Matt’s Believe it or Not (aka 8 Things About Me)

Okey-dokey. Roger Morris kindly nominated me in a recent blog entry to publish 8 things about me most of you out there do not know.
And like Roger, one of those 8 is a lie. So here goes…

1. When I was a teenager, I was a member of a rock band despite not singing nor playing a musical instrument (and no, I wasn’t like Bez out of the Happy Mondays either).

2. As a child I would talk to plug-sockets believing “little people” lived in them.

3. A couple of years ago, a student at Sheffield University took a photo of me believing I was Ricky Gervais.

4. I’m not a big fan of heights, despite scaling a 60 metre (around 196 feet) high tree in Australia with nothing but a flimsy mesh-wire cage to stop me plummeting to my death.

5. Included in the original version of The Secret War, was a long sex-scene that was excised due to the economy of words. Ah well…

6. I once hiked up a glacier in New Zealand.

7. I hate sprouts (they make me convulse).

8. My only truly near death experience occurred during a car accident in the Peak District, where I rolled the vehicle three times and flipped it boot over bonnet. Apparently it was quite spectacular, according to the police officer who watched it all unfold – he was there attending the scene of another car accident that occurred in the same spot ten minutes earlier.

Anyway, if you have an idea which one is the bare-cheeked lie, just add a comment below!