ღSamanthaღ (Sam)
10 things
Tagged by feejbe42 and pooka loves tomatoes.
The rules: If you're tagged, upload a photo saying you were tagged, put 10 random facts about yourself into the description, and tag 10 other people by adding them to the photo.
Many people have already done this, so I tag Danielle, Jasz, Robin, Sharon and anyone who fancies divulging ten things!
1. I have volunteered for a cat charity for over ten years: I have fostered cats and kittens (many of them traumatised or abused); I have trapped feral cats; I have done fund raising. All of my 3 cats are rescue cats and when I look at them my heart fills with love.
2. I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 12. I haven’t eaten meat or fish since then not because I didn’t like it, cos I did, but because I couldn’t, and can’t, bear how they are treated and killed.
3. I am happy to be alone. I can go a whole day doing not much, not talking to anyone at all, and wonder how the day went so fast.
4. My grandmother died in 1998. I have missed her every single day since then. At the end she didn’t regret the things she had done; only the things she hadn’t. She had never learnt to swim or type or drive; she had never been in a plane. One of the last things she said was “is it windy? I love listening to the wind when I am safe in bed”. For a year after her death I had dreams that I was looking for her which always ended by me waking up and having a panic attack.
5. If I couldn’t read or write every day I would go mad like the woman in the book The Yellow Wallpaper. One of the women in my reading group said “ah you are going to be our problem cos you’ve read everything already” (this was an over-statement but the sentiment was generally correct).
6. My partner is also called Sam – and his best friend is called Sam, as is my godson, and one of my mum’s dogs! We were slightly shocked at first, now we don’t care, and it cracks us up every time one of us says “Sam?” and the other says “yes Sam?”. We are Borg.
7. I didn’t like drinking spirits til I was 30. It was like an alarm clock going off, like “hmm … gin … who knew!” But I drink hardly at all now because it makes me feel ill the next day. It is a pest because I am British and, traditionally, we enjoy binge drinking.
8. I would rather answer my mobile than my landline cos I can see who it is on the mobile; I hate answering my landline because it could be anyone. (see no.3!!)
9. I wore paraboots for years, then trainers. Now I can only wear boots or trainers cos I get bad blisters when I wear a new pair of shoes in. I occasionally wish I could be bothered to break through the pain barrier and wear some of the shoes I own.
10. I love TV or films about ghosts, time travel, space travel, the paranormal and various types of apocalypse. Me and my OH regularly talk about the zombie apocalypse and how we might plan for this eventuality (I mean, really, what would I do with my cats?).
10 things
Tagged by feejbe42 and pooka loves tomatoes.
The rules: If you're tagged, upload a photo saying you were tagged, put 10 random facts about yourself into the description, and tag 10 other people by adding them to the photo.
Many people have already done this, so I tag Danielle, Jasz, Robin, Sharon and anyone who fancies divulging ten things!
1. I have volunteered for a cat charity for over ten years: I have fostered cats and kittens (many of them traumatised or abused); I have trapped feral cats; I have done fund raising. All of my 3 cats are rescue cats and when I look at them my heart fills with love.
2. I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 12. I haven’t eaten meat or fish since then not because I didn’t like it, cos I did, but because I couldn’t, and can’t, bear how they are treated and killed.
3. I am happy to be alone. I can go a whole day doing not much, not talking to anyone at all, and wonder how the day went so fast.
4. My grandmother died in 1998. I have missed her every single day since then. At the end she didn’t regret the things she had done; only the things she hadn’t. She had never learnt to swim or type or drive; she had never been in a plane. One of the last things she said was “is it windy? I love listening to the wind when I am safe in bed”. For a year after her death I had dreams that I was looking for her which always ended by me waking up and having a panic attack.
5. If I couldn’t read or write every day I would go mad like the woman in the book The Yellow Wallpaper. One of the women in my reading group said “ah you are going to be our problem cos you’ve read everything already” (this was an over-statement but the sentiment was generally correct).
6. My partner is also called Sam – and his best friend is called Sam, as is my godson, and one of my mum’s dogs! We were slightly shocked at first, now we don’t care, and it cracks us up every time one of us says “Sam?” and the other says “yes Sam?”. We are Borg.
7. I didn’t like drinking spirits til I was 30. It was like an alarm clock going off, like “hmm … gin … who knew!” But I drink hardly at all now because it makes me feel ill the next day. It is a pest because I am British and, traditionally, we enjoy binge drinking.
8. I would rather answer my mobile than my landline cos I can see who it is on the mobile; I hate answering my landline because it could be anyone. (see no.3!!)
9. I wore paraboots for years, then trainers. Now I can only wear boots or trainers cos I get bad blisters when I wear a new pair of shoes in. I occasionally wish I could be bothered to break through the pain barrier and wear some of the shoes I own.
10. I love TV or films about ghosts, time travel, space travel, the paranormal and various types of apocalypse. Me and my OH regularly talk about the zombie apocalypse and how we might plan for this eventuality (I mean, really, what would I do with my cats?).