The Six Random Things Meme

Simon Jones has tagged me for a meme thingy. I don't like memes and only do them to avoid offending very nice people – like Simon – and Brodie – who done this to me last year. So here's the deal. I'll do it but I'm not going to tag another 6. Anyway like Simon I have a limited range of blog-friends and certanly couldn't reach 6 as yet unmemed bloggers.

The rules are

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them. (Sorry cannae dae that)
5.
Let each person know they've been tagged and leave a comment on their
blog. (Cannae dae this either)
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Now. Six random things about myself…….

1. I once learned to dance the sailor's hornpipe as part of the 1965 Lanark Lanimer Day parade, and our entry (Romance through the Ages) won the whole shebang and I got my name and photo in the Carluke Gazette complete with sailor's uniform and shoulder length hair!! Just so you don't think that was a fluke – I was also a Peer in our school production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe and I can still sing most of the songs – for a credit crunching fee.
2. I have been a lifelong fan of Country & Western Music and have actually listened to and enjoyed Little Jimmy Dickens singing "Sleeping at the foot of the bed", Hank Snow's nasal twang wailing through "Hobo Bill's Last Ride", and some even sadder crooner singing "May the bird of paradise fly up your nose. But I also bought and played till it was unplayable Johnny Cash's San Quentin Live Concert, same singer's Man in Black Album and now enjoy a whole slew of female progressive country artistes but not saying who – except Mary Chapin Carpenter.
3. My first car cost £50, and was a ford anglia which was so rusted it needed two new doors a new bonnet, bootlid and new sills. The bonnet was blue, the boot lid was silver, the sills were black, two doors were brown and the rest of the car was scarlet. It was stolen in Glasgow and I had to give a description to the police who wondered why anyone would bother stealing it – or reporting it stolen!
4. I think a land flowing with Chai Tea Latte would be just as enticing as a land flowing with milk and honey.
5. I am going on Monday to Edinburgh to see the newly discovered Caravaggio of Jesus Calling Peter, as part of the Baroque exhibition. While there I'm having lunch with my daughter, retrieving my car and doing a wee book shop crawl.
6. Against the current cultural stream, and despite much benign and well intentioned persecution, I still like wearing a tie even if I don't have to as part of the traditional power dressing game. Probably says something about my well known insecurity and reserved, perhaps even shy, disposition……..

Promised I wouldn't tag anyone, but I've enjoyed the spur of the moment oddity of doing this.