Random Tag: 6 Quirks

I have been randomly tagged by Deepali and decided to play along, as I'm all blogged, raced and virused out and being told what to write is just what I need at the moment. I'm also half blogging and half watching England losing to Wales (rugby), which is saddening, as I will shortly receive a text from a Welsh friend who seems to get in touch only whenever Wales stuff England. C'est la vie....

Here're the groundrules, should you wish to play...

Rules on blog and links as appropriate. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself. Tag six random people and let them know they've been tagged.

No surprizes there, then.

Of course, being a deeply dull person, I have no interesting quirks or characteristics, so you'll have to make do with the following...

• I can't hold a pen properly. Even my boss attempts to wind me up over the way I hold writing implements.
  
• I take great delight in inspecting my callouses. It's good to see how they're progressing - I've worked hard for them, and they're incredibly useful in preventing blisters, and tidying them up gives me something to do in otherwise dull meetings.
  
• My left groin is far, far more stretchy than the right one. No, I have no idea why this is.
  
• I can't use a pit latrine if I know it contains a frog. Latrines over-run with cockroaches are, on the other hand, perfectly usable.
  
• I've always had difficulty with the number six.

My randomish nominated taggees are: (do please consider these nominations - I am more than aware that some people hate tags with a passion which I reserve only for the opposition on race day).

Kahless: Not a total random, of course, we job-share the awesome responsibility of Nerd Deity. Unfortunately, all our followers disappeared shortly after we took up our appointments. (It was during my watch, I'm afraid...)

I would have tagged Random Reflections for the obvious reason, but she's randomly tagged out. So, instead, I have pre-delegated the tag to titration. Titration got stuck with the nomination for three reasons - I did endless titrations (in both senses, though you may have to be a chemist to get the second meaning) in a previous job and finding a blog entitled titration which I found I actually wanted to read was thus rather incredible; secondly, I was heartily relieved to find that this was, in fact, a reference to titration as I understood and remembered it (an analytical methodology), and not a blog about the trials and tribulations of underfed sucklings...; and thirdly, it's an interesting read.

Ruby: To the best of my knowledge, Ruby might find this a challenge, being illiterate and having oversized paws which makes it difficult to type. I'm hoping that a period of intensive training, some voice-recognition software, a Boxer-English dictionary, the loan of a blog for the day, and possibly the help of a sympathetic owner might conspire to make this possible...

Veda: Because I feel the need to strike a blow for the much maligned owners of straight hair.

Signs: Not really a random, but I do feel rather guilty at having pinched your excellent name for a rather cheap shot at a post. (Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls, and all that.) So, tagging you as a pseudo-random is the least I can do to make amends...

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P.S. Is it just me who found tagging randoms to be a bit like playing blind man's buff in an unfamiliar location with a bunch of people who might just thump you if you stumble into them?

P.P.S. I'm also going to belatedly tag Kindablue, who is currently giving the impression of having been abducted by potentially hostile extra-terrestrial lifeforms. (I would describe them as terrifying aliens, but fear tpe may use such words as evidence against me...)