I’ve been tagged by Teuchter, so here goes..
- I have four kids, including two identical twin boys. They are three years old – how the house is still standing is beyond me..
- I have experienced a 7.6 magnitude earthquake (Turkey, 1999).
- I was in Australia once – for 2 days.
- I love astronomy – I have seen the aurora borealis, an incredible meteor shower and the space shuttle jettisoning its tanks shortly after take-off.
- I love walking along coastlines – particularly rocks and cliffs. The scarier and more dramatic, the better.
- I used to speak the Irish language quite fluently.
- I got married a few hours before Princess Diana died. Whatever Mohammed Al Fayed says, I don’t believe there is a relationship between these two events :-)..
- I wrote a full adventure game, based on Shelob’s Lair in the Lord of the Rings, at the age of 14. Only two people ever played it.
And now, on to Pirlam, who might have a few things to say..
Passive Impressions 
Was the adventure game you wrote a board game, or computer-based, or something else? How very interesting!!
I’ve never experienced an earthquake. I can’t imagine what that must have been like.
It was a text-based computer game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It was described by my user base as “exceedingly difficult”! I loved working on it, though.
>> I don’t believe there is a coincidence in these two events..
a word of true atheist 🙂
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I was tagged almost a year ago – see here, so I’m off the hook.
Twins – yes, three is a disruptive age. They soon suss out that they can cause maximum havoc by running off in opposite directions.
I’ve been in two earthquakes. We used to live next to a laundrette, and every time the spin dryers were operated, our house used to shake. We eventually got the owner to sort it…but a little while later, the next day everyone at school was ashen-faced. Seems we’d slept through an earthquake and assumed it was the driers. My other one was in Ottawa, which lies right on a fault line. (one bank of the Ottawa River is much higher than the other)
And I must share Armando Ianucci’s words:
“We all differ in how soon after the death of somebody famous we feel it’s acceptable to joke about them. I once got in big trouble for doing a whole stand-up routine about Princess Diane in Paris. On the day she died. While driving through an underpass. In a white Fiat Uno.”
An early edition headline in the Sunday Independent on August 31, 1997 – (I am not making this up):
“It’s do or die for Di and Dodi”
Later editions pulled this headline for some reason..