Friday, 24 September 2010

25 Facts




Here are some things you may or may not know about me!

1. I love chicken.
2. I love chocolate and can eat multiple bars at a time.
3. I love puddings.
4. I could eat a whole jug of custard by itself.
5. I hate cooking.
6. I am terrified of snakes.
7. I am almost as terrified of lifts as I am of snakes - especially the silver lifts that you can't see out of.
8. I hate driving long distances.
9. I love travelling by train.
10. I love Star Trek.
11. I love Star Wars.
12. I hated every minute of school yet strangely look back on it fondly now.
13. I once met Terry Waite.
14. My favourite colour is green.
15. I always wanted long hair, a bit like Tom Cruise had in MI2, but whenever I tried growing it, it always turned out more like Rod Hull.
16. I love 80s music.
17. When I was little, I wanted to be a bus driver.
18. The words I most dread as an IT Manager are "The systems running really slow today". Somebody is going to say that one time too many one day!!!!
19. I hate hearing the words "Ah, just the man", or "While you're here".
20. I can't believe that in this day and age, nobody has invented garden grass that doesn't need cutting.
21. I am hopeless at DIY. Thank God for my Father In Law!!
22. I don't do queues. If I can't get straight into the barbers or the petrol station then I won't bother and will just try again another day.
23. I love sleep. I wish I could do more of it.
24. The great Sir Bobby Robson once sat at the next table to me at Beamish Hall. It took all my willpower not to bother him but I thought he deserved his privacy. He smiled at my Son which was good enough for me.
25. I think Beamish open air museum is possibly my favourite place in the world.





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4 comments:

  1. What a great idea....

    1. I love my car
    2. I love the sun
    3. I hated school, and don't look back at if fondly at all
    4. I think idea of facebook is incredible and wish I'd thought of it first
    5. I love Star Trek
    6. I want a holo-deck
    7. My best ever Christmas present was a ZX Spectrum
    8. I used to have a Big Trak
    9. I love wine and hate southern Comfort
    10. I have 2 tattoos, but am tempted for a 3rd
    11. I would love to have hair again
    12. I wish I knew my times tables better
    13. I love words, but am useless at crosswords
    14. I wear slippers
    15. My favourite word is 'facilitate'
    16. Oranges give me a migrane
    17. I love celery, but hate olives
    18. I would love to be taller
    19. I hate food shopping
    20. I love green tea as long as they don't muck about with adding Jasmine or lemon
    21. I think running is very wrong
    22. I'm a Leo
    23. I have size 8 feet
    24. I hate ties
    25. I love my iPod

    Simon

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  2. Wish I'd thought of Facebook too. Oh, favourite word is a good one. I will have to think of mine.

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  3. I am going to have to do mine now as well,

    1. I once met David Beckham
    2. I love cooking
    3. I love watching cooking programs
    4. I hate peanut butter
    5. I am a trained yoga teacher
    6. My favorite film is Gone with the wind
    7. I can never remember the end of films or tv programs
    8. I think Star trek is dull
    9. I am not very tidy
    10. I love Slimming World
    11. I love musicals
    12. I love my iphone
    13. I love olives but hate celery
    14. I think gardening is pointless
    15. I like reading
    16. I love Harry Potter books
    17. I have really gone off Jamie Oliver. Sometimes children just want to eat rocket shaped chicken.
    18. I like Vodka
    19. I love Cary Grant films
    20. I think the Lord of the rings books are rubbish
    21. My favourite colour is pink
    22. I think Lady Gaga is great
    23. I once met Prince Charles
    24. I wish I could go to the cinema more often
    25. I can't spell

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  4. Here's mine...Phil.

    25 things you didn't know about me;

    1. I love red wine.
    2. I hate kidneys!
    3. I love an American TV show called the'Golden Girls' and have every episode on VHS and imported DVD!
    4, My favourite colour is red.
    5. Can't really swim!
    6. Thinks captain Katherine Janeway was the best star trek captain of all time!
    7. Always cries when I watch the film Stepmon
    8. Can recite every word of every song in the film 'The Wizard of Oz'!
    9. Always smiles when he sees his niece
    10. Loves cheese but not the smelly
    11. Prefers Indian to Chinese food
    12. Hates his bald spot
    13. Loves the autumn
    14. Loves everything about fireworks especially the bangs!!
    15. The smell of tinsel always makes me feel like a kid
    16. Misses 'Marathons' and 'Opal Fruits'
    17. Can't stand any sea food apart from prawns
    18. Is allergic to cats
    19. Had his ears pierced 4 times
    20. Once owned a pair of tartan 'Doc Martins and had a 28" waist!
    21. Loves 'Diagnosis Murder' and actually series links it on Sky+
    22. Has a rather large tattoo!!!
    23. Thinks my bed is the best place in the world
    24. Thinks his favourite place in the world is Hyde Park or Paddy's Markey (Sydney)
    25. Loves shopping with him mam and auntie on a wednesday cos they always give me the gossip!!

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