The Challenge.

The ever-delightful Lucy from Aus has nominated me to take the five-lies-and-a-truth challenge. I’ve varied it slightly. Five of the following six statements are partly true; only one of them is wholly true. Just in case anybody should want time to make a guess, I’ll post the answer tomorrow. Am I being self-indulgent here?

1 I have appeared three times on British national TV.

2 When I was forty six, a very attractive 18-year-old woman propositioned me. She said that a fortune teller had told her that she would marry a much older man. I didn’t bite!

3 I broke a toe playing rugby at age fifteen. Nineteen years later I broke the same toe playing cricket. They’re the only two times I broke a bone.

4 A scriptwriter for a British TV soap once said to me ‘You have an interesting way of putting things. You should write.’

5 During my brief time in the navy, my ship put into New York for four days. One night I walked across Harlem at around midnight, having no idea where I was. I saw nobody, but a shipmate who did the same thing ended up in hospital after he was attacked.

6 I once spent nearly an hour putting out a large rubbish fire in a warehouse full of dynamite. The boss later implied that he considered me responsible for the fire. I wasn’t.

At the fear of offending my good chum Shayna, I thought I would nominate her to do the next one. She’s a lovely person, and far more interesting than me. You can always tell me to sling me ‘ook if you want to, Shay.