8 random facts

Clive Shepherd has invited me to take on this meme of eight random facts.

1. Post these rules before you give your facts.
2. List 8 random facts about yourself.
3. At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them.
4. Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know they’ve been tagged.

Here they are:

1. I can’t ride a bike.
2. I once had a Supercar pilot’s licence signed by Mike Mercury,
   convincing me that the puppet show Supercar was based on real people.
3. I was briefly detained in an Egyptian army camp in the desert.
4. I have webbed feet but am a crap swimmer.
5. I have mingled with rock superstardom: I tripped over a member of
   the Kinks (not Ray) who was drunk and comatose after a gig at Edinburgh
   University.
6. I come from Ayr ‘Wham ne’er a toun surpasses, for honest men and bonnie lassies’ (Burns)
7. I was adopted at birth and now have good relationships with both my birth parents.
8. I’ve never been Chancellor of the Exchequer.

So now I’m passing it on to:

Nelson (http://mellonello.blogspot.com/)

Sid (http://sidsmith.blogspot.com/)

Rosie (http://rosiebell.typepad.com/)

Alan (http://thesemoments.blogspot.com/)

John & Ali (http://impossiblesongs.blogspot.com/)

Lindsay (http://lindsaysrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/)

Mark (http://markgorman.wordpress.com/)

CBQ (http://crispycat-recordings.blogspot.com/)