Here are the rules which you must abide by if you are tagged.
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs
I've considered myself tagged by Marja, because I haven't done this before:
1. I was born in France, but we moved back to the UK when I was one, and then back to France when I was 11. I actually only learned to speak French at 11, but luckily languages are my forte, and I am fluent enough to correct French people's grammar!
2. I also speak German, Spanish and some Italian. I told you languages were my forte.
3. Just so you don't all think I'm a bighead, I will confess that I was always terrible at maths and science, although my story is that I was a late starter. I did eventually get good enough at figures to hold a job as Financial Communications Assistant for 7 years....
4. I am not a morning person. Let me rephrase that: I have a keyring stating "Not a morning person doesn't even BEGIN to cover it". I think you get the picture.
5. I have psoriasis, and have had it since I was 15. I don't let it get me down any more, but as a teenager I was terribly self-conscious. It is part a particular genetic make-up which our family has, comprising Type 1 diabetes, vitiligo, psoriasis and Graves' disease (overactive thyroid, which I also had in my 20s). One of my sisters has all 4 of those, so I got lucky by comparison.
6. I fell out of a window, fracturing my skull and getting two black eyes when I was 3. (This is weeks after falling off the top bunk in my brothers' room.) Apparently, I landed on the porch over the front door, and a neighbour's daughter came and rang the bell to say "er, your daughter's on the porch". My mother says I had to be tied down in my cot at the hospital because I kept bouncing around singing nursery rhymes while I was supposed to be lying still. I wish I still had that much energy.
7. I am an Aquarian. That is why I am so, erm, eccentric in the eyes of other people. Either that, or it's all due to no. 6....
I tag the talented Adrienne, my friend Maria (because I want to read her 7 things hehehe), the gorgeous Fred, who puts us women to shame with his sewing and crochet and fantastic vintage taste, my dear sweet Yizz, who I can't wait to see in July. Also, my OTHER friend Maria, who is always ready with kind words when life is "foo" ;) And any other people who fancy taking the challenge. It's been fun ;)