Always up for a challenge, I thought I’d give it a shot. Summing up your life, your achievements, your outlook, thoughts, hopes and desires in only six words?

A number of quotes from some of my favourite films raced through my head…too long, too short, not me, not quite, not everything that is me. The same with some of my favourite song lyrics. And then it came to me! The tagline of this here place!

Living on the edge – looking in.

The explanation, taken from my ‘about me’ here on NeonBlue Dreams:

“Living on the edge”, as the tagline says, is what I do – living on the edge of what my body allows me to do, living on the edge of doing the sensible thing, living on the edge of the fictional world in my head and looking in, and living on the edge of sanity.

I live on the edge in a good way (at least the way I see it), and stubborn to the core I continue to live on the edge, and will do in every way for as long as I’m able. My balance on the edge is somewhat precarious at times, but I haven’t fallen off. Yet.

Is it a game of tag where the one tagged is now “it” and races around the playground madly, looking for someone else to tag? Sort of, but with blogs – and it’s like tag on steroids because you have to tag 6 people. Phew! That’s a lot of madly racing around the playground. My friend Michelle has taken it into her head to “tag” me, so now I have a number of duties to perform…

Right, so here’s the ‘rules’…
1. Link back to the person who tagged you.
2. Post these rules on your blog.
3. Share six unimportant things about yourself.
4. Tag six random people at the end of your blog entry.
5. Let the tagged people know by leaving a comment on their blogs.

Okay, so I’ve done 1 and 2, so now onto 3…

1. My left foot’s half a shoe size bigger than my right one.

2. When I was at college in my vegetarian experimentation phase, my favourite snack was lettuce sandwiches with chocolate spread (nicer than it sounds, really!)

3. My all time most favourite meal is a kind of corned beef and potato hash-type concoction my mum makes on top of pancakes. The first time I remember having it was coming home after play school when I was three years old or thereabouts.

4. The first album I ever bought with my own money was Duran Duran’s “Arena”

5. The novel I co-wrote with my then manager James, a few years ago, “Womble Casserole” was inspired largely by lyrics from songs by the 80s depressives The Smiths’ songs, and the title “Womble Casserole” was a compromise – he wanted to call it “Rugrat Ratatouille” (and if it kills me one of these days I’ll drag him kicking and screaming back to the keyboard to finish off his final chapters! Resistance is futile!)

6. My favourite quote is a lyric from a Faithless song, ‘Bluegrass’:

…no matter how hard you try
You’re still in prison,
If ya born with wings and you never flyFaithless: Maxi Jazz

And so, having completed steps 1 to 4, I’m now going to tag Tamashii, Marjolein, Gill, Jem, JackP, Louie, the cutest little penguin on the IconBuffet.

I’d better nip off now and let you all know you’re tagged!