Hey! Answer this with 5 facts about yourself and pass it on to 10 of your followers! - jackmarlowe
1. When I was about nine I wrote an Odd Couple type sitcom called, imaginatively, 'Jim and Francis', the first page of which still survives. Francis bets his house that his lazy brother Jim won't get a job, and then Jim comes back as a football mascot. When he comes through the door dressed as a duck, Francis' cigarette drops out of his mouth. I choose to believe this means that one some level I always knew I would smoke.
2. One especially lonely summer I learnt to do about an eight inch card flourish [that thing where you make the cards trthrthrthrthrthrthrthr from one hand to the other, I had to google the name for it myself].
3. Last year of primary school, my friend choked on a rock [don't ask me how it got there] and I saved his life with an improvised heimlich manoeuvre. He was on his hands and knees so I just thumped him on the back until it came out. Later, his father shook my hand, which I thought so hilarious I ran away from him.
4. The only time I got a first in my ill-fated English degree course was for reading a few pages of Leaves of Grass. I love uncle Walt that much.
5. [I give up trying to think of something new] I lived in a hotel in Stratford-Upon Avon for six months when I was ten, which has put me off most cooked breakfast but was still completely awesome. I had a barman friend called Bernard, who had a beard like father Christmas, let me sit at the bar and served me Appletiser late into the night while my mother worked upstairs
