In the great facebook wars - the challenge has been set to write "25 things" about oneself. Insights into the pysche of self. Now I've given it a go, but I still think the 100 things I did earlier in the blog is much better, but I felt it had earnt a posting here.

1. My response to "what starsign are you?" or "How old are you?" is almost invariably "take a guess before I tell you."

2. For many years people described my sense of humour as "dry." I had no idea what this actually meant until many years after I first heard it. In fact, I only looked it up in 2008 when someone said I had a similar sense of humour to TV's favourite serial killer, Dexter

3. Whereas my main reason for buying property was to be able to keep a dog, the prompt that actually made me step over the line was the transgender prostitute who lived beneath my previous residence who, having decided that I clearly hated her, started to bang on her ceiling (my floor) to defend her territory.

4. I have a love of language and words. This is all founded in my love off and understanding of "systems" I think that the benchmark of having mastered a new language is being able to create and understand humour.

5. Bathtubs serve no purpose in my life other than to provide something to clean on a regular basis. I want to rip my bathtub out and put in a shower that makes me go "ahhh."

6. I have fallen in love with a person the instant I met them twice in my life - one I was fortunate enough to enjoy those feelings with, sadly the other, is not to be.

7. I yell at the TV and radio, mostly at "journalists" who elect to use stupid phrases and evoke emotions without any merit.

8. North America is a continent I have never set foot on, unless you count a few hours at Anchorage airport. (Clearly I don't.) I'd like to fix that at some stage - but I need a good reason to actually make it happen.

9. I consider myself British rather than English. I see a difference between the two, buy me a drink and ask me to explain it.

10. My dreams are always a collection of things that have been happening in my life of late merged into one dream. They have no other meaning than a review of different façets of my life over the last few days.

11. Despite growing up with a mother who was "huggy", my sister and I have both grown up not enjoying physical contact with others. It took me many years to enjoy a massage and I will now only go to that person for one.

12. I can't talk about her or think about her without fighting back tears. I have the collar she arrived with.

13. I never signed the certificate they gave me when I completed my first lot of chemotherapy. Everytime I tried to sign it, I couldn't bring myself to do it. The second lot felt like the battle was over.

14. Bridges have always made me feel uneasy - every time I crossed the Harbour Bridge during my years in Sydney, I prepared for the accident that would see my slow and painful death. Bridges in general will create a similar feeling whether I'm going over them, or under them.

15. I describe myself as "pragmatic." To some this is almost to a fault but.. they're welcome to a mile in my shoes.

16. I will not sign up for anything at the door, on the telephone or on the street. I've mastered the "closure" of their spiel.

17. I do not cry in public.

18. Things that serve multiple purposes and/or multiple environments attract my attention. My watch I chose because it charges by motion and therefore never needs a battery. My home phone benefits but does not rely on electricity.

19. I've come close to "liberating" a guide dog I thought was being forced to work for a grumpy woman.

20. Southern US accents do good things for me, very good things.

21. After over two years in Melbourne, the sight of a tram still gives me a little thrill.

22. My secret S Club 7 obsession was revealed at my most recent work christmas party.

23. When I'm upset I feel the need to judge the world, sites such as hotornot are a valuable tool for that.

24. My friend and I have developed a rating system for attractiveness that involves whether or not money would have to change hands, and in which direction.

25. I have a deep seated love of corn chips - there are times I would sell my soul for them - if I believed I had a soul.

There. go, be free.