A self-indulgent first post!

I have tried blogging before and it is always a challenge to write the first post; it sets the tone for the rest of the blog and one can put a great amount of ‘expectation’ upon oneself when writing the first post.

However I think that this blog will amount to an eclectic mix of ‘stuff’ that makes up my life and with this in mind I’ve gone for a first post with some eclectic facts about myself. Twenty five in fact. I hope to write more interesting posts in the future. So here goes for now...

1.   I'm quite shy. Until you get to know me then, as my husband would tell you, the trouble is getting me to stop talking! 
   
   2.       My Myers-Briggs 'personality type' is INFJ.
   3.       Thanks to the resourcefulness of the dentistry students of Dundee University, one of my teeth is held in place with a piece of paperclip and some dental cement.
   4.       I have never been stung by a bee or a wasp. But I have been stung by several jellyfish.
   5.       I went to the same 6^th Form college as Dominic Monaghan.
   6.       I went to the same university as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. I even sat in the same bar as the Duke once…at the same time. My mother was far more excited by this than I was!
   7.       I honestly don’t know if abortion is right or wrong.  
   8.       Despite living the majority of my teenage years a stones-throw away from Manchester, I have only ever visited one nightclub. I despised it.
   9.       Roxanne is my ‘Sunday name’. Most people call me Roxy. And please NEVER sing my first name, nor my confirmation name (Cecilia) to me.
   10.   I am a ‘recovering’ Catholic. Keith Patrick O’Brien is enough to put anyone off!  
   11.    I met my husband on our sixth day at University. We got to chatting over a crate of beer at a college barbeque. The rest is history!
   12.   I do not have an appendix.
   13.   The nicest place I have holidayed is Muscat, Oman. It was stunning.
   14.   I voted for the Tories in the last election. I will never make that mistake again.
   15. The two things I would really like to own are a Gandalf-style pipe and a full length cloak.
   16.   I see no valid argument at all against ‘gay marriage’.
   17.   I love reading anything that has dragons, wizards, alternate realities, monks or Tudor court politics in it.
   18.   The only soap I have ever followed is Coronation Street and I stopped watching this around 5 months ago as I got sick of storylines about infidelity.
   19.   Platonically, I have always preferred the company of men to the company of women. I don’t know why, I just do. Maybe it’s the old adage about balancing yourself out or some such other!
   20.   I have most certainly not read ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. Not for any deep, moral reasons, but because I am informed it is terribly written. I was a little intrigued, but once you’ve read Wideacre you’ve kinda read it all!
   21.   I LOVE choral music, but I cannot sing at all! My musical ability extends to being able to play the ‘Anderson Gloria’ on the guitar (a throwback to my very liturgically liberal childhood parish).
   22.   I had my first cigarette when I was 12. I quit nearly a year ago. I cannot begin to imagine how much money I wasted on cigarettes!
   23.   I prefer savoury to sweet. If I become morbidly obese (which I am convinced one day I will), it will be because of pies, crisps, nuts and curry, not because of chocolate or cake!
   24. My favourite song must be Corpus Christi Carol by Jeff Buckley - very closely followed by Hallelujah. 
   25.   My most recent discovery is that it is far easier to write self-indulgent facts about myself than I previously thought!