Eurgh, feel like utter shit today so I'm staying off work. Tried to drive but almost crashed the car- not good when it's 7:30am, pitch black and pissing down with rain either 
Hence I'm doing what I should have done absolutely AGES ago after being tagged by Una and writing 20 things about myself so you can get a picture of my odd little world.
1. I was born in Eastbourne, the same place Aleister Crowley used to play chess. Nowadays the 'Bourne is better known for pensioners and having the highest amount of Jedi, according to the 2001 UK Census. Allegedly.
2. Incidentally Crowley wrote a chess column for the Eastbourne Gazette, the same newspaper I did my work experience on.
3. I was born with perfect pitch, the ability to name/ identify a musical note just by listening to it (with no other notes for guidance). I currently have no use for it, except to irritate musicians, heh heh.
4. I have Danish Viking roots 1,000 years down the line, that's where the red hair comes from. It comes from my mother's side (her maiden name is a Norse term for Thor's hammer).
5. I can put my hands in ice water for an hour without wincing, 'cos I can get through the pain until my hands go numb. Source- a very boring Biology lesson 4 years ago.
6. I am frightened of mushrooms/ funghi. No, really. They taste foul, they feast on the dead and they grow and spread underneath the ground where we can't see them, sometimes for miles and miles *shudders*.
7. I am ridiculously clumsy. So far in the past two months I have spilt water over 2 computer keyboards, bumped into 2 members of staff, fallen over my own feet and crashed into numerous chairs
8. I have fancied two people after dreaming about them. Literally dreamt about someone i didn't even think about, then woken up and thought 'cor, he's nice!' The first was my drama teacher when I was 12 the second was a mate at college 6 years ago. Luckily I am now attracted to neither of them 
9. I am a former fanzine writer/editor, beginning my illustrious journalistic career when I was 15. Cheap and Nasty issues 1 and 2 sold about 27 copies between 'em, but I DID get postal interviews with The League of Gentlemen and Adam and Joe- whoo!
10. My favourite newspaper is The Sun. But not, I repeat NOT for its politics. I just think it's an entertaining read, especially the problem page.
11. I asked Ann Widdicome (strait-laced Conservative MP) if she would sleep with Tony Blair for 5 million at a student politics conference in 2002. She said no. My parents were very disappointed with me for asking.
12. I don't believe in the sanctimony of marriage, and I intend to never get married.
13. I met Bob Hoskins once after me and my friends saw him shopping in the Lewes branch of Dixons. He was shorter than me and when I asked him for an autograph, he looked really pissed off. But he signed it anyway.
14. I have only ever dyed my hair 3 times, to make it a bit redder. None of the attempts worked either, so what ya see in the picture is completely au natural (except for the green and black falls, obviously)
15. I still read children's books and one of my favourite authors is Jacqueline Wilson. I read adult books too, but kid's books have better use of imagination, I think.
16. Contraversial this one, but I have fallen asleep in the cinema before. The film? Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. My defence: I was on medication at the time. Apolgies to all LOTR fans.
17. I am an accomplished 'cellist, having played the 'cello from the ages of 8 to 16. I also leaned how to play the basslines of Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come as You Are on a 'cello turned sideways before I learned 'em on bass guitar.
18. I have never been arrested, but I like the idea of knocking a policemen's hat off his head a la Nana Moon on last week's Eastenders.
19. The first time I got drunk was when I was 17, with my parents in Austria- does that sound sad? I have since made up for my sober years 'tho, oh yes!
20. The 'Queen of the Fish' thing comes from an incident in 2001 when me and faeryy wouldn't stop yelling "fish!" in the middle of a Brighton branch of McDonalds when we were drunk. Eventually it evolved into the myth that I was the Queen of the Fish...and it's stuck. She even addresses my Christmas cards H.R.H. The Queen of the Fish, yay!
Okies, there's my 20 fun facts. According to the rules of tagging, it is now my duty to tag 5 others to find out some more about them. Here ya go, redderz , SpinDizzy , Rodan , misodiva and BAZZA0091
Hope everyone's good anyways, laters
Hence I'm doing what I should have done absolutely AGES ago after being tagged by Una and writing 20 things about myself so you can get a picture of my odd little world.
