Six Things About Me

I have been tagged by Beweaver. The guidelines are:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

This is harder than I thought it would be - what on earth to say? Oh well, here goes:

1) I love the English language. It is a fascinating melange of different influences from all over the world, probably because we are a nation that is superb at assimilating other cultures (maybe we should be called The Borg rather than the British). We have so many words to describe one thing that it gives us the subtlety and nuance that just doesn't exist in other tongues. I try to do justice to this wonderful language, though I know there are times I fail.

2) Before I left school I didn't really have much idea of what I wanted to do. Careers advice failed me as I didn't fit into the mould of wife, nurse, teacher or secretary and the Mistress blenched when I said that either being a rock drummer, a long distance lorry driver or a Madame sounded much more interesting. I didn't become any of those things; a singular lack of musical talent, the inability to pass my driving test for years and no inclination to learn the business from the ground up prevented me!

3) Because I have travelled a lot (I left England at 7 weeks old!) I can speak a bit of many languages including Finnish, Swahili, Arabic and Portuguese.

4) I am a vagrant at heart and love to travel; my life has been motivated by wanderlust and I have seen amazing places like the Angel Falls, Victoria Falls and up-country Botswana.

5) I did a bungee jump at a big biker convention. I did it for charity, but drew the line at bungeeing naked despite large cash inducements.

6) I like ducks. A neighbour has ducks and I often hear them quacking at each other, sometimes sounding like they're having a squabble. There's something soothing about the sound of ducks - I want my own small badling of ducks - that would be so great.

And now to tag some others. I enjoy reading:

Somerset Seasons
Wooly Shepherds Diary
Bee-Leaf
Meanderings Along Ancestral Pagan Paths
Hecate
The Pigslip

You are all tagged!