Quirky Tag

I've been tagged! Thanks to Andrea... who tells the secret behind her nick name...

The only hint to this game seems to be that the idea is to mention quirky things about oneself...

And this time there is no time limit, no specific way to calculate how many people to tag next or anything...

1. I like to know what the rules are! I even read manuals (sob).... so:
   

   quirky: unusual in an attractive and interesting way
   
   according to freesearch

   (Which might, to other people, make this, my first fact, inadmissible...)


2. I like to know what the rules are so that I can break them.


3. I can be a bit pedantic... what's attractive about that?
   Well I try not to actually say all the pedantic things that occur to me.
   But I really, really, really have to tell you what a meme is!
   

   meme
   
   A meme is an idea that is passed on from one human generation to another. It's the cultural equivalent of a gene, the basic element of biological inheritance. The term was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.
   
   whatis.com
   

   
   It is often used ironically to refer to short-term things like these tag games... but it does not mean "a quiz"!
   
   And I've read The Selfish Gene and Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine.


4. I can be extremely unpedantic. I like to tease pedants (so now you know why I often keep my own hidden...). And no that doesn't seem like an attractive feature if you happen to be a pedant... well there really is no pleasing some people...


5. I laugh a lot.


6. I like celebrating anniversaries, so Jim and I celebrate our getting together day and our wedding anniversary every year - twice the sparkling wine! (The photo above was taken on last year's wedding anniversary on the Stonehenge site).


7. I get really giggly on sparkling wine straight away.


8. I have lots of dreams and I don't tell everyone about them all... just the really, really amazing ones...


9. One amazing dream I had involved meeting two wise women, I was surprised when I met them as they were so young, and had the same face - like identical twins. In the dream they put a hand each on my lower back and said "Don't Ask!".
   
   A few days later I was on the first day of a new course. There were a couple of women there whom I'd never met before. They were cousins. One of them had the same face as the wise women in my dream.
   
   I told them about my dream. I told them about the phrase "Don't Ask!". And they went into giggles. It was one of their catch phrases!
   
   So much for my having thought it was some deep message...


10. I'm still really good friends with the wise woman who had the face of my wise women.


11. My phone conversations last either about 10 minutes or an hour.


12. When walking to the shops I've started looking for things of a specific colour - I've found that makes me see where I live differently - helps me be more observant of what would otherwise be too familiar. Today was a fuschia pink day...


13. I've always been sensitive about how things feel - as a child I disliked one of my blankets because it had a slippery edge; I still don't like it if one hand is wet and other dry - I'd rather make them both wet or both dry; I love to feel things in shops where they say "Don't touch!".


14. I started to smile a lot otherwise everyone said "Cheer up love - it might never happen!" My face when in peaceful repose obviously looks sad... But I've taken back ownership of my face, so if you see me and I'm smiling it won't just be to avoid being nagged.


15. Sometimes I arrange my books by the colours of their spines - this looks lovely but makes finding things trickier.


16. Just occasionally I absolutely have to eat lettuce, not just any lettuce but "Little Gem". The rest of the time I eat other leaves but no lettuce thanks.
    
    This could be genetic. I discovered it for myself then my sister said she does it and so does our aunt Eileen...


17. I love spotting faces in things. Jim took this photo for me of some lichen I'd spotted in Painswick church yard:
    
    

That must be enough...

I've just chased all the way up the tags to find that at one point this wasn't "quirks" but "personal idiosyncrasies"... (if I got the right posts...)

Now I'm not going to tag anyone unless they volunteer. I'll add any volunteers in here so that I link to their list. Let me know if you've picked up this tag!

And if no-one volunteers I'll pull a face like the stone at the top - but if someone does then I'll be like the lichen smiley.

1st Volunteer sort-of: Nan - who is making her way through to 100 facts anway... that's a lot... Having a separate 100-fact blog is a good idea!