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title: "Five things meme"
url: https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2006/12/15/five-things-meme/
description: "Consultant and fractional COO for scale-up businesses. I help founders, leaders and investors in scaling businesses create sustainably high performing organisations."
published: 2006-12-15T10:59:42+00:00
modified: 2026-04-11T16:25:24+00:00
author: Simon Wakeman
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# Five things meme

## Five things meme

Given there’s an end-of-term feeling around the office at the moment, I suppose it’d be OK to take five minutes out to respond to my tagging by [Richard Millington](http://theprplace.blogspot.com/2006/12/five-things-you-didnt-know-about-me.html).  
In case you’ve missed it, the idea is that you write [five things](http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/000794.html) that other bloggers wouldn’t know about you, and then tag five other bloggers to do the same.  
Having spotted a [post](http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/12/15/reference-to-real-life-activities-on-your-blog/) about sharing a bit more about yourself on Problogger yesterday I can see a bit more value in this too, so here goes:

> -   At the age of 20 I was qualified to fly a light aircraft solo (I can’t anymore…).
> -   The first record (yes, vinyl) I got was [Julian Lennon – Too Late For Goodbyes](http://music.yahoo.com/track/666381). It was free with tokens from a breakfast cereal I think (I was eight at the time).
> -   In my first job I was responsible for buying (among other things) feminine hygiene products for a High Street retailer, so I’m willing to bet I know more about towels and tampons than any other male blogger out there (just watch someone now point me to a male feminine care blogger – it’s all about niches after all!
> -   I enjoy running and cycling, have run several half-marathons and one day would love to run a marathon.
> -   I have a degree in geography, which isn’t particularly relevant to marketing and PR, but seemed like a good idea at the time.

So now you know!  
Over to [Nick Tatt](http://www.tinderhouse.com), [Ian Delaney](http://www.twopointouch.com), [Simon Collister](http://simoncollister.typepad.com/), [David Phillips](http://leverwealth.blogspot.com/), and [James Barbour](http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/blogs/jamesbarbour/default.aspx) to see if anyone else has the time to play.