Thanks to Eva who tagged me for this meme. Six random things about me: now to try to think of things a bit different that I haven't already talked about a lot, without getting too personal - here goes.
Random thing 1: As it has felt like summer recently: I can't stand beach holidays. I find the idea of laying in the sun for hours at a time quite deadly dull; I could take it for maybe a lazy hour, but a week? Forget it. The idea of lots of reading time is attractive but I'd rather not be on a beach to do that, but at home with easy access to the kettle for cups of tea. For holidays I prefer to be in a city, with galleries, museums and churches to visit, and some good restaurants afterwards.
Random thing 2: I have a tattoo - a solar eclipse in black, red and yellow done ten years ago and still looking quite good, mainly because, as above, I am not a sun-worshipper, so it hasn't faded much. I never did any sort of biology at school and therefore have no idea how the tattoo stays put on my arm when I thought all our cells died and were replaced on a regular basis. I'm going to go for the 'it's magic' explanation.
Random thing 3: I once mentioned how I have a favorite one of Heff's girlfirend's, being an avid (and slightly ashamed) fan of Girls of the Playboy Mansion - but I have to update it. It was Holly, but now it's Bridget. She seems the most sorted and likeable. And she has a cat.
Random thing 4: I'm a vegetarian, and have been for eighteen years now, but don't really like that many vegetables. This can be a problem. I think it may be that I wasn't exposed to many more than potatoes, carrots, cauliflower and peas (which I hate- they are the devil's pellets) as I grew up. I'm always happy to try new things and have discovered some vegetables over the years such as aubergines that I do like though. However, I do like green vegetables such as cabbage and brussels sprouts, as does my husband which is lucky and probably quite strange.
Random thing 5: I hate purple. Don't know why, I just think it is a horrible colour and cannot understand why so many people paint their walls with it. Ugh.
Random thing 6: I collect cartoons and caricatures from the 1800s, by people such as John Leach, George Cruikshank and Robert Seymour. I don't have that many, maybe twenty or so or so picked up over the years. The collection's on hold at the moment as most are in boxes while the DIY-machine takes over the house, but as soon as the rooms start coming together I will be hunting out more through the power of Ebay. I find them charming to look at but they can also be an interesting insight into life before photography. They often depict ordinary people's lives, the sort of things that weren't captured by the great artists of the day. My favourite is one by Robert Seymour of a gent ordering a plate of veal and ham in a chophouse - I love the view of a typical restaurant and waiter (making allowances for caricaturing of the people, of course) that this shows.
This has been going round the blogosphere so I'm not going to tag anyone specific - anyone who feels like sharing, though, consider yourself tagged!
2 comments:
Very interesting! I loved your "it's magic" explanation for your tattoo. :D
It's an explanation I find useful for a lot of scientific questions, as someone who dropped all science and maths subjects as quickly as I could at school.
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