I'm going to struggle with this ...!

25 "interesting" facts about me ... I have to admit Lorrie (Over there on my blog list thing) tagged me with the 25 fact thing over a week ago, and it's been on my mind ever since - mainly because I'm struggling to think of 25 things. So I warn you now, it may stop at 17 or something ...

1. In the early 90's I appeared on Channel 4's 'Big Breakfast', on a segment called 'Ding dong what's that song'. So if I ever become famous, some researcher somewhere will be pulling the clip for one of those 'Before they were famous' TV shows.
2. My earliest memory is the Summer of 1976. The UK had a drought, and I can remember going to a standpipe with my Dad to get water and carrying back a small bucket worth. By the time I got back to the house I had spilt the lot and was not impressed. I'd have been around 3 years old.
3. I detest roast potatoes, and place the blame firmly at the door of Miss Williams, headmistress at my infant school. She force fed me them one school lunchtime, which then caused a stand-up row between her and one of the lunchtime assistants. I've not touched one since.
4. I have a partially slipped disc in my back, and nerve damage to the C4 and C5 nerves in my spine. No idea how I got it and more often than not it's fine, but when it hurts, IT HURTS!
5. The first concert I ever saw was Level 42 at Wembley Arena in 1989. "Techno pop crap" as my old friend Quinton used to call them ...
6. I first went on a aeroplane when I was 15, when my parents and I flew to Belfast to stay at my sister's house. I kept all the bits from the plane (Menu, napkins etc) for ages after ... My first long-haul flight was 1993, when I went to Portland, Oregon via Sans Francisco.
7. I proposed to Maria on the end of Paignton Pier, on the 15th June 1996. I remember the date as England were playing Scotland in Euro '96 that day! When Paignton Pier was refurbished, my Father-in-law went and got me a bit of the original decking, which is now somewhere in my garages!
8. My first ever football match was Aldershot v Oxford United, and I was taken by my brother-in-law's Dad! I can't remember the score, only that it was a mid-week match.
9. I never met either of my Grandfathers; however I wear my maternal Grandfather's wedding ring as my own wedding ring.
10. Although I can play guitar, bass guitar, and drums, I'm unable to read a note of music. If there's a musical dyslexia, then I have it.
11. I've had a mobile phone since I was 17. It was the size of a house brick with an aerial that was 6 inches long and liable to snap if knocked against anything.
12. On April 5th, I'd have been married for exactly 1/3 of my life.
13. Both my Grandmother's died when I was in America. My paternal grandmother in 1993 (I was in the Camp Kuratli swimming pool when told), and my maternal grandmother in 1994 (I was refitting the Camp Kuratli craft house when told). When I returned to Camp in 1995 , the family all checked their life insurance. (And my Aunt survived a heart attack whilst I was out there!)
14. I have the attention span of a forgetful goldfish. You're lucky I've got this far without going off and doing something else.
15. My favourite drink is chilled water, which I drink by the litre during the working day. I've stopped drinking coffee after 9am which explains why I'm dead on my feet come 8pm.
16. I throw myself into projects, but then the attention span thing kicks in and I get bored. (For example, the 56 churches in London thing .. I think I'll only write about 10 of them!)
17. I own the digital studio that the seminal 'Steps' classic, "5,6,7,8" was written on (US friends, Youtube it), bought from the ex-musical director of the Steps arena tour. I'm yet to do anything with it. Attention span again ...
18. At one point I owned 10 guitars and 4 basses, then I got married. I now have 3 guitars and 2 basses, and very rarely play them.
19. When a child, I wanted to be a stunt man when I was a grown up! Lee Majors and 'The Fall Guy' has a lot to answer for.
20. I love driving. I'll happily drive to Devon and back in a day (A 10 hour round trip) as it gives me time to think.
21. I miss the days of making mix-tapes for the car. Planning out each side of the tape, ensuring that no two songs by the same artist followed each other, and that there was a couple of fast tracks then a couple of slow which was then followed by something loud. And then there was trying to find a song which ran for the correct amount of time so there wasn't a load of silence at the end of the tape!
22. I refuse to use GPS or sat-nav. A map or directions from the AA website do me just fine thank you very much.
23. The first song I ever learnt to play on guitar was Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight'. I taught myself it whilst holed up in a hotel room in Basingstoke for a week, whilst on a course.
24. I rarely sit down to watch TV, that said I have watched the entire 5 seasons of 'House' on my PSP whilst going to and from work, and I'm now working my way through 'The Wire' (Just started season 4!).
25. I find it almost impossible to sleep on trains, plane, or car journies. I can count on one hand the amount of times I've done it in my adult life.

There you go, 25 facts about me ...

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