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I’ve got something new to show you but it’s having teething technical problems so here’s a bit of Friday fun while we wait.
Sam has tagged me with the ‘Eight random things about me’ meme, so here goes…
1. I’m neither left-handed, right-handed nor ambidextrous. I can do some things left handed (writing, drawing) and some right handed (wield a sword or tennis racket, both badly) but I can’t swap over.
2. I’m half English, half Scottish and part Irish. Maybe that accounts for 1.
3. I’ve got married twice but never divorced. To the same person - once in England, once in Japan.
4. I speak conversational French, functional German, emergency Italian and novelty-value Japanese.
5. I have recently seen the light over Twitter. You can follow me here if you know what that means. If not, fear not - I’ll be blogging it properly soon.
6. I gave up reading novels after my English degree. Why read 300 pages when a decent poet will do the job in one?
7. According to a medium, I drowned on a 15th century warship. She was right about everything else, so why not that?
8. Once upon a time I nearly got to be a copywriter for Debenhams‘ lingerie department. Sometimes I wonder what I would have written.
Well, there it is.
Let’s see if Antonio, Beeker, Cat, John, John, Johnnie, Mark and Quentin want to play.
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Done it!
Loved the speaking “emergency Italian” part, Mark. Somehow I think I know what that means
Glad you took up Twitter, although I found you through Brian at Copyblogger. I am told my ancient past was as a knight. Almost inclined to believe that, too.
Hi Valeria, it’s a small world on the web. I think I first came across you via David Armano, great to meet you on Twitter, see you there soon…
Quentin - good man.
I try.
I am certain you would have written the finest prose the “undies” world would have ever seen. But I think we are all grateful you ended up writing for us.
Prose? It would have been pure poetry…