A few days ago I was tagged by M&M.
So here are the seven useless facts about me.
1- When I was a kid, I wanted to be a tv weatherman when I grew up.
2- By the time I went to sixth form, I wanted to become an accountant, but got involved with the student newspaper at university and settled on journalism.
3- I have a 'thing' about maps, often finding them fascinating. I have a thing about roads too and I often used to take old maps and draw new roads on them. Sometimes my doodles consist of imaginary maps. If I could not be Prime Minister, I would happily be Transport minister and would happily motorways criss-crossing our land. Wellington-Whangarei motorway, anyone?
4- Sorry Adolf, but while you have a lovely Holden, I'm more of a Falcon man, having two when I lived in Australia a couple of years back. Now, I drive a Mitsubishi Carisma which has none.
5- When I was a kid, I used to just about worship cats, always kissing and cuddling them. Now I'm allergic to them.
6- I haven't always been a right-wing bastard. Growing up in a Yorkshire mining village, I recalled thinking Tories were 'snobs' when I was very young, until discovering my self-employed parents were Conservatives. And I really didn't become a Thatcherite until a few weeks off school with chicken pox gave me a chance to what all the main party conferences and being enthralled by the "U-Turn if you want to, the Lady's Not for Turning!" speech.
7- And finally, talking of Margaret Thatcher, I too was born above a grocer's shop. But I'm not sure if my parents had a VG or a Spar.
Now, as this tag has done the rounds, I won't tag any others, but our commenters are free to add any revealing useless facts about themselves.
May 26 in history
4 hours ago
7 comments:
I didn't realise Transport Ministers did much building motorways these days, if its not taniwha its the greens. Your map thing is very cool though I do something similar with creating horse riding courses.
But anyway what about the rules? ... the lengths I have to go to to get No Minister to link to us ;-)
My 7 is far superior to your 7
Gee that was subtle M.
Madeliene, you have to link to Barnsley Bill first, we then waut a week and see if it is a comfortable fit. If you do not get black balled by anybody on the committee we then post a notice to our readers asking for comments.
1. I pick my nose.
2. I eat the boogies.
3. i lack Charisma.
4. I lack an understanding of economics, too
5. I am the Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, which is in Scotland.
6. Yet somehow I find myself Prime Minister of England.
7. I am a miserable turd.
8. As 7 is similar to 3, I'll have another go. No world leaders seek me out: that lovely Mr Key only popped in to say hello cos he was here to meet the queen and he felt sorry for me.
lest folk not understand about 6;
The scots have their own "government", as does Northern Ireland and Wales. But not Engerland.
Phase 1 of my application is complete.
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