Should Have Run Faster

I've been tagged, (note to self........learn to run faster, lol),  the lovely Jo over at  Through the keyhole  has set eleven fiendishly probing questions, and I must answer honestly (ho,hum) and to the best of my knowledge.

But first rules must be posted and obeyed.

1/    Post these rules

2/    Answer 11 questions from the person who tagged you

3/    Create 11 questions for the people you tag

4/    Tag 11 people and link them to your post

5/   Let them know you tagged them

I'm a bit of a rebel, and rules were meant to be broken..........so blah to the rules........but I will answer Jo's questions, after all I did coerce her into sock yarn buying, so it's the least I can do....

1/    What is your earliest memory?
     
Cor blimey Jo........you're asking a menopausal woman here, I can't remember what colour socks I put on this morning unless I look at my feet..............I vaguely remember being about three years old and toddling around under tables at a family gathering and finishing off all the dregs of boozy drinks from any glasses within reach..............apparently  my mother informed me that I slept for twelve hours solid and woke up grumpy and out of sorts.......not surprised really!


2/    Who would you hate to be stuck in a lift with?

Now this is easy................my bank manager..............I would not be responsible for my actions.........I'm sure bank managers speak a different language to the rest of us mere mortals.


3/    What is your favourite food?

If you've read my blog for any amount of time you will notice how often I make references to crystallised ginger...........I have been known to eat a 400g bag in one sitting (I may have some sort of problem here)...........and throw in a bag of milky bar white chocolate buttons and I'm in seventh heaven...........what a shocking revelation, I'm duly shamed.


4/    What was the first record you ever bought?

Don't snigger, but I have a feeling it may well have been Benny Hill's  'Ernie (he drove the fastest milkcart in the west)................I'm passionately hoping it was Freda Payne's 'Band of Gold'.


5/    What's the first thing you do when you get out of bed?

Put me false teeth back in (I jest) .....usually I dive straight back in again, if I get the chance............it's blooming cold here in the mornings.........then crawl under the bed among the dust bunnies to find my slippers which I randomly kicked off the night before..........if I'm feeling particularly lazy I send OH under the bed to look for them instead..........he's a love!

6/    What was your first job?

I had a Saturday job at the grand old age of 13 in our local 'Butter Market' on the fruit and veg stall...............on my first day I weighed out ten lbs of apples, (it took me blooming ages) and when I handed all the paper bags full of apples over to the customer she smugly informed me that she had only wanted ten, not ten lbs.....................evil woman had watched me weigh them all out too.


7/    Who is your favourite author?

Agatha Christie.............................I have a burning desire to be Miss Marple, sitting in the lounge of some big posh hotel with one eye on my knitting  while solving the mystery of who murdered my bank manager.


8/    If you could go anywhere in the world on holiday, where would it be?

There's no doubt in my mind...............I would buy a 'home from home' campervan (decked out with chintzy floral curtains and cosy crochet blankets) and tour our beautiful country................there are so many wonderful sites still to see and places to visit..................I'm definitely a homebird.


9/    Do you have a party trick?

I can belt out a mean karaoke of  'Ernie-he drove the fastest milkcart in the west', when required...........or there's always my famous 'tea on the knee balancing' trick, seen  here.


10/    Will you be watching the 2012 Olympics?

Sadly only from the sidelines, I would have loved to have been a torch bearer but it was not to be..................I shall enjoy watching from the comfort of second best sofa with tea on my knee and knitting in hand............cheering on Blighty!


11/    Do you have any bad habits?

I'm not sure I like this question Jo...........OH would say that he hates that I keep putting the toilet lid down........but then I hate that he keeps leaving it up (why do men do that)..............I suppose OH would also say that I should stop kicking my slippers under the bed at night...............he does not enjoy his early morning belly slide amongst those. dust bunnies.


That's me done then...................being the lazy so and so that I am,  I'm not sending this taggy thing on it's merry way...........but of course if any of you lovely readers feel you'd like to reveal a few interesting facts about yourselves then take this tag and do what you will.............yes, go have some fun.

Just to finish, the lovely Alix over at  Used To Bees  also gave me the award of 'Versatile Blogger'............must be something to do with my knee balancing trick, (no....that's flexible......is there such an award as 'The Flexible Award'..........and if not maybe I should send one out into the blogisphere........imagine the sorts of facts that may be revealed about our fellow bloggers).

Anyway, thank you for the award Alix, very much appreciated, but as I have recieved this award before..........and the fact of me being a lazy so and so, I will direct you to  this post  here where seven more, hopefully entertaining facts, can be found.

Phew..........I'm exhausted...........pass me that crystallised ginger.

lily x