A while back, Susu challenged me to reveal six random things about myself, but I haven’t had a chance to get to it before now. Hmm. 6 is quite a substantial number! Somehow 5 would feel like less of a challenge. :D

1. This year it’ll be 10 years since I first moved to England. I have no idea where that time has gone. It’s petrifying.

2. I don’t really drink alcohol anymore. I think I more than consumed my share when I was younger and at some point I just realised that, actually, I really don’t like the feeling of being drunk anymore. Occasionally, when the mood is right, I do still get drunk, but it doesn’t happen very often at all.

3. I recently saw a very inspiring TV show where Rankin was re-creating famous fashion photographs, from the likes of David Bailey and Cecil Beaton, in his own style. When he was making his own version of a photo by one of my personal icons, Guy Bourdin, I caught myself thinking ‘Hmm I would have done that differently’. Followed instantly by a sense of embarrassment over subconsciously criticising the work of one of my favourite photographers. Then I got a bit upset. Because something was suddenly very clear to me. I want to be a photographer. That’s what I want to do in life. And I got upset because I’ve wasted so many years trying to deny it for no apparent reason. One thing’s for sure though. I’m not wasting one more minute.

Picture: RANKIN. HOMAGE TO GUY BOURDIN – UNTITLED

4. I’m at my most awake in the evening/at night time. No matter how many hours I sleep I’m always dog tired in the morning.

5. I get lost in my thoughts easily. And also, when I’m concentrating on something I can’t really hear or see what’s happening around me. People sometimes take that for rudeness.

6. I create too much work for myself. And then complain about it. :P But it does mean that I very rarely get ‘bored’ (except if it’s slow in the office where I can’t control my environment, that’s soul-destroying), I always have something to do.

Well, there you go… not very riveting things but at least there’s 6! :D I think this has done the rounds in all the blogs that I read so I won’t pass it on to anyone else…

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