21 things that make me who I am today:

1. Travelling (of the backpacking, globetrotting variety)

2. Fencing

3. Geology

4. Travel writing

5. My palate

6. The Spanish Culture (especially the food!)

7. Foundation of the Twilight of the Deity series

8. The Game by Neil Strauss (not as instruction manual, but something to laugh at people who try too hard)

9. My Maori fish hook carved from cow bone (kept me save when travelling!)

10. Combined Cadet Force

11. Scarborough College Chapel Choir

12. Denys Crews House (and JD I guess, except he's not an object)

13. Impaired eye sight

14. Room 372, Selkirk