sailorette’s diary - a diary writen by a sailorette for her loved ones to read after returning safely home from sea

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Theres a tagging chain letter going round. Someone writes 5 things you might not know about them, and passes it on to 5 friends with blogs by tagging them.

A meme.

I got tagged. And if i’m to play the game, I need to respond to Dom and Nico with five things you might not know about me.

1. I was Tyne & Wear Table Tennis champion 1991-1993.
My nemesis was a girl called Sam Goldberg, who was a dangerous cheater and had a nervous twitch that involved sliding her gold earring in and out of her ear.

2. I used to have my tongue pierced.
It lasted around 8 months.I finally took it out because it got boring and wasn’t appreciated by the opposite sex.

3. I have an eyebrow scar.
When I was about 2 years old, in a spanish restaurant I sat, food all around my face. I started clambering out of my highchair, reached towards my dad, who, seeing the mess I was in, stepped away… Spanish tiled floor - my face.

4. I was almost lost as a child.
This involved ‘hide and seek’ with my dad at the Quayside in Newcastle, a police search, and the dredging of the river Tyne.

I was eventually found playing happily with two kids at an indian wedding.

5. I am genetically my father’s daughter, and my uncle’s daughter.
Work that one out.

And thus having completed my task, I pass the gauntlet to:
1. James
2. Mamma-muu
3. Maria
4. Toby - a pictorial response?

Today was THE basketball match…well…THE FIRST OF MANY basketball matches. It started as an idea between me and benny to have an east vrs north london basketball match. However it didn’t really turn out like that but it was still really good fun. A saturday sunny day spent scuffing up dust clouds as we lept with inexperience, hands waving madly in attempts to stop a potential basket, or really just to try to get the ball.

The crew included myself, nico, g, benny, maria, julia and gustav’s ex-flatmate hannah. Hannah spent most of her time on the mobile phone. G was rather good, good enough to cover hannah’s mobile phone handicap. It was probably the most fun basketball game i’ve played. And after, collapsing on the grass, dusty and tired, chatting in the sun, it was one of those days you thank life for your friends, saturdays and parks.

In regards to this

“If not nobody would.”