Six Interesting Things about Me
- 1. I am a woman with a man's name. My parents named me after one of King Arthur's knights of the round table. This has led to some amusing misunderstandings but has also enabled me to pass every foreign language aural I have ever sat, on the basis that I knew the first question the examiner would ask me!
- I was born in Pune (formerly Poona) in western India and spent the first eighteen years of my life there.
- I used to rub drains, which is the same as rubbing brasses in churches except that you do it on pavements/streets at night to avoid pedestrians. This led to some very interesting conversations with drunks on their way home from the pub!
- I once won the mothers' potato and spoon race at my daughters' school's sports day. I was up against a few serious runners who ran too fast and dropped their potatoes. A textbook illustration of the old adage '(very) slow and steady wins the race'.
- I have ridden through the jungle on the back of an elephant - a truly unforgettable experience, including the time the elephant broke wind!
- I have sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and through the Suez Canal - not personally, as in a yacht, but as a passenger on a liner. I have also, obviously, crossed the equator when Neptune rose from the sea and decreed that I be given an egg shampoo and thrown into the swimming pool.
- Steve Broadway at bigdaddystevieB
- Blue Hands at Stuff and Nonsense
- Alice at Crumbs...
- Maisie at Our Greener Year
- Almost Mrs Average at The Rubbish Diet
- Mrs Green at My Zero Waste
Well, there's an unusual list of interesting things - fantastic Gai.
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Oh my word, what an amazing set of facts and I am so envious of riding on an elephant. I've flopped about on a camel at one point in my life which was an experience in itself. Thanks for the tag, I'll look forward to that next week. :-D x
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