BlogDale

I just noticed that Steve’s tagged me in the BlogTag game.  So now I have to submit some little-known information about myself and pass the baton.  Well here goes:

1. I was qualified to fly an aircraft before being able to drive a car on my own.  I got my glider wings in 1979 (which doesn’t really count) and I went solo in powered aeroplanes the day before my 18th birthday.  I got my Private Pilot’s Licence about two weeks after that.  It’s now lapsed, flying having lost its appeal for some reason (probably cost).
2. At 18, I actively refused to consider a career in teaching.  My parents were both teachers and I really didn’t want to “follow me dad” into a white-collar profession and pursued an engineering bias, flunking aeronautical engineering at polytechnic then working as a mechanic for a short while and going back to college to get qualified in agricultural engineering (”ummm…hit it with the medium hammer”) and working in animal feed milling for a decade or so.  A change in personal circumstances left me with the chance to go to university to get a degree in Mathematics and qualified teacher status at the same time, so I took it with both hands.  My only regret is that I didn’t get into teaching when I was 18.
3. I once nearly drowned in High Protein Soya meal.
4. I used to run half marathons (even I find that unbelievable now, but I have photographic evidence).
5. I sellotaped bacon to the three highest peaks in the UK in less than 22 hours.  (22 consecutive hours, that is).  That was ages ago too, but again I have photos to prove it.

Here are 5 blogs I enjoy reading who might like to pick up the baton
Leon Cych

Miles Berry

Julie Holmwood

Hope School (um…not sure how this sits with the idea of BlogTagging but it might be a novel experiment!)

Ian Usher