one good apple

I’ve been tagged by the lovely Jenn who was my first ever swap giftee though god knows why anyone would want to know the following things about me…

La rules,

1. Link to the person that tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

1. I love the smell that comes out of drains when you’re really close to the water level.  This is one of the reasons why I loved Berlin.  My mum and sister went out shopping the other day and caught a whiff of that sewage smell and my mum told Jane, ‘Emily would love that’ and Jane had to phone me up and ask because she didn’t believe it.

2. Having said that, when we used to go to the dump to drop stuff off we used to drive past the sewage works and I would have a panic attack that somehow I would fall in and smell forever like in The Labyrinth and the Bog of Eternal Stench.

3. I was a horrible teenager.  Think about your worst nightmare and double it.  I don’t know how my mum put up with me.  Sometimes when a kid is giving out to me at school I feel like telling them to give up, they’re talking to a professional.  I never swore at my mum though.

4. When we were little we used to have picnics in front of the fire on a Sunday afternoon where we’d toast bread and marshmallow and eat the left over Yorkshire puddings from dinner with golden syrup and watch The Box of Delights or Chronicles of Narnia on the telly.

5. I hate to drive because I can’t look at of the window at the scenery.  I can look at the car in front and the car behind and that’s it.  My drive to work takes forty minutes each way.  That was a smart choice.

6. Even though I’m nowhere near being a fan of Elton John, I can’t listen to Your Song without crying.  It has no association with another place or time or person whatsoever but I still start to well up the second it begins.

Good grief, I’m odder than I thought… I will now tag Mick, who makes scarves that make me jealous, Mandy, my first ever swap gifter, Fatema, my UK Swap giftee and Meg, who made me an amazing scarf for the Miss Marple Swap.  I know I’m meant to pick six.