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

[emperor]

2) is that unusual amongst MML students? [which 3?]
4) I knew a bit of OE at one point, but I've doubtless forgotten it all now :/
9) I just watched a youtube video of that - cool! The shortest I've been on is Glasgow International to (and later from) Stornoway.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

4) I "knew" quite a bit of Latin and German once but not now...methinks my school would have been better off teaching us one language thoroughly rather than getting us through 3rd year exams at which point I promptly forgot it all (and apparently I am not the only one). My French is still there a bit, but that's cos I started it in primary school.