I don’t usually do these, but as I have been tagged directly, you’re now going to learn something new.

The Rules

• You have to post these rules before giving you the facts.
• Players state eight random facts/habits about themselves.
• At the end of the blog post, you tag eight people and list their names. (Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.)
• People who are tagged need to write about their eight things on their own blog and also post these rules.

(I think my omission of this bit earlier might have made this a fairly disastrous first attempt at a meme)

The Facts

1. I’m the first male in the Higgs family going back at least four generations who didn’t join the family business, which is a large solicitors practice in the Black Country.
2. I have appeared topless on page three of a national newspaper.
3. I have never smoked anything
4. My great aunt was responsible for designing a council-built sliproad off Icknield St (in the Jewellery Qtr., Birmingham) which turned so tightly that lorries would jackknife on the bend. It was revenge for the fact they had knocked down my great grandfather’s workshops to build the road.
5. I’m a mix of English, Irish and Scottish and according to family folklore, we’re meant to be related to Robert the Bruce.
6. I hate theme parks. The rides and the atmosphere even more so.
7. The first work I did on commission was to for luxury ladies’ shoe shop in Solihull, when I sold my GCSE IT coursework to them.
8. A 92 year old friend of my aforementioned great aunt, presented me with a Victorian knuckle duster when I was about 16 years old. It apparently belonged to her father, who was a vicar. I think it smells of blood.

Right, so the next people who will be cajoled into this meme extravaganza are:

• Stuart Maynard-Keene
• Ellie Hyde
• Kate Bolin
• Ben Ward
• Ross Riley
• Sam Hardacre
• Matt Machell
• Owen Gregory – Probably not suitable for your work blog, but hey!