8 random facts meme

Clive Shepherd and  Lynn Wernham have both tagged me for the 8 random facts meme.  (Of course, these facts are chosen, and so are never truly random.)

First, apparently, you have to post the rules, then reveal all. Here are the rules:

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.

And now the eight (not very) random facts about me:

1. At 1.86 m, 6′ 1″, I am about the right height to be a soccer goal keeper, which I am when time allows. After each game the recovery takes a little longer.
2. I always decide quickly when handed a menu.
3. Both my parents are left handed. None of their 4 children is.
4. I weep at the misuse of apostrophes, and the words unique, disinterested and decimate.
5. The only food I don’t eat: the gooseberry.
6. I lived in Istanbul for 5 years. Sadly, my Turkish is now pretty rusty.
7. My best time on the Cresta Run (from junction) is 54 seconds.
8. My middle name (the ‘H’) is a constant source of humour to others, and will remain a secret.

This is probably the last meme I will do, as I can’t believe that I am interesting enough to warrant another.  Karyn Romeis has an interesting thread on this.

I am tagging the following, some of whom I know well, and some hardly at all:

1. Red Sultana
2. Nigel Paine
3. Julia Huntsman
4. Ev Nucci
5. Hans Feldmeier
6. Blogpond
7. Donald Clark
8. Norman Lamont