The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

Their Contempt For You Is Total: 8 things.

My reader(s) know that the Last Ditch is a graveyard to internet memes, but Martin is a nice young chap, a future professional colleague, a fellow-member of LPUK etc. Besides, I am in a very good mood still. So here goes with 8 random facts about me:

1. I am exactly two metres tall
2. My first choice of career was acting and my second was politics. I decided on law because I couldn't see how to combine politics with making a decent living. Who knew?
3. As a teenager I was a member of the Schools Action Union, which organised a school students' strike. I was briefly suspended from school for my (highly peripheral) involvement in that.
4. I met Mrs P. (then Miss D) in the sixth form at said school (a bog standard comprehensive) and we have been together for 35 years
5. I introduced the Misses P to live Shakespeare by taking them to see Nigel Hawthorne's Lear at Stratford when they were respectively 11 and 9.
6. At a meeting of my University's Conservatives, I was introduced to Edward Heath as "…an ex-Maoist…" He cheerily told me about his meetings with "the Great Helmsman"
7. I owe my interesting life as an expatriate to the great property crash of the early 90s
8. I own two iPhones; one English, one Russian (actually they're both made in China but you know what I mean)

I am tagging no-one, but do feel free if you want to.