Washed up in Ogygia

matildabj tagged me to do this. I'd been sort-of thinking about it for a few days, since mistraltoes suggested I could do just five facts instead of 20, and I'd got up to three things. But I've had to cheat a lot by breaking some of them down to get to 20. It took about 20 minutes, but I'm definitely not tagging 20 people; most of my friends seem to have done it, anyway.


1. I was born in a house about five minutes' walk from here. Walking briskly.
2. This house has 25 windows, of varying sizes. I think. The sizes definitely vary.
3. Two are covered by built-in cupboards, and I'd like to release them.
4. Twenty have secondary glazing, installed by me when I moved here.
5. Two are double-glazed.
6. One we couldn't work out how to cover with secondary glazing, so it's single.
7. My favourite food is cauliflower cheese, as long as it's cooked by me, so the cauliflower is al dente and the sauce is smothered in crumbly Lancashire.
8. Last night, I went to the Manchester premiere of Pride and Prejudice with ajhalluk.
9. I wore my green and gold salwar kameez.
10. Afterwards, ajhalluk pointed out that I had three degrees of separation from Bosie.
11. More happily, I have three degrees of separation from Robbie Ross.
12. And therefore, as she said, four degrees of separation from not only Oscar but pretty much the entire English homosexual underworld of the 1890s.
13. No, neither Bosie nor Robbie Ross nor even Oscar Wilde appeared in this version of Pride and Prejudice.
14. England are 95 for one.
15. There was a nice cartoon on the Letters page of yesterday's Guardian of a Dalek hiding behind a sofa to watch the cricket on television.
16. Actually, it mentioned some other sport too, but who cares about that any more.
17. The cartoon doesn't seem to be online or I'd link to it.
18. Adam from Woodalls has come to put up the extra length of fence over the space by the garden wall where the shed used to be.
19. England just brought up the 100 in the 23rd over.
20. But they've lost their second wicket in the 24th, both to Warne. Don't think I've ever heard such silence at the fall of a wicket.

[21. 115 for three at lunch. Hm.]