The Sigla Blog

My my, it feels like 2005 around here. Why? I’ve just been tagged in a meme and I didn’t even know they existed any more. And you’d think Declan, with a brand new nipper on his hands, wouldn’t have time for this nonsense. In the spirit of randomness and nosily finding out things about six other bloggers, I’m in.

Here’s how it works:

Link to the person that tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Write six random things about you in a blog post.
Tag six people in your post.
Let each person know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Let the taggee know your entry is up.

Six random things about me:

* I am a total geek for crosswords, puzzles, word games and Countdown. It’s me getting in touch with my inner granny.
* At some point in the future, I need to have my hip replaced. Long story.
* My one and only encounter with Bertie Ahern was interviewing him on Bloomsday in 2000. He pretended he’d read Ulysses, until eventually confessing he’d only read a bit of Dubliners. I was clad in 1904-era clothes at the time (borrowed from wardrobe in RTE).
* The first thing I ever got published (apart from Pat Ingoldsby reading out one of my poems on Pat’s Chat and I didn’t see it) was a letter to the United magazine railing against all the girls that wrote in asking what Lee Sharpe’s starsign was. I signed off huffily with “Most female fans are watching what players are doing with their legs, not their arses”. Harumph. It won star letter and a United jersey.
* There is very little foodwise that I won’t eat, but I have a virulent hatred of celery.
* I’ve physically felt the presence of people I know who are dead. With one person, it happened several times and felt like someone kneeling on my back. It never happened again after their Month’s Mind mass. NB. I once worked with a freaky guy who told me I had a gift around “newly dead people”. I haven’t been to many fortune tellers, but every one I’ve gone to tells me that I’m psychic and should tap into it. My great granny used to predict the future with playing cards and my granny used to see ghosts.

So I tag Aoife, Shane, Mish, Medbh, Grandad and Red.

Apologies if you’ve already done it/hate these things etc.