It's Meme Time!

Maylin tagged me for this one. Here are the rules:

To participate you

Link to the person who tagged you.
List seven facts about yourself.
Post the rules on your blog.
Tag seven more people to do the same and link to them.
Let each person know they've been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
Let the tagger know when your entry has been posted.


Here are my seven:

1. I went to uni at 19 and started a degree in Welsh but didn't complete it.
2. Some of that non completion was due to being a member of the Stage Crew. This involved setting up lighting and sound for discos and bands and a certain amount of beer drinking. I made many great friends who I still think about a lot although I sadly lost touch with many during the dark depression years. I also got to crew for several well known (at the time) indie bands such as Carter USM and Daisy Chainsaw, some brilliant cover bands and lots of great bands that never quite made it.
3. I was probably one of last people to be able to take UK age 16 exams (O'Level/GCSE) in four languages due to the introduction of the National Curriculm  - I did O Level French, Welsh, Italian and Latin. I also took all but Latin as A Levels. The closest I got to a science was Maths. I would have loved to have done Physics but it was in the same group as Welsh.
4. I did the classic 'Go to Open University Summer School, meet someone new and leave your previous partner' thing. The relationship didn't work out in the end but it's how I ended up in Nottingham and without it I would never have met Rob.
5. My hair is naturally red - I tend to describe it as auburn and never, ever ginger. The only exception are my eyebrows and eyelashes which are dark brown. As no one in Rob's family has red hair, we don't think that he carries the gene which is recessive so the forthcoming baby will probably not have red hair.
6. When I was born, I had a full complement of grandparents and one set of great grandparents - this lasted until just before I was 16. When Meleri was born we were able to get a great photo of five generations of women all through the maternal line.
7. I was one of three Emmas in my class all through primary and the first two years of secondary school (the same three as it happens), I think we were all Emma Ja(y)nes as well. I then moved secondary schools and my new best friend for almost all the time I was there was another Emma Ja(y)ne.

I'm not tagging anyone else but feel free to pick this up and have a go!

Comments

[Jean]

Oh I am with you all the way with the auburn hair and not the ginger. I used to hate it at school and it was only when I was about 16 that people started dyeing their hair with henna and it looked so FAKE! I could always tell and took pleasure in saying so (how horrid I was but it made up for all those years of being teased!). But your baby may well have red hair although it often skips a generation - mine came from a grandfather.