I'm back

Well, it's clear that my readers have keener eyesight than I do, and are pretty quick, to boot.


In my last blog, I responded to a 'tag' challenge to reveal eight things about me that I hadn't done on this blog already, and I thought I was pretty clever by making my eighth item the statement that I was known to lie on occasion, so that one of the previous items was, in fact, an untruth. Quite sassy.


That seemed to have caused a bit of interest among some readers, who emailed me their guesses as to which of the 'facts' was the fabrication, and I enjoyed their theories and suppositions very much, and felt that my little exercise had been a success.


It took one of my favourite readers and sister-in-law, however, to put me quite properly in my place when she pointed out that, although I might be able to make up a convincing story, my arithmetical skills left something to be desired, and I had listed only seven items, in total, and not the required eight. It seems I missed an item #4 in my list, so my joke actually backfired on me.



Now this puts me into a slight conundrum. I could go back and edit that post, slipping an item #4 in artfully, and deny I ever missed it out, causing my poor sister-in-law to doubt her own counting abilities; but I really don't think I could pull it off (although I did consider it for a moment or two, Jane.) I could now relate an item #4 to add to the list, but clearly it would have to be a true one, as I already indicated that there's a lie in the previous list, and that only one item is a lie. That would kind of ruin the joke.



Or, I could just 'fess up and admit that I failed, technically, in playing the tag game and only submitted seven items for the blog, one of which is a lie, and move on, head high, but not quite so smug as I was at the end of the last entry.



And that's what I've decided to do.