The Caked Crusader Strikes Again

The Caked Crusader (blog link at the side) - whose lovely site is a mouth-watering treat of cakes and deserts - has tagged me. Here are the rules:

Write 5 facts about yourself, tag 5 people, and link back to the person who tagged you.

Here are the facts:

1. I was once Barbara Cartland's body double. (I'd like to point out that I look nothing like the Dame).



When I studied journalism, I was sent to London Village to work (unpaid) on a magazine, for 'the experience'. Here, I found myself writing about G-Strings, one night stands and Peter Stringfellow. For the Valentine's edition, the publication ran a spoof photo-comic about a girl trying to find love according to Barbara Cartland's rules.

Muggins here agreed to be the body double for Barbara Cartland - a picture of her face was photoshopped onto my picture. So, one January morning, there was I, standing on a high street in Fulham, in front of building site wearing a fairy costume and silver slippers, three sizes too big.

2. Just because I'm tall, doesn't mean I have big feet. I'm 5' 8" with size 5 feet. The smallest in my sixth form.

3. In the pursuit of a good story, as a journalism student, I once went for a "job interview" with a brothel keeper.

Our phone number was one digit different from an escort agencies. Six journalists in the house and how long did it take one of us to think that there might be a story in it? Months! You can see why I went into public health.

Anyway, I trotted off to a very nice hotel where I met the lady and her friend. It was an odd experience to say the least, but I had six of the biggest lads from the course on stand-by, just in case I ran into problems. Everything ended well and my fellow-students were more shocked that I told my Mam what I had done... rather than the fact I had 'gone undercover'.

4. Anyway, I got out of journalism because I thought health promotion was more interesting and decided to focus on sexual health - mainly teenage pregnancy and delivering sex education in schools. This was not related to my brush with the madam!

5. My first job with the NHS was in Hull.

So, I'm going to tag... Cinders, Soo, Vixx, Kai and Carola because I don't think I have tagged you before.