*Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.*
(HT: Alastair)

1. Despite being really into baking myself, my favourite cake is still my mum’s rendition of Irish Tea Brack
2. I find programming as entertaining as a good book
3. When I was 4, my parents went on holiday with my brother. They flew to Spain. I prayed their plane wouldn’t crash into a mountain
4. I have never paid for a haircut
5. My great-grandfather was the inventor of the Aldis Lamp.
6. My first memory is of a black pig in a farm near Worcester
7. I miss talking to people who study humanities
8. When I was 8, I was only allowed 20 minutes a day playing computer games. This law was not rigorously enforced however, and by 10 I could remember the complete walkthroughs for every LucasArts adventure game.
9. I climbed Crib Goch in the snow with no grip on my shoes.
10. I once knocked over most of the shelves in my school library
11. If I can’t solve a maths problem, I feel physical discomfort.
12. When I was a wee lad, I used to draw fighter planes, tanks and military bases for a world domination force simply dubbed ‘Boom’. I used to draw pictures for it every day when I arrived back from school. When I was about 10 or 11, I destroyed most of them, but I remember Ally salvaging some. Perhaps they are still somewhere in his room
13. I wrote a play about Paris, Helen and the seige of Troy when I was 10. Again, all evidence destroyed, although I do have witnesses
14. I was Malvolio in a High School play. I still use the yellow stockings to keep my feet warm at night
15. Since moving to London, I have discovered how enjoyable it is to browse second-hand bookshops.
16. I can see exactly why my dad is a train-spotter, and expect I would be one too if I was his age.
17. I find Cricket more entertaining than football, although that really isn’t saying much.
18. I was Dopey in a primary school rendition of Snow White.
19. My first primary school teachers all took me for hearing tests due to my extreme selective hearing.
20. My Skype name is peterandthegoose and I have a SkypePhone. Add me!
21. When I first moved to Stoke, I was in the church’s youth group where my dad was a Pastor. Tom Morrow (who ran it with his wife, Chris) was saying that Nazareth was a terrible place to come from, and asked where we would hate to come from. I said ‘Stoke’. As the new Pastor’s kid, I think that was a bit of a surprise to them.
22. I once had a broken arm (greenstick fracture) for more than a month without a cast. During this time, I fell over skateboarding, climbed a waterfall and played ball games. It corrected itself, and I am thankful I didn’t have the weak, sweaty arm that others have had to deal with for the same ailment.
23. At five years old, I was in one of the famous palaces of Europe (cannot be more specific, it was Eurocamp, and I was five). We went into the main hall. I remember thinking the decorations were too extravagant and garish, and stated loudly that it was disgusting and I would have hated to live there.
24. At that time, I could remember all the JCB model numbers.
25. Alastair sponsored my silence for two or three days during my childhood

There musn’t be more than 5 readers of this blog, and if you have read this far, you are tagged! Link back to this post, thanks.

The only person I would like to tag specifically is Jack Davis, because he studies Philosophy and doesn’t have a blog for his musings. Surely that’s not right.

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