::When you think you know all about me? Think again!::
100 Things About Me
1 I am 6'2" tall.
2 I am the father of two beautiful girls, Bryony (10) and Katherine (7).
3 I think I am just as important to the children and offer just as much as their mother.
4 I am divorced.
5 Their mother made it as difficult as possible after split to be (3).
6 Its my best achievement that it never worked.
7 I am a Telecommunications Engineer now doing Project Management.
8 I will always wish I had been a rock star instead.
9 I love experiencing different cultures and countries.
10 Music really is oxygen to me.
11 I love dancing.
12 I am a typical Libran, tho don't believe in astrology.
13 I once set a chip-pan on fire at uni and evacuated 250 people out of the building.
14 I have done a tandem parachute jump from 3km up with 30 seconds freefall - goddam what a rush.
15 I can order a curry in Bangladeshi.
16 I have no regrets, just saddness for some things.
17 I believe in 'true'love.
18 I found it once but it couldn't last.
19 I believe I can find it again.
20 I am a good listener.
21 I am a good talker too, I talk about my experiences to try to help people understand themselves.
22 Sometimes people don't realise this.
23 I used to do a lot of Origami, now I can still do some simple folds from memory.
24 Most of my best friends are women.
25 U2 will always be my favourite band, their words touch me.
26 I cannot stand outside and look straight up without falling over.
27 I drive a silver BMW, I like walking up to it more than driving it - I think that is the point of BMWs!
28 I once deliberatley broke an expensive electronic item to claim the insurance.
29 I still feel guilty about that.
30 I didn't like my parents between 18 and 28 - i think they are the best now.
31 I cannot sing at all.
32 I love Karaoke!
33 I had my ear peirced when I was 28.
34 I would like to get a nipple pierced.
35 My only original artistic achievment is my poetry which I started to write 3 months ago.
36 I have an addictive personality.
37 My best ever experience was travelling in Bangladesh for 4 months.
38 My favourite ever book is The Girl In The Swing by Richard Adams.
39 My favourite ever song is Brand New Start by Paul Weller.
40 My favourite film ius Moulin Rouge by a long way, however I have many other second favourites.
41 My favourite meal would be a roast dinner.
42 I can cook.
43 My worst moment was when Katherine got cut on her face - it will scar and I feel terrible.
44 My best moments are watching the girls loose themselves in childish, innocent happiness.
45 I fell for the 'net 3 months ago, I am hooked forever.
46 I once grew a beard - big mistake - for 3 years!
47 I know someone who will leave a huge mark on the world, one day.
48 My claim to fame is meeting Jarvis Cocker at an airport.
49 In my first week at uni I got so drunk I lost 4 hours that I will never get back - on one pint of cider.
50 I lost the same amount of time towards the end of uni, on 10 pints of Newcastle Brown Ale - I needed to!
51 I have had no total memory loss since - tho have been equally foolish.
52 I have three scars, two faint ones on chin from push bike crashes, one on wrist from putting it thru a glass door when being chased by a girl when 13.
53 I have never broken any bones in my body.
54 I never made a proper decision about how my life would turn out until I was 28.
55 I once acted in a school play in just swimming trunks - I did this to obvercome my shyness.
56 I am very forgetful - if it does not take me at least three attempts to leave the house I will have forgotten something.
57 I often forget to go back three times.
58 My favourite ever meal out was in La Piazza, Douglas, Isle of Man, 29-09-01.
59 I never remember names first time but I never forget faces.
60 I once signed a work email 'with love' - by mistake - nothing was said!
61 I often say very embarrassing things!
62 I rarely care very much that I do.
63 I support Portsmouth FC (home town) and Liverpool (earliest football experience '77 European Cup Match)
64 I am not sure relationships are meant to last forever.
65 I would like one too tho.
66 I am not sure exactly what would make me truly happy.
67 Fundamentally I am more insecure and shy than I seem.
68 The way poeple perceive me constantly surprises me, especially if it is positive.
69 I like this number ;-)
70 I once went to Mauritius with work for 6 days to do 2 days worth of work, because of flights - it was cool :))
71 I vivedly remember having lots of nightmares as a young child, they feel like they lasted for weeks.
72 My parents do not remember this.
73 If I could change one thing about me it would be to have a flat stomach - no matter how much I work out I always have a slight paunch.
74 I am terrible with money.
75 I can make the queen smile and frown on a £5 note.
76 I learnt The Owl And the Pussy Cat when I was 10, I still know it.
77 I once pretended to be sick so I could go home from scout camp early.
78 Sandwich of choice is egg mayo with salad on granary.
79 I let my heart rule my head.
80 I think I always will.
81 I cut Katherine's umbilical chord.
82 I went out with someone I worked with for three years and no-one at work new (because she wanted it that way).
83 I went along with it but I didn't agree with it.
84 In a fantasy moment, if I could fall in love with someone famous it would be Nicole Kidman or Kylie Minogue.
85 Sometimes I seem to deliberately ignore the back of my mind trying to remind me of something important.
86 I am not scared to say I don't understand something - ignorance is admitting you want to learn, stupidity is not asking.
87 However I often have an opinion on things I don't know anything about!
88 I can talk about anything, no matter how trivial or inane.
89 I like cryptic crosswords.
90 Apparently I am a terrible flirt.
91 I don't think I am flirting when I (apparently) flirt.
92 My eyes change colour depending on mood/clothing from grey to blue.
93 I like cycling, especially off-road 'mountain' biking.
94 I spent three years without a television.
95 I found this list very hard to do between 64 and 87, just couldn't think of anything interesting.
96 I would like to chnage people's lives, but I don't know how, yet.
97 My motto is 'Happiness is a way to travel not a destination.
98 I have learnt to accept myself - faults and all.
99 This was a hard lesson and sometimes I forget it.
100 I still have much to learn.
