5 things you don’t know about me

Posted on | December 29, 2006 | 3 Comments

(Well, a couple you may know, especially if you’re Jean)

1. (i) I quite often think about, and am ashamed by, how politically incorrect my childhood games were. Particularly the game my brother and I invented – “Ethiopes” – which we played in the sandy area of the farmhouse near the dog kennels. It consisted of us digging lots of interconnected tunnels under the sand and probably planting sticks for trees then getting a hose and flooding the little village we had made. (ii) I also used to jump in big piles of woodchips for fun, because we have a little timber mill and a pine forest plantation on our property.

2. I have always had neuroses about making friends (I think this is because I grew up so far from anywhere, which led to my playing un-PC games with my brother, or talking to sheep). The incident that best summarises this is the time in primary school when I first invited a ‘city’ friend to come stay on the farm one weekend. After we drove down to the island on the Friday night, she woke up the next morning in tears because she was so homesick and we had to take her back to the ferry for her parents to pick her up. I had been trying to cheer her up with (what I thought was) a funny dance but it had the opposite effect.

3. As a teenager I was forced to sign a petition against an abortion clinic opening in our neighbourhood and I am still angry about it.

4. At our dress rehearsal the night before the Rock Eisteddfod in high school I mysteriously came down with scarlet fever and couldn’t do the stage lighting. I was so disappointed and felt so sick I thought I was going to die!

5. I am extremely, incurably ticklish.

I tag Michael, Mel, Galaxy and Clif.

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3 Responses to “5 things you don’t know about me”

  1. Kirsty
    December 29th, 2006 @ 11:24 pm

    Oh, I’ve just read this, give me a day or two. I have another day of eating left to go. Then it’s over, I swear. Green leafy things only.

  2. melgregg
    December 31st, 2006 @ 12:09 pm

    Ha. No pressure! Feel free to ignore it too!!

  3. Mel
    January 15th, 2007 @ 10:37 am

    Crap, I’ve only just read this now! I’ll totally do it.

    I used to play a game with my brothers and cousins that sounded very similar to your Ethiopes. We called it Death Chasm.

    We also had a dreadfully un-PC game that we played around the time of the 1986 Commonwealth Games, in which we each had an athlete character. My cousin was the Australian who (naturally) always was allowed to win. I was the British athlete who could come second or third. But we made my brother be a Fijian who was constantly mocked and always had to come last. The character’s name was Lim Bongzart.

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