OK I have been tagged by Caitriona,(that is to tell five things you don’t know about me) this makes it doubly difficult because it is nearly impossible to produce hidden parts of your life to someone with whom you have lived for 17 years. (She is my daughter!) But I’ll try.

(1.)
I resolutely didn’t listen to pop music until about 16 believing in a totally snobbish fashion that it was inferior to classical. I was seduced back into pop by falling for Joan Baez, she led me to Bob Dylan and then I saw the Rolling Stones live in the Savoy in Cork………..

(2 )
I am 58 years old but am the youngest of seven children, the six siblings still think of me as the “babby” and still spoil me. (Shaming but true!)

(3)
I won second prize in the Shell Hole (don’t ask)under twelve free style swimming race when I was 11. The shameful bit is that I still have the medal-somewhere.

(4)
As a child I firmly believed that I had special powers which made me superior to everyone else. They pretended to be like me just to make me feel that I wasn’t alone.

(5)
At the age of 12 or 13 I saved up and went alone to see Maya Plisetskaya,of the Bolshoi Ballet Company dance the Dying Swan in the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. I was so moved that I was still weeping (to my profound embarrassment) when the curtain came up at the end.

Ok?
A card carrying nerd.
I am not going to pass it on as I think every other blogger I know has already been tagged.
If anyone who reads this wants to tell me anything that I dont know about them please do so, in the comment box!