I had a go at one of these blog chain mail things called memes a while back. I won’t do it again, tagging other people, but the topics can be good inspiration for interesting writing. If anyone likes this one they can link back to me with their own effort.
1) I can wiggle my nose. Not side to side like Samantha in Bewitched, but sort of nostril twitching.
2) I have only ever broken one bone in my body. That was the pinky toe on my left foot when I was 15 years old, playing football in the hallway with a sock.
3) After watching Dead Poet’s Society in 1989 my girlfriend at the time and I drove an hour from the cinema in Morwell to the nearest snow-covered mountain (Mt St Gwinear). It was rather romantic until a caretaker mistook us for some lost skiers and came looking for us with a torch.
4) I am allergic to cattle and horses, especially ungroomed animals in saleyards or at the racetrack. This was career threatening when I was a reporter for “Stock and Land”.
5) I think ASIO might have checked me out when I made a small donation once to the Sinn Fein weekly An Phoblacht. I applied for a housing loan shortly afterwards and the bank manager was surprised that someone had just done a credit check on me.
6) I play cards left handed and eat with a spoon left handed. I can bowl in cricket left arm and right arm, but use my right hand for almost everything else.
7) I was detained in a Malawi police station for several hours after accidentally driving up to the gates of President Banda’s palace in Blantyre.
8 ) I have never smoked marijuana or taken any illegal drug.
