From me to you

The nice woman at Option adoption tagged me with the 7 random facts meme. As it so subtly suggests in the name I guess it means that we have to reveal 7 facts about ourselves before passing the fun onto someone else.

The rules are:

• Link to the person who tagged you
• Post the rules here
• Share 7 random or weird facts about yourself
• Tag 7 random people at the end of the post, linking to them
• Leave a comment on their blog so that they know they’ve been tagged (not anonymously!!)

I’ve found this difficult but here are 7 random facts few people know about me:

1. I’ve never played a round of golf [and don't intend to start anytime soon]
2. I was once involved in a bar-room brawl. It really was like an old Western with tables going over and drinks flying everywhere. And yes, you guessed it: I was the guy heading for safety behind the bar
3. The most uncomfortable places I’ve ever slept have been a field next to a railway line [the stones dug into my back something terrible] and a roundabout at the end of a dual carriageway [highway]
4. The worst job I ever had involved using a box cutter knife to cut out the handles of plastic 5-litre bottles like those used for oil or petrol as they came out of massive, broiling moulding machines
5. The best job involved a weekend in Venice at the Hotel Danieli, which often finds itself listed in the world’s top 10
6. I once mistook the actress Joanna Lumley for a friend of mine and confused her by asking how Paul Smith was these days
7. Some people say they can’t sing. I truly can’t. My vocalisations were once described as the ’song of the blue whale on its last legs’ [not to mix a metaphor or anything]

I’m tagging Reluctant blogger and Dayzofrain. I would tag more people but I’m new at this and don’t have too many friends yet.