TEN THINGS PROMPT

Ten Things About Me

Some things you could have guessed

… some, not so much …

I never thought I’d do a story like this — I’m not good at writing about myself. I can write about my dog or my neighbourhood or my art or my writing, but am shy of writing about myself.

However, I thought I’d try it with this ‘Ten Things You Don’t Know About Me’ idea because I can pick and choose and don’t have to explain everything and because I was tagged a few times.

Even the photo above is the only one I’ve ever let out into the wild. Although, to be fair, that’s partly because my house has currently got about four and half houses worth of stuff in it and Dog knows where all my photos are …

Anyway — ten things:

1. My ears were pierced in Copenhagen

I’d wanted my ears pierced for ages but I have a thing about holes in things — like woodworm, for example. I know — weird. But that had put me off for too long given my yearning for long, dangly earrings, and I still hadn’t got my ears pierced.

When I was sixteen, I worked the summer fruit-picking in Norway and caught a (horrendously small) plane to Copenhagen on my way home. While there I met an old friend — of…