1. I was born in Eastbourne, the same place Aleister Crowley used to play chess. Nowadays the 'Bourne is better known for pensioners and having the highest amount of Jedi, according to the 2001 UK Census. Allegedly.
2. Incidentally Crowley wrote a chess column for the Eastbourne Gazette, the same newspaper I did my work experience on.
3. I was born with perfect pitch, the ability to name/ identify a musical note just by listening to it (with no other notes for guidance). I currently have no use for it, except to irritate musicians, heh heh.
4. I have Danish Viking roots 1,000 years down the line, that's where the red hair comes from. It comes from my mother's side (her maiden name is a Norse term for Thor's hammer).
5. I can put my hands in ice water for an hour without wincing, 'cos I can get through the pain until my hands go numb. Source- a very boring Biology lesson 4 years ago.
6. I am frightened of mushrooms/ funghi. No, really. They taste foul, they feast on the dead and they grow and spread underneath the ground where we can't see them, sometimes for miles and miles *shudders*.
7. I am ridiculously clumsy. So far in the past two months I have spilt water over 2 computer keyboards, bumped into 2 members of staff, fallen over my own feet and crashed into numerous chairs
8. I have fancied two people after dreaming about them. Literally dreamt about someone i didn't even think about, then woken up and thought 'cor, he's nice!' The first was my drama teacher when I was 12
the second was a mate at college 6 years ago. Luckily I am now attracted to neither of them
9. I am a former fanzine writer/editor, beginning my illustrious journalistic career when I was 15. Cheap and Nasty issues 1 and 2 sold about 27 copies between 'em, but I DID get postal interviews with The League of Gentlemen and Adam and Joe- whoo!
10. My favourite newspaper is The Sun. But not, I repeat NOT for its politics. I just think it's an entertaining read, especially the problem page.
11. I asked Ann Widdicome (strait-laced Conservative MP) if she would sleep with Tony Blair for 5 million at a student politics conference in 2002. She said no. My parents were very disappointed with me for asking.
12. I don't believe in the sanctimony of marriage, and I intend to never get married.
13. I met Bob Hoskins once after me and my friends saw him shopping in the Lewes branch of Dixons. He was shorter than me and when I asked him for an autograph, he looked really pissed off. But he signed it anyway.
14. I have only ever dyed my hair 3 times, to make it a bit redder. None of the attempts worked either, so what ya see in the picture is completely au natural (except for the green and black falls, obviously)
15. I still read children's books and one of my favourite authors is Jacqueline Wilson. I read adult books too, but kid's books have better use of imagination, I think.
16. Contraversial this one, but I have fallen asleep in the cinema before. The film? Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. My defence: I was on medication at the time. Apolgies to all LOTR fans.
17. I am an accomplished 'cellist, having played the 'cello from the ages of 8 to 16. I also leaned how to play the basslines of Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come as You Are on a 'cello turned sideways before I learned 'em on bass guitar.
18. I have never been arrested, but I like the idea of knocking a policemen's hat off his head a la Nana Moon on last week's Eastenders.
19. The first time I got drunk was when I was 17, with my parents in Austria- does that sound sad? I have since made up for my sober years 'tho, oh yes!
20. The 'Queen of the Fish' thing comes from an incident in 2001 when me and faeryy wouldn't stop yelling "fish!" in the middle of a Brighton branch of McDonalds when we were drunk. Eventually it evolved into the myth that I was the Queen of the Fish...and it's stuck. She even addresses my Christmas cards H.R.H. The Queen of the Fish, yay!
Okies, there's my 20 fun facts. According to the rules of tagging, it is now my duty to tag 5 others to find out some more about them. Here ya go, redderz , SpinDizzy , Rodan , misodiva and BAZZA0091
Hope everyone's good anyways, laters
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the necklace took 3-4 hours? Not all at once though. I never time myself and am getting better at estimating. . .
where did you go off to? Work? Adventure?