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OK, Andy and Luca, five things you almost certainly don't know about me...

1. I've had plastic surgery on my nose over 10 years ago. But only because the insides were so messed up (congenitally, not insufflatedly). It's not fun, and I've no idea why anybody does it for kicks. Wisdom teeth were nothing in comparison.

2. I've been paid to: scrape mildew off carrots in a private hospital kitchen, type in 10-digit application numbers in for weeks at a time, and correct misjoined nodes in online road maps.

3. I've just over 30 of the Scottish Munros (mountains over 3000ft) left to climb -- out of a total of 284. It's taken me almost 15 years.

You mean they have real mountains in Scotland?

4. My parents (now retired) were an aircraft mechanic and typist. As a kid we used to go on holiday to Barbados out of season (in summer) because with free staff flights and staff discounts on self-catering, it was cheaper than taking a holiday in the UK. We'd pack our suitcases with food from home as it was expensive to buy there! (My mother recently returned first class from Hong Kong -- and then whipped out her free bus pass to get home from the airport. Old habits...)

5. I met my wife on a free online dating site (back in '97) that someone ran as a hobby (I think this frugal thing is hereditary) and was listed on Yahoo! UK (cheers, guys and gals at Yahoo!). She was doing her PhD here in Edinburgh. She's Lithuanian, and our daughters have Lithuanian forenames (Laima and Daina), plus obscure British middle names that will do very nicely as online banking passwords.

I think I'll be a leaf in the graph.

Posted by Martin Geddes at 8:02 PM

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