Eight Things About Dave

I have been 'tagged' by Livingsword. Normally I would ignore these things and move on, but this one I'm going to do - if only because I am off work with a cold and it has given me something to do.

First, there are some rules to this game:

• Each player must post these rules first.
  
• Each player then posts eight random facts/habits about themselves.
  
• At the end of your post, you should choose eight more people to tag - list their names.
  
• Leave the eight people a comment telling them they’re tagged.

So, here are eight things about me that you may not have known already.

1) I used to smoke. I don't think I was ever really addicted in the same way that many people are - I could go hours, days or weeks without thinking about a cigarette - I just liked a smoke. Some months I would smoke a lot, but I was never anywhere near a 20-a-day guy. All of a sudden a couple of years ago I just went off them - no idea why, but I haven't smoked since and have no desire to again. One thing I do know though is that if I was ever going to have a hangover in the morning, it would always be worse if drinking had been combined with smoking.

2) I'm going to be a father in less than a month! We don't know yet whether it will be a boy or a girl, but we have names chosen for each. I can't tell you what they are, but I can say that I wanted to give a boy the middle name Xavier (pronounced X-avier, like in X-Men, not like in Spanish), but was over-ruled.

3) I probably spend far too long sitting in front of a computer - at work, at home, anywhere.

4) I don't eat my five a day. In fact its probably a rare day when I eat three.

5) My favourite Italian restaurant, outside Italy, is in Tallinn, Estonia.

6) I've never been in trouble with the police. The closest I came was when I was probably ten years old ... walking home with my mum on a snowy day I was hanging back a bit and threw a hard snowball at a passing car, hitting the windscreen. The car slowed and I ran, telling my mum I wanted to get home quicker. The car followed me and caught up - the driver told me that the snowball could have broken his windscreen and caused an accident and he should have dialled the fuzz. That scared me senseless. I saw the car driver several times in the following couple of years, but have no idea if he ever recognised me again.

7) I have never given blood. Or had a blood test taken (to my knowledge).

8) This is my one hundred and second blog post. I wasn't sure I would keep this going for very long, but I'm still here.


So now I have to choose the people I am going to tag. I don't really expect all of them to reciprocate and play along, but they get tagged anyway:

• Neilly Done
  
• Ming
  
• The Jiffler
  
• Mrs. Jiffler
  
• Kiran
  
• Sara
  
• Ludivine
  
• SuffolkGirl