My lovely friend Lisa has tagged me with this, since it’s a quick and easy way to update I’m going for it.
1. I can’t understand crochet. It doesn’t make sense to me. I have a very mathematical brain and need to understand how things work, I can’t understand how crochet works so I can’t do it.
2. I feel quite uncomfortable sharing very personal things on my blog, but I am a chronic oversharer in person. My friends can attest to this.
3. If it wasn’t for the fact that I get very unwell when I’m pregnant, Bob and I would have had at least one or two more babies. I still feel desperately sad that I’ve had my last baby but very grateful to have had four lovely children. I had a miscarriage before we had Greer though, and hence I’m extremely supportive of my friend, Rosie who is running the 2010 London Marathon for The Miscarriage Association. Follow her on twitter, she’s very inspirational.
4. Despite being in the Air Training Corps as a teenager, I am a pacifist. I am still very grateful for the experiences I had as a result and I’m also supportive of our soldiers, but I believe that our involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is at best misguided.
5. I spent more time at university engaging in student politics than I did studying. I am assured this is a common occurence for student politicians. I served on the NUS Scotland Women’s committee for two years and would have liked to have stood for election as Women’s officer but life got in the way.
6. I can eat chocolate until it’s coming out of my ears, but I’m not a fan of fizzy jelly sweets.
7. As a household, we have restarted a boycott against Nestle. I cannot in good conscience financially support a company with such abysmal moral practices. I found this blog post very insightful. We are also dedicated to living a green & moral lifestyle, hence keeping our own hens and quail. I heard a quote recently, “Have nothing in your home which does not bring you joy” and I think it’s something to aspire to.
8. I (like Lisa) love cheese! My favourite is Stilton with ginger & apricot with Applewood smoked coming a close second although I’m not a big fan of stinky stinky cheese, it tends to be a little too strong for me.
9. I hate the feeling of sandpaper, it gives me the heebie jeebies. I can’t touch nail files/emery boards because of it and this has meant that I haven’t finished my resin pieces. Ugh!
10. I constantly post on here saying, “Tomorrow I’ll do x” and never quite get round to it. I am full of great intentions but still coming to terms with having four children and the time involved in parenting them!
In return I tag…
1) Amanda at Kitschycoo
2) Dawn at Bubblefish Cards
3) Chrissy at I Love SpoiltPig
4) Torya at Butterfly Sparkle
5) Emma at jellybelly*jellybrain
6) Eileen at Real Mum beauty
(I was about to tag Daisie but quickly checked over at her blog and I think she might be a little too busy any time soon! Click over to see why.)
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This post was written by Vonnie on October 2, 2009
http://butterflysparkledesigns.blogspot.com/2009/10/10-things-about-me.html
I hate sandpaper too… just the worst! And we’re Nestle boycotters – I had a panic when I thought they were going to buy Cadbury..
Dvae and I stopped eating Nestle 3 years ago, The are just terrible, it’s a disgrace that they are allowed to do what they do. I ike fiy chewy sweets, but not the plain ones.
Alos thank yuo for saying I a lovely!
Applewood smoked cheese mmmm. Giving up cheese was the hardest thing I ever did (I think it was even harder than giving up smoking)
and 1. Yeah, I COMPLETELY know what you mean. I’m trying to figure it out though because there’s this super cute lion-brand free pattern for a felted crocheted cat bag that I want to make for my daughter.
I just did a 10 things about me on flickr and it was soo hard to think of things! Yours is a great list x