I've Been Tagged!

So the other day I was on Beck's blog and the blighter's gone and tagged me! Now to be honest, I don't really know what that means, but apparently I'm supposed to write 8 interesting things about me. Hm. I don't know if there are that many... but here goes...

Oh, before I post them, I'm supposed to post the rules...

*Each player must post these rules to begin.* Each player starts with eight random facts or habits about themselves.* People who get tagged must blog about their eight things and post these rules.* At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.

Ok, so my 8 'interesting' things are:

1. When I get really mad I bite my lower lip, baring my teeth to all like some sort of mad dog. It's really gross actually.

2. My all-time favourite movies are the Star Wars saga. I loved Star Wars so much as a kid that me, Mel and my cousin Simon once wrote our own version, starring John Sunrunner and Darth Snotvad. Hmm. Suffice to say it wasn't a hit!

3. When I was a child I loved Enid Blyton so much that when we played make believe games I called myself Enid. Also, I really, really, REALLY wanted to be a writer when I grew up.

4. I once met ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie. For more info on that, you need to go to a previous post "Goodbye Mr PM" way back in June this year...

5. I was part of a guard of honour (well, of sorts) for Lizzie, the Queen, a few years back. Every year in March they hold special "Commonwealth Day" services at Westminster Abbey. I'd taken the girls from school annually to the services and this particular year we were invited to line up outside the Abbey and stand as a kind of guard of honour (with some other schools). Although I never got to say g'day to Lizzie, I was about 3 or 4 metres away from her (and Philip, Charlie and Tony Blair). Pretty cool.

6. Me, Mel and Dad once "starred" in an episode of Wombat with my Uncle David. Me and Mel were in our school uniforms and had to pretend that we were hitchhiking. We were standing right outside our house, on the quietest road in Brisbane, pretending to hitch, when a crappy old Valiant pulls over- and just as we were about to get in my uncle, Constable Dave, steps in and stops us from going off with a "crazy madman", who bore a remarkable resemblance to... my Dad...

7. I can play (badly) a few instruments - piano, saxophone (sop, alto, tenor and baritone), tenor horn, baritone horn, Eb tuba - and a few notes on the trumpet - but the funniest was Awards evening a few years back. We had just invested in some trombones for school, but had no teacher yet and no kids could play them. So up I hop, with the school jazz band, valve positions written in underneath the notes, and play along with the band. My first and last ever trombone performance. Oh, and there was also the time that our junior band leader thought it would be a good gimmick to have me play both flugel horn and saxophone in the one piece, culminating at the end in me playing the two instruments at the same time for the last note (oh, what a shocker that was!). And finally, in the playing stakes, let's not forget how I failed my A Mus A, then tried to sit the Trinity College version (ATCL) - failed it too - and was scheduled to re-sit it a few months before I came to England - only 3 days before the exam I broke my finger playing netball. By some sheer fluke they allowed me to re-schedule the exam 4 weeks later (1 week after the splint came off) - and by an even bigger fluke I managed to pass...

8. Speaking of performances, I have played / performed in some famous-ish venues. I've performed in a choir at the 4th World Choral Symposium in Sydney at the Sydney Opera House. I've performed with the school steel band at 10 Downing Street. I've performed with our violin students at the Houses of Parliament, with our drummers at Shakespeare's Globe theatre, with the jazz band (and others) at the London Jazz Festival, Royal Festival Hall (and also performed in the Purcell rooms there), and played / processed in the Thames Festival procession. Not bad for a lowly high school teacher, eh?

And that's it. Can't think of any more things. Well, other than love of travel, chocolate, movies, music... oh and then also the time I accidentally flashed my undies to the kids at St Pauls... (long story, involving jumping up on a bit of staging at the back of the music room and 'feeling the breeze' as the zip on my skirt popped open...)

Now apparently I'm supposed to 'tag' 8 others. The only problem with that is that not many of my friends are on blogger, or any blogging thing - maybe you can write your "8 interesting things" in the comments section on this blog if you don't have your own blog. So, I tag - Mel, Jane, Aga, Topher, Art, Bean, Erik and Dad. If they ever read this, that is...