All about me

Stevyn Colgan has tagged me to tell a little about myself. Here goes...

1. Although I am right-handed, I can write equally well, if not better, with my left hand. After some considerable time performing a job that involved a lot of writing, I contracted what I thought was RSI, and taught myself to write left-handed. I now switch from hand to hand as my mood dictates.

2. I once sold a sink plunger to a member of the cast of Upstairs, Downstairs. Whilst working as a Saturday boy in an ironmongers' shop, I sold aforesaid useful item to Jenny Tomasin (who played the unfortunate maid Ruby in the series) who was having problems with her plumbing.

3. I was highly commended in a "twist" competition. As a small child I was taken to Butlins holiday camp at Clacton. It was the first holiday I ever had and I'm pretty sure it was in 1964, as I can remember Lulu's "shout" on the jukebox. I had to do the twist up on stage in front of parents and the Butlin Redcoats. Curiously, I suffered no embarassment, probably because I was only nine.

4. I worked as a stagehand at a production of Spring's awakening by Frank Wedekind at the Cockpit Theatre in London. The cast and crew were taken from my school and our "sister" school in Hammersmith. A production that would have sunk without trace was unexpectedly very well attended. It could be something to do with the News of the World describing it as a "blue sex show." Which, dear reader, it wasn't.

5. I was once a part time fish mender.

6. I am the co-author of the perpetually unpublished Middenshire Chronicles, an account of the history and eventual demise of the smallest county of England. I'll let you make an inspired guess as to the identity of my fellow co-author.

There. That's me. I've yet to tag anyone else as I am so new to this blogging lark that I haven't acquired any avid readers at this time. My search for suitable virtual chums goes on.