25 (Part 3)

OK, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to my 25 Interesting Facts, but I'm determined to finish it today. As in Part 1 and Part 2, blame Chev for setting this challenge. You should see the one he's tagged me with next.



15. I was in the school choir. No, really. Then my voice broke. Pretty much end of story.

16. My favourite piece of classical music is the Prelude from Bach´s Cello Suite No. 1, especially as performed by ace cellist Yo Yo Ma.



17. My first night away from home without my parents was a school trip to Kettlewell in the Yorkshire Dales.

18. I've never sung karaoke. Not that I wouldn't, with the right song. Wichita Lineman would do it.

19. My favourite chocolate is white chocolate. Proper white chocolate, not that too-sweet stuff they give kids. Louise thinks I'm a freak for liking white chocolate best... and not only for that.

20. Back when I'd foolishly decided I wanted to work in radio, I had elocution lessons with a posh old school teacher of mine. Didn't do me a lot of good, but I learned to read Ode To Autumn without too much Yorkshire accent.

21. If I had a penny for every time the phone rings or somebody knocks on my door when I'm on the loo, I'd have more money than Bill Gates. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the only time the phone rings or anyone ever knocks on the door is when I'm in the bathroom. What do you mean that's not a fact? It bloody is.

22. My favourite pizza is pepperoni. Or a combination, but pepperoni has to be on there somewhere.

23. When I was a kid, I really did have an imaginary friend called Ticker. He was a bomb disposal expert. I used his name when I wrote my novel Imaginary Friends, but everything else about the character in that story was made up.

24. Before he retired, my dad was (among many other things) a car auctioneer. When I was a kid, I used to sit in the back of the cars as they drove through the auction house and watch my dad conduct the bidding from his podium.

25. There is no 25. I am officially a failure.