JUNKY - FINALLY I ANSWERED YOUR TAGG!!
This took me ages to think up... until I walked about holding pen and paper for an hour or so earlier... (blank computer screen engenders psychic blankness in one like me. As my blog so duly testifies...)
1. I have written two books. Both are novels. One is 200,000 words and crap and about 20 MS pages are missing (thanks to an unnamed person who is not me); the other is totally handwritten, untyped and about addiction. I decided not to go ahead with editing it as will write my own memoirs instead
2. I "speak" four languages (arguably) (including English). These are French, German, Welsh and English. The Welsh is only conversational and because I did my secondary education in Welsh Wales where language classes were compulsory!
3. I used to have pet prawns in a fishtank along with fishes, a giant snail and a frog.
4. I once travelled from Carmarthen in West Wales to Marrakech in Southern Morocco and back entirely by train and boat
5. I can touch type a good 60 wpm ++(why? Because I once wanted to be a journalist and knew that whatever career path I followed, computers were the way of the future.. so why not learn to keyboard "properly"??
6. In my life I have been Christian, Hindu (Siddha Yoga), Buddhist, Pagan and back to Christian. Never have I been agnostic, apart from the early days of my heroin love affair
7. Aparently I have the same voice as Usher. (Isn't Usher a rapper? Wow. Big deal then.)
8. I am going to permanently stop using drugs ...
...AND I TAG...
Akelamalu
Audrey
Bimbimbie
Chipper
Jungle Jane
Kahshe Cottager
Merle
Peed off Patricia (Morning Martini)
Puss-in-Boots
Sadgirl
Wayward (Crystal Clean) Son...
and
Welshcakes Limoncello
Rules are: you write out eight random facts about yourself and tag eight others...
I tagged nine* because I wanted to torture Chipper* as well...
*OK I got carried away. And did more than nine...
O! And Roborovski news: I caught Itchy attemptedly raping Spherical again last night... thankfully he is getting very tame (unlike the other two) which is good as he's going to have to live in solitary if too many babies appear. Poor swine. I wonder if he would get on with Chinese? Probably not and I don't want to risk blood and hamster guts on the wood shavings ...
I'm not sure Spherical and Bashful (who is rapidly becoming spherical) are pregnant yet. But they surely will be once Itchy's balls drop (which they haven't yet.) But I know for a fact he is a boy because he has a pink dot and a pink patch. Girls never have any proof positive for being female... just two tiny holes you can bearly see...
So let's "see" what happens ...
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Hey my Google word verification (bc I used to post too much) is "pigorsy"... what a word... Maybe I will pass that name to one of my baby robbies if and when they arrive ...
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TUNE OF THE DAY: Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Somethin' Stupid
entertainment clip: Finding Amy Winehouse... short film by Leeds Uni students ... I've not seen this through myself I have to admit so I'm unsure whether they do find her ..!
What wonderful things to know about you. You are so on track by accentuating the positive and stating you desire with such utter conviction. I keep practicing that myself and bit by bit it is actually working! OK, don't have a job but I feel happy so much more often than I used to.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that the song you have posted "Something Stupid" was a very popular hit in the sixties by Nancy Sinatra... singing duet with her dad, Frank. Probably you know this. Now you know that I know it too!
Cheers, WS
hey YOU got tagged AS WELL so there!! ha ha haaargh!!!
ReplyDeletehaha!
ReplyDeletei love this tag thingie!
btw, u cant imagine, just the other day i was thinking abt this song & kaboom here i see it in ur blog :)
i think its classy, no? :)
I'm back from my holidays! I have so much reading to catch up on, it may take me days!
ReplyDeleteNicole :)
I can rumba to Something Stupid.
ReplyDeleteFancy being able to speak Welsh! Da iawn, bach.
Hi Gleds,
ReplyDeleteI love Robibe Williams and Amy Winehouse. Since Robbie is over here now, I might run into him one day. Amy is in rehab, so I probably won't see her. I don't think they found her either.
That was clever knowing the the keyboard would dictate your future.
Be well.
Oooo tagged am I? I'm game but you will have to wait a couple of weeks until I am back from the cottage! Who knows, I might do something wild and interesting that I can use as one of my random 8 things!! I learned a few new things about you today - pet prawns????
ReplyDeleteHello G, blimey you have got to have the most interesting and diverse eight random things *!*
ReplyDeleteI'm behind with reading your posts but I'm just wondering, are you sure those little furballs you have adopted are not really Tribbles ..... remember what happened on Star Trek Smiles *!*
I liked this meme and its answers !
ReplyDeleteI didn't even know you spoke French ! Eh bien on va pratiquer, hein ?? :$
I like your religious path... Looking for guidance, didn't you !
I find your posts more and more positive. Which is good.
Thinking about you so I stopped by to say Hi.
ReplyDeletePraying for you.
