Dec 26 2006
5 things you may not know about me
So Doug Belshaw tagged me in with this ‘5 things about me’ meme. (To be honest since I have been blogging I have learned loads of new words! Meme being one of them. But Google Bomb is my favourite.)
I enjoy playing the guitar. I decided a couple of years back that although I never had any musical tuition as a child, one of my ambitions was to be able to play the guitar. So for about a year I had acoustic guitar lessons with a guy in the local shop to where I work. It was great fun and I got what I wanted - just to be able to play the music I enjoy, strumming away to Oasis and Stereophonics - now I can pick up the guitar and play most songs I like if I have the chords.- I am a “Crunchy Nut” Nut - I love cereal as a supper or snack in the evening at about 8.30pm / 9pm - you can’t beat it with some full fat milk.
- I passed my driving test earlier this year. Surprisingly to just about everyone I know at the beginning of this year I could not drive. For some families it is just part of being 17 and you drive the family runabout - it was never part of my latter teenage years so it passed me by. My wife decided enough was enough and booked me a whole raft of lessons. I can remember back in February getting into the driving seat for the first time on a
windy night, with my driving instructor Simon, feeling pretty scared to be honest. I had my driving test during the first England game of the World Cup when they played Paraguay on the 10th June, so the roads were completely quiet 
lucky me - and I passed. 
I became a dad for the first time this year. At about 10.30pm on April 28th my little angel George was born at home, he is quite simply amazing. Enough said.- I love to cook. Yes although confession number 2 may suggest a fairly simple pallete I nearly didn’t go to university to stick at a summer job in a restaurant as a second chef - and I still love to be cooking something for the family today. For some reason when I cook I am totally engrossed and it helps me to relax.
Well confession time is over - hopefully you now know a little more about me than what you may glean from my ramblings about work.
Now who gets tagged - well…
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Thanks for playing along, Tom - although you should have linked back to me so I didn’t just happen across this post by accident! :-p
We’re having our first child in about two weeks time. I’m scared.
Hi Tom, I was wondering when this might catch up with me. and it appears it is to be sooner rather than later. Congratulations on George and snap on the guitar front. The virtual blog band could happen yet, what with John and Ewan both on drums, though I if I remember right, Ewan told me he is also learning the mandolin…..and I am convibced there must be others…
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[...] I’ve been watching these “five things about me” tag going around and around the blogosphere lately and have enjoyed reading tidbits on everyone’s lives. I especially love the things that are personal and have nothing to do with educational technology - things that are just wow, how interesting! Helen and I were tagged by Silvia Tolisano. So here are my five things… [...]