Eve made me do it...

I don't know how she does it, but Eve somehow manages to get me to do things that aren't always good for me - like singing Bohemian Rhaps-ID! So, when she challenged a group of us to blog about five things not widely known about ourselves, I felt compelled... but somehow nervous. Anyway, without further ado:

• Lots of people know I'm English. But not a lot of people know that I come from the Isle of Wight, the smallest ceremonial county in England, and home to the Isle of Wight Rock Festival, England's very own Woodstock.
• I played American Football in England, and was a wide-receiver and cornerback for the (now defunct) semi-professional "Ashford Cruisers" in the UK's first American Football league. Now that I live in the USA, I play a different kind of football...
• I can swear a little in Dutch. I traveled quite a lot when I left high school. One of the things that was common in people I met in other countries was their desire to teach me insults in their language - don't ask me why! One of my favourites was the Hebrew "I'm me, and you are my mule".
  
• Prior to becoming a software developer, I picked grapes and helped tend a vineyard. I grew up on a small farm, and spent a couple of years working on several other farms before finally deciding that I'd rather be artificially intelligent than the real thing...
• I have been a big fan of the Beatles all my life, and I think many of their songs are mathematically perfect. But more interestingly (perhaps), when we got our first dog (I was 8 years old) I named her "Lucy" after Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds.

I don't yet recall five other people I know who have blogs, but who haven't already been tagged, but if I think of some, I'll put them up...