsit in West Kensington, he took £50 off my deposit for a lost teacup and some scuffed paint. After haggling over this for 10 minutes, he wrote the cheque for my deposit using a Coutts chequebook.
  2. I have a fantasy about what I’d wish for if I met a genie. The wish I’ve thought out in most detail is this: duplicating the Earth in an equivalent orbit on the other side of the sun and populating it with friends and family. A fresh start for the planet and an amazing adventure for everyone I know. Obviously it could be really shit if we starve to death before figuring out how to grow food and, admittedly, friends and family might not be up for a Ray Mears-style survivalist paradise…
  3. I once shared a flat in Finsbury Park with a member of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. They were very big in Japan, apparently.
  4. My left foot is half a size larger than my right foot. This is a common thing, which has led me to suspect that there’s a business idea in selling shoes individually rather than in pairs.
  5. I used to cry at old Bette Davies weepies as a child – and yet, miraculously, I’m not gay!
  6. My cholesterol level (score, rating or whatever you call it) is 9 – which is rather high according to my doctor. Sob, no more steak for me!

5 comments:

Steve said...

Maybe you could give all your steaks to me in future?

Brother Tobias said...

I like the second earth idea. Perhaps you'd need to expand the wish to include a handful of skilled tradesmen just to get things going. Scope for a meme here; what 10 professionals would you take with you...metallurgist, dentist, plumber, geisha, politician (or maybe not...)

Lucy Fishwife said...

I lie awake sometimes formulating my genie-wishes in watertight legalese so they can't pull the traditional fast one on me ("Ah but you only said you wanted to live for ever, not to be eternally young..."). I may be one of the few people I know who owns the CD of the UOGB rendering "Miss Dynamitee-ee"...

Tristan said...

Lucy - wow, my ex-flatmate Hester would be chuffed. They did a cracking version of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.

Bruv - great idea for a meme! Are you going to tag?

Stevie - you're missing out on steak and I'll gladly make my red meat available to you...

Steve said...

It'll be served up tartare I take it? ;-)