Twenty five random things about me

I've been tagged on this meme by Duncan Borrowman, and so, here are a few things that you might be interested in or surprised by;

1. The first letter of the alphabet which doesn't start a country I've visited is K.


2. I've worked for the same (dis)organisation for more than twenty-two years.


3. I'm double-jointed in both hands.


4. A giraffe once licked me.


5. It took Ros to persuade me to get, and carry, a mobile phone.


6. I am an honorary Kentucky Colonel. There is no free chicken involved.


7. I once assassinated my freezer by trying to defrost it with a screwdriver.


8. As a child, I fingerpainted the garage doors, only to find out that we had no white spirit in the house...


9. I have a worrying knowledge of London bus routes.


10. Touch wood, I am yet to break a bone of any kind.


11. I was there the day that the Cincinnati Reds beat the Colorado Rockies 24-12 in a National League baseball game.


12. I've visited the most dangerous post office in the world.


13. In 2006, I held the hand of an orangutan in Seoul, South Korea.


14. The largest pyramid in the Southern Hemisphere is in Invercargill, New Zealand. I saw the family of tuataras there, amongst other things.


15. I have nine 'O' levels, one of which is in Graphical Communication.


16. You'll believe that a man can fly... like a brick. I can bungy but I can't indoor skydive.


17. It is my personal view that, if you marinate fruit bat in red wine for long enough, it tastes like kidney. I didn't say whose...


18. The European Liberal Group once put me on a policy working group to devise a cultural policy for Europe. It wasn't a success...


19. I'm the oldest member of my generation on my father's side of my family. It's a pity that we tend towards matriarchs.


20. I attended four different infant schools yet remain well-adjusted. At least, that's what my invisible friend tells me.


21. My horoscope sign is Scorpio and I was born in the Chinese Year of the Dragon. So much for astrology then...


22. My perfect day would be to zorb in the morning and spend the afternoon in a spa being pampered.


23. I would like to go to Madagascar to see lemurs in their natural habitat.


24. In 2007, I chaired the Foreign and Military Policy Commission of Americans for Democratic Action, the first non-Amercian to do so.


25. I once anonymously paid for the dinner of a young Bolivian couple when I saw him go down on one knee and pull out an engagement ring. It would be nice to think that they're still together...

I think that I won't tag anyone else. Is there anyone out there who hasn't been tagged anyway?