Ten things

I have been tagged in a meme.  I love a good meme and Mummypinkwellies has thrown me over the challenge of telling you ten things you don’t know about me.

As I am very old in blogging years and I blog a lot, about every damn thing that happens to me, I find it hard to believe that there are still ten things that you don’t know about me that I would be comfortable to share with you.

Nevertheless, as I am waiting for the washing machine to finish so I can put the laundry out before I go to bed, now seems like an excellent time to think of some stuff.

I know I’ve done this meme before, so if I’ve told you any of this previously you are allowed to cut me some slack.

1. I have a comfort blanket, like Linus from Peanuts.  I have had one ever since I was a baby. It is not the same one, as it wore out in fairly short order, but it has the same spirit. I sleep with it. It helps a little with the raging nightmares and teeth grinding anxiety.  I still get them, but I get them worse when I don’t have my blanket.  It seems a small price to pay.
2. I don’t like long fingernails on men. I find it slightly disturbing and creepy. Sorry if I have just offended any long fingernailed male readers.  My first thought is always ‘cokehead’. My second: ‘Ewwww.’
3. I always wanted to be called Lisa when I was a kid. I didn’t thank my parents at all for calling me Katy. It seemed like a weird name.  Then I grew to love it.
4. I was once questioned by police when they were doing a house to house check because a lady on the next street along got murdered.  This was when I lived in Oxford.  They got very, very excited when I told them I had walked past her house on the night in question. Sadly I was as drunk as a newt when I  had gone past and was so drunk I could remember absolutely nothing useful whatsoever, bent as I was on not falling in the canal and drowning myself.
5. I once had to find twelve antique chairs on a wet Saturday afternoon in Lampeter, mid Wales, when the touring company the head of English at my university had booked to delight us with their rendition of Under Milk Wood, turned up without props.  The whole thing was a nightmare of epic proportions, ending with the extremely rotund gentleman who played Captain Cat splitting the seat of his chair and buggering it up royally.
6. I used to have a mortal fear of pontoon bridges when I was small. I was convinced I was going to fall between the slats and drown to death.
7. I won a £60 scholarship at university writing an essay on why sex on television is not good for you.  Mine started: ‘Sex on television is not good for you because they are very narrow and slippy and you are quite likely to fall off during intercourse and do yourself a nasty injury.’
8. When I lived in Germany I got so drunk at a very terrible ball that I staggered outside to throw up, got lost and ended up walking home in total drunken bewilderment.  My poor friend Kate, who I was sharing a flat with at the time, and who I had gone to the ball with in the first place, was utterly convinced I had been murdered and requested the emergency services search for me.  They sent a fire engine.  By this point I was passed out, stone drunk on my air mattress in our flat.  She nearly divorced me the next day.
9. I had a poltergeist experience staying in an inn in the Liguria in Italy on my honeymoon with UE. It scared the living crap out of me and I didn’t sleep a wink all night.  He on the other hand, slept like the proverbial dead, and was of no use to me whatsoever.
10. When I was a child one of my ambitions was to swim the channel. Now my ambition is to never swim the channel. So far I am doing really well at it.

And that’s all folks.

If you want to do this meme, I would be delighted. Let me know by sticking a comment in the box and I’ll come over and read all about it.

In the meantime I am off to poke the laundry.