tagged - 6 things (random)

been tagged by Bellamocha, so have to write 6 random things about myself.
hmm
(is that one?)
(naaah..)

1. i talk to things. especially when they stop working properly. i do it in the hope that they will be cheered by the fact that someone is bothering to talk to them and start working again.

2. many years ago i had a friend who had a lot of mice coming into her flat. she wrote them a wee note and pinned it to the skirting near the hole asking them if they would mind not coming back and wishing them all the best for the future. she said it worked. once i kept getting a mouse. i just made sure i left an oatcake out for it, but nothing else. that way it just ate a bit and went away again now and then. i decided to call it 'Daisy'. after a while it stopped coming.

3. when i was very small in Portugal i discovered two packets of mothballs in my mother's bedroom. when my mother started smelling a strong mothbally smell and realised that i was being very quiet she discovered me having eaten one pack and about to begin the next one. she took me downstairs and made me a large glass of salt water, which i drank and then asked for another one. but i was'nt sick.

4. i used to live with a friend in a tiny wee house in a tiny wee street full of tiny wee houses each for 50p a week in this same city. the only phone was the phone box at the end of the street which whoever was about would answer and go and get whoever it was for if it wasnt for them. it never entered anyone's head to have a tv and personal home computers hadnt been invented yet. we had music though. lots of music. thats when i met my husband. i told him Vanessa Redgrave used to live in the street and he believed me!!

5. i was at the first Glastonbury in 1971. 4 of us travelled down in an old car which kept breaking down, and it took us 2 days to get there. David Bowie sat cross legged on the stage very early one morning singing with his guitar. he hadnt really become famous yet. we were a bit bemused by meeting some 'town' people who had come 'to look at the fashions' - we were completely 'anti-fashion' so it was quite confusing. little did we know.

6. i never learned to drive. when i had a husband, we moved to the country and he started to teach me and i loved it, but then we had to get rid of the car as it broke down and we couldnt afford another one. sometimes i wish i could drive and just take off into the highlands, but most of the time i feel fine that i dont need to depend on one and can get anywhere i want without one. i love travelling by bus train and ferry into the highlands and islands. the long journey is all part of the process of getting there; and you never know who you might meet and what unexpected adventure you might have.

well, that took a bit of time, but it was interesting to see what popped into my head.
thanks Bella Mocha!