8 things you don’t know about me

I got tagged twice for this meme, from Maricel at Property Crossroads and Helen at Musings of a Mobile Marketer. I’ve already answered the 5 things meme at the other blog (must be inflation) so here are those repeated plus another 3.

• I’ve been knocked out twice in life. The first time was playing rugby at school and I hit the ground a little too hard. The second time was a little more serious, I came off a horse. Not too sure what happened but if the bruises were anything to go by I got well trodden on; the worst was fractured neck vertebrae which still give me trouble today.
• My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. My sister and I played games and learnt how to code in Basic. Which was the last time I touched code for 15 years until I learnt Smalltalk as part of an OU course.
• I was quite sporty at school. My poor parents did a lot of ferrying around – I recall playing 5 different hockey games one weekend. I represented the county at hockey and also played basketball and tennis for the school.
• I’m a qualified rowing coach. I started off as a cox and then decided it was far better to be in a launch with motor engine.
• I collect teddy bears. Little cute ones
• I ended up in marketing and advertising sort-of by accident. My background has always been project management; I was pretty good at picking up technology so drifted into the IS function as a project manager for marketing websites nad my knowledge has grown since then
• I have little formal academic background to the work I do. My first degree was in Biology and it is still a favourite subject of mine, primarily in the area of evolution.
• The US is the fourth country I have lived in, having also resided in the Netherlands, Scotland and England. Next up, I fancy Australia.

Not going to tag anyone further for this, unless you want to do it. ;-)