25 Random things about me

25 Random things about me

1. I am a Scottish Laird. The title is real and hereditary. I won it on a Radio Show on BBC Radio 2 hosted by Steve Wright, along with a load of other goodies.
2. I am the second eldest of 8 siblings – people had big families in those days as we didn’t get telly till 1962.
3. I worked for 41 years in and around the UK public transport industry, latterly for a company which specialized in public transport cartography )e.g. London Underground Map. This took me all over UK and Ireland.
4. I am a published author. Used to like sci-fi (and won a prize for it) but my novel is historical fiction and involves some ancestors. It is called Letter from Poitou and I welcome comments on it.
5. I am useless at thinking up 25 random facts about me.
6. I vastly prefer radio to television. The majority of tv is vaccuous garbage. Radio is very intimate and I think it is a much superior medium.
7. I am a music fanatic and have a very wide taste in artists and genres. Huge collection of cds.
8. My brother’s band Melys won John Peel’s Festive Fifty vote in 2000 ahead of a little known band called the White Stripes.
9. I am a good cook and will poison anyone who disagrees with that statement.
10. My favourite food is Indian and we try to eat it once a week at least – chilli rules, ok?
11. I hold a full bus driving license which I have had since 1984 and I am proud of this professional qualification.
12. I enjoy blogging and micro-blogging and am currently undergoing addiction tratment for Twitter!
13. It’s getting harder to think up random facts.
14. I am a size 36 waist (in my dreams!) More to get hold of.
15. Since my hair started thinning on top I have got into the habit of having it cut very short.
16. I have a dog called Willow who is the reason I get up early and we go looking for squirrels and foxes. She is not aware it is illegal to hunt foxes with dogs in UK and will probably end up with the fox’s lawyer taking out an injunction.
17. I have been married (to the same woman) for 35 years. We have two daughters (and one grandaughter on the way, due St. Patrick’s Day), one dog, and one cat, though not necessarily in that order.
18. I am fanatical about the correct use of apostrophes in sentences. Incorrect use can induce a fit of apoplexy. Sad, innit?
19. Getting near the end now, only 6 to go. See, my math’s half-decent, too.
20. I type too quickly and make many typos.
21. The City Centre we live close to (Hanley) is the highest city centre above sea level in the UK at over 800 feet.
22. I love real coffee and can only tolerate instant as a warm, wet fluid if I’m too lazy or traumatized to make the real stuff.
23. I drink tea black with no sugar which makes many people wrinkle their noses in disgust.
24. Red wine, Shiraz or similar, is my favourite alchoholic drink, along with whisky, gin, brandy, Cointreau – shall I go on?
25. I love beer, but it doesn’t love me, as the old man would have said.