Not that I don't want to, but I got tagged as 1 of 10 lucky people by

to do this journal thingamabob. Anyway, I haven't done a journal for a while, so this will fit the bill, it will. There were rules but I've lost them. They went something along these lines:
1:Write ten things about yourself.
2:Tag ten people
3: No tag backs.
4:There was a fourth one.
Anyway, here goes nothing, as they apparently say.
1: I went to a maths camp for a week last March. I shared a room with an Irish boy whose name escapes me and I learned all about the Enigma machines employed by the Nazis during WWII and how Alan Turing managed to break down the de-coding process. That actually really does float my boat.
2: Sometimes I wake up in the night to find I've been sleeping on my arm and the circulation has stopped, and it's like having a dead arm attached to your body. Also it can't feel things and once it hit me in the face as I tried to move it. Eventually it comes too, and it's exactly the same sensation as putting on a pair of merrygold rubber gloves.
3: I am related to David Lloyd George, Prime Minister during WWI. The end of it. He was the cousin of my Gran's great, great auntie's husband.
4: I didn't like music until about a year ago, I only liked film scores with chanting like Jerry Goldsmith's Omen trilogy. This is because I can't pick out the words in songs. Unless I listen to songs many times or read the lyrics, it's just noise to me. I found out recently that that's just me.
5: I am AB+. That means I have both an A protein and a B protein and also the Recess gene in my blood. I've given blood twice despite the fact that my blood is useless to anyone other than my fellow AB+'s, which make up about 3% of people. However I can accept blood from any of you!
6: I'm running out of things...Hmm... Oh yes! I had a near death experience the other week when a drunk car almost colided with me while I was walking the dog. It made a big hole in the wall 3m from where I was standing and then slid towards me.
7: I love my dog lots. Her name's Megan and she's a mongrel of breeds, comprising of bits of Jack Russel, whippet, collie and possibly dalmatian. She's like the Frankenstein of dogs, because she's cross-eyed and pees in her sleep.
8: I live in a semi detached house on a mountain/big hill that used to be a chapel 200 years ago. Now it's my house and I've lived here all my life. There are graves under the garden where I play.
9: 9 is my favourite number. Any combination of 9's will do me.
10: I need a real belter for the last one...hmm... Ok, this isn't about me, but you know Dilaphosaurus, the dinosaur that kills the fat man in Jurassic Park with the fan and venom? Well I only just found out that they had neither fans nor venom. And they were bigger. And they lived in the Jurassic, which was the crap dinosaur times. All the exciting stuff happened in the cretacious. It's been my favourite dinosaur since I was 3.
Anyway, that's me in a media-friendly sound bite. Now it's your turn, victims.









