What have you got me into Mark – how can you write eight random things you wouldn’t normally write on your blog on a blog as random as this? Well at least I can manage the random part OK!
1. My first full peel was of Superlative Surprise Major at Ss Peter and Paul Ewhurst, Surrey.
2. I’ve read Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin) at least once a year since my Godfather gave me a copy in 1982 – I’d read my Mother’s copy a “Utility” paperback before that.
3. I hate playing Monopoly – and I have trouble spelling it too!
4. I know how to spell forward but have a tendency to type it without the first r.
5. I have an almost twelve year old black and white cat call Minstrel who isn’t as fat as he used to be – no where near as fat as the cat from Norway who got stuck in the doorway.
6. I adore Flanders and Swann, and Gilbert and Sulivan and can very well spot an allusion in the dusk with the light behind it.
7. I use Oxford commas sparingly; sometimes they are necessary to avoid confusion.
8. Recondite is the first word fully defined on page 922 of the Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary 1959 revision, 1966 impression – and if that isn’t hidden: obscure: abstruse: profound. Don’t you just love a word for which the meaning is obscure?
