I've been "tagged" by miladydewinter (that's the last time I ever leave the house without my bulletproof vest).
So without further ado, here are 20 amusing fact-based anecdotes about me:

1 As a very small child I had an inate ability to tell a car's make, just from looking at it from 30 metres away. Puzzling, due to the fact that I now believe cars to be the root of all the world's evil.

2 In 1990 I tripped whilst walking through a graveyard and headbutted a church. Much blood ensued and thus began my suspicion of all things religious.

3 In 1992 at the end of the Barcelona Olympics, I cried. Those games had been my life for three weeks; to the point where I couldn't contemplate life without them. I survived, but I haven't cried again in the intervening 13 years.

4 In 1994 I watched the great Miguel Indurain win his fourth Tour de France. I've been hooked ever since, and am anticpating a tremendous event next year in the absence of Lance Armstrong.

5 In 1999 I was arrested for stealing a not insubstantial amount of money from my school's "fund". I'm now a reformed character.

6 In 2001, after leaving school, I travelled around the Norwegian fjords. I fell completely in love with the country and now view it as my spiritual home.

7 In 2002 I went on a college trip to Rome, and spent my first night there sitting next to my unconscious and quite drunk friend, making sure he didn't choke on his own vomit. (I didn't realise one human could contain quite so much bile.) That, coupled with: a) a revulsion to the taste of alcohol, and b) control freakery; means I am teetotal: I have never been drunk.

8 In 2002 I passed my first badminton coaching award. I have been coaching youngsters between the ages of 6-18 ever since.

9 In 2003/4 I spent 6 months as "early morning delivery staff" at a chain store. I had to start work at 5am. It was worth it in the Spring to catch all the beautiful sunrises.

10 In March 2004, I had my hair cut. It hasn't been cut since.

11 In 2004, after earning a nice sum of money, I went travelling. I managed to hit Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, San Marino, Spain, France and Luxembourg. After some concerted earning this Summer, I intend to reach Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Russia in 2006.

12 In October 2004 I had the honour of meeting Miss Keira Knightley and professing my undying love to her. She was very understanding.

13 In 1975 I was catching the London train from Crewe station. It was very crowded and I found myself in a rush for the one remaining seat with a tall, good-looking man with collar length hair. When I sat down on the seat, I looked up and realised it was none other than Peter Purves, who was at the height of his Blue Peter fame. He said "you jammy bastard," and quick as a flash I replied: "don't be blue, peter." Needless to say, I had the last laugh.

And now some more general factoids....

14 I have a strong attachment to the sea: I'm at my creative best when near it and believe that were I to be moved inland for any long period of time I would shrivel up and die.

15 I like in mortal fear of me/my parents developing Alzheimers disease. It would make cancer seem like a welcome visitor.

16 I'm a hopeless and helpless romantic.

17 I'm also a hopeless and helpless romanticist: with a penchant for Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth and Tennyson. But not Byron.

18 Similarly I have a great liking for the Russian romantic composers: Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev et al. Also Grieg and Saint-Saens. But definitely not Beethoven.

19 I'm a complete pedant, and proud of it. My friends are continually exasperated by me pointing out their grammatical inadequacies.

20 I want to have a daughter. Not anytime soon, but I'd prefer a daughter to a son, because males in general are quite boring.

And there we are. How exciting.

Guess I'd better "tag" someone else....I'll get my gun.
So Hex, Talena and XTC, if you're up to the challenge, you're "it".