I've been tagged by psychostace, so I suppose I'd better get on

[wellinghall]

1. My best bowling figures are 3 for 8.

2. I took Tripos papers in three different languages - two modern and one mediaeval.

EDIT: Okay, hands up if you spotted the deliberate error? Who invented copy-and-paste, that's what I want to know. So ...

2a. I got Johnny Ball's autograph.

3. Until 21, I (and my parents) were pretty hard up. Then I went into what (by my standards) was a well-paying job.

4. I'd like to learn Old English.

5. At the age of 36, I grew an inch in six months.

6. I was the only one in my O level class to pass French.

7. We've got eight different English-language first edition Silmarillions.

8. At school, I played cricket with someone who later became an international fast bowler.

9. I have been a passenger on the world's shortest scheduled flight.

10. I've just come off a 40-minute phone call with head office and the auditors. (Can you tell I was having difficulty thinking of a decent no 10?)

Comments

[tovaglia.livejournal.com]

How did you manage to grow an inch at the age of 36?

[emperor]

Viagra.

[emperor]

[Sorry]

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Bah, who needs Viagra? ;-)

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Sideways? ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh, more than an inch sideways! 13 stone 20 years ago, 11 stone when I went in, 9 stone when I came out, 14 stone now.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It is truly bizarre. It happened after my op* (intussusception, causing a necrotised and perforated bowel, followed by laprotomy and small bowel resection).

I guess that I hadn't been digesting my food properly for years before that, but I really don't know.

*Other bizarre effects include susceptibility to extremes of temperature, night sweats, and car sickness; all of which started within a day or two of the op.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

And inability to drink more than a pint without getting drunk.