I've been tagged... sort of

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Anyway, the name of the meme is "Five things my friends don't know about me." Let's see....

1)I used to support Milan (the football team), but I stopped when Mr.Berlusconi, who owns it, started using it for political advantage. Since then I have no favourite team.
2)As a child, I spent a few years in Monza, where they hold the car races. However, I never saw one.
3)I have long been a Katharine Hepburn fan, and was rather unhappy to hear, after her death, of her voracious, promiscuous and bisexual lusts before she met Spencer Tracy. I was however much more unhappy to hear that in 1948 she worked for the Wallace presidential campaign, which everyone but her knew to be a Communist front.
4)I am quite a good cook when I put my mind to it, but I don't do cakes or sweets.
5)At 15, I wanted to learn to play the piano, but I was forbidden to do so - for reasons too mean and ugly to describe here.

Now I am supposed to tag five people. Well...
jennilee
theregoesyamum
kennahijja
privatemaladict
avus

Comments

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

Glad to be tagged.

Incidentally, cakes and sweets are the only things I can prepare really well at all. I used to be an absolutely disastrous savoury cook, but Mr Gun's been making me learn and now I can make approximately two dishes. I'm real housewife material.

Sad to hear you weren't allowed to play the piano. Fifteen was also, incidentally, the year I quit playing, after one annoyingly mediocre teacher (and the abysmal works of Eric Satie - I will never be able to listen to the Gymnopaedies again without ripping my hair out) turned off my passion.

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

That's so sad about not being able to play the piano. My mum wanted to play piano when she was a kid - she loved music, and she dreamed of being able to play. Her father, for some reason, decided she had no ear for music - and refused to have her take lessons.

My mum to this day claims she has no talents - not just for music, but for anything else. It's sad because she never wants to try taking up a new hobby. No matter what it is, she just says "I have no talent, there's no point."

[avus.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tag. And I'm horrified you were prevented from learning to play the piano. While I haven't had access to one in years, it's still one of my treasured (though very amateurish) skills. I value it as I value reading. It gives me immediate access to some of the Great Works of Western Civilizaiton.

By the way, if I don't respond to a tag, it may be b/c I haven't had time to go through my f-list. That really does happen quite often w/ me. Always feel free to give me an lj nudge.