I am glad to hear these things about you. I should be surprised but I am not. I could tell you are a bright man. 4 languages!
ReplyDeleteYou do speak with a very strong conviction on your subjects.
ReplyDeleteI still don't know what my grandfather spoke, he was from East Isley, about hour and a half North East of London, I think. It always just sounded like he had marbles in his mouth to me :)
I've done this one before Gleds and I don't think I could think of Eight more (interesting) Random things about myself, so I'll pass if that's OK. :)
ReplyDeletenote to self: THIS is where I found "man with a (real-looking) tail clip"
ReplyDeletehttp://spanishdancerhs.blogspot.com/
WOW!!!Gleds, your random eight things about yourself are so varied and interesting to say the least :) Great skills and talents,sounds like some wonderful experiences and the courage to explore...Im willing you to grab life with both hands and live the life you deserve,not discounting that it wont be easy..but GO FOR IT!!
ReplyDeleteWill have to think hard about my random things...mentally challenging.. lol x Auds
Edyta: Do YOU want to do the tag as well? Well YOU'RE TAGED THEN!! HA HA HAAARGH!!
ReplyDeleteNicole: Hope you had a good one... I will come by again I know you weren't posting while you were away ...
Liz: O righto! Fi'n siarad Cymraeg fferm yn wir
Alexys: Knowing the keyboard would dictate my future.. o yeah I would have hated to be cursed with having to spend the rest of my life looking down as I typed that must get so exhausting/boring... that's why you can tell when I've copied something out... it's full of mistakes bc I'm looking at the handwritten copy rather than the screen... usually I type looking at the screen it means I'm very mistake-free (usually) ... actually I was surprised more people didn't see ahead as I did ... my brother did... the shrink the other day told me I have a very preemptive mindset and treat life like a game of chess.... well it IS just like a game of chess... just as the characters of the chessboard say it's so ...
ReplyDeleteKahshe: Pet prawns... yeah they were freshwater shrimps... sold as live goldfish food but if you put them in with diddy fish they just live on as the fish are too little to attack them...
Bimbimbie: On Star Trek..? No... but I think I can imagine what you're thinking... they do kind of look a bit like space aliens ... and they certainly treat me as if I am one ...
Zhu: Oui. Ca c'est par-ce-que je ne suis plus deprime
ReplyDeleteSharon: Hi!
M-filer: Hmmm bright? Usually articulate. Not always clever though.
Junky: A Mouthfull of marbles? Someone (who had half a Danish family) once told me the Danish language sounded like a crowd of people trying to talk with mouthsfull of jelly and potatoes ... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteAkelamalu: That's fine I'm just surprised more people I tagged hadn't done it before... as I rather unoriginally said before this tag has indeed done the rounds like a dose of the venerials among college kids ...
Audrey: Yes it IS mentally challenging trying to think up the eight things ... took me two days to come up with any halfdecent answers .....
Right. Thanks Gleds, I think, for the eight randoms. You could be sorry...but then you could be bored out of your brain.
ReplyDeleteI like NK & RW's version of that song...but I do like any song Robbie Williams sings. Quite the fan I am of the young fellow (well he's young compared with me).
Sounds like you're going to have a population explosion in your hamster population sometime soon...heheh!
'Ave a good weekend!
Hi Gleds ~~ Good post and I liked your eight random things. I will try to post mine in a day or so.
ReplyDeleteI loved the Nicole Kidman (an Aussie)
and Robbie Williams singing together
I have heard it many times, but hadn't seen the video. Thanks for that. Take care, my friend, Merle.
number 8 is the one i like!
ReplyDeletesmiles, bee
Puss-in-Boots :Hamster explosion... hmmmmmm I know.... Robbie Williams has a brilliant voice... not overly acrobatic like a lot of women singers but I know it's good: I've heard him live (on television) and he put in a performance exactly the same as he sings on disc which is really quite something. I am sure the eight things will NOT be boring!
ReplyDeleteMerle :Isn't the video fantastic? They really got that 1940s technicolour thing right, don't you think??...
Empress :Yep and when I stop I stop forever. Never going back to that crap again
Oh, god! I love that song "Something Stupid" too! You could still be a journalist, Gleds and an excellent one. You are young - you can be anything you want! I know you'll keep to no 8 and I also know it ain't easy. xx
ReplyDeleteWelshcakes: I also learnt shorthand once when I was determined to give up smoking... a job was going in a music magazine for "clubbing correspondent" ... wow! I thought: that was a job for me! Then I realized a dictaphone would barely work in a nightclub so I would HAVE to learn shorthand... so I did... rather badly though...
ReplyDeleteAlso I forgot to mention how many spelling mistakes I make in my typing! Unfortunately though I did learn on an ancient electric typewriter, I only learnt speed on a computer keyboard... which forgives all sorts of things a typewriter would not!
Many thanxx for the best regards.... Have a great weekend...