{"id":1080,"date":"2007-01-01T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2007-01-01T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T20:36:14","slug":"annual-silliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"Annual silliness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel has tagged<\/a> (spattered?) me with one of those nasty meme things. If I do it now, that’s my lot for the year. So, here goes: five things you had no reason to know about me, and which I don’t mind sharing with the world. That last stipulation, I know, rules out the possibility that they might be very interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n

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  1. I grew up pretty much bilingual in English and Serbo-Croat because we moved to Belgrade when I was three. After six months in an English boarding school, I had forgotten all my serbo-croat by the time I was nine. I can now just about spell out words in cyrillic, and I remember the Serbian word for “arse”.<\/li>\n
  2. When I was fourteen, I made quite a lot of pocket money selling dry flies to the local fishing shop.<\/li>\n
  3. I was thrown out of Bedales when I was sixteen, so I never went to university, nor even acquired any A levels.<\/li>\n
  4. I was entirely happy in the autumn of 1986, playing trivial pursuit machines in pubs. I did not pay for an evening’s drinking for three months.<\/li>\n
  5. The night that Windsor Castle burnt,<\/a> I was the only journalist inside the building, since I was attending a seminar in the library.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    In a spirit of seasonal misanthropy, I nominate Jorun Boklöv<\/a>, Fred Clark<\/a>, Rafe Coburn<\/a>, and Larry Moran<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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