Tagged
I hadn’t even heard of this until a couple of minutes ago, but it sounds like the sort of thing that might happen so I guess I’ll play along… Apparently the rules of the game are that a fellow blogger ‘tags’ you and then you have to reveal 5 hitherto un-public facts and tag 5 more people - you can see how this could quickly get out of hand if it weren’t for the totally reliable constraint of apathy and the fact that I’m not even sure I know 5 bloggers…
Five Facts you might not know…
- I have a black belt in Jiu Jitsu - I spent 5 years getting battered and bruised, ignoring my complete lack of any natural talent or physical coordination and for once in my life relied on sheer determination to get through, and you know what, it worked. One Saturday morning in July 1992 I walked into a room, with absolutely no idea what was going to happen other than that I probably wouldn’t like it (maybe like the opening scene in Saw), and an hour later I walked out, intact, having stopped some very determined people from hurting me very badly - with knives, broken bottles, swords (katana), chairs, and good old fists and feet - it was without a doubt the best hour of my life - I have never felt so alive, so focused and so completely committed - I am sure that in this state you could achieve anything…
- I have walked on fire - you know the burning coals thing. I went to Hawaii for a personal development course (as you do!) and on the final day we all walked on fire - under a full moon, with drums for a soundtrack, burning torches lighting the way - 1,500 people all absolutely focused (see above) on one thing - not burning their feet - and to achieve whatever end they had committed to earlier in the week, to rid the demons, close the skeleton closet, lose the baggage and not let anything ever get in the way of their pursuit of personal fulfilment. It was an unbelievable experience and one that I would certainly recommend to anyone. And no, I didn’t burn my feet because I am way too cool for that.
- I have done a half marathon - 13 miles in 2 hours - wasn’t really that tough - but couldn’t walk for a week afterwards. Was a great day out and have enormous respect for my sister who did a full marathon on her 40th - I have a couple of years to decide that I won’t be doing that…
- I’ve seen the sun rise over Everest - it was very beautiful, but I was massively distracted by acute mountain sickness - the night before I had the worst headache of my life, and we woke at 3.30am and had to climb 600m vertically - I could only manage about 10 steps (literally!) before I had to stop and rest, it took forever… shame, it should have been magical but it was awful…
- Many of my friends think I’m a good cook. What they don’t know is that I can only make about 1/2 dozen dishes and that all guests get the “World’s best risotto” the first time they’re invited for dinner. I live on my own so like to keep things fairly simple - I keep telling myself I should throw more dinner parties, maybe I will…
So - who can I tag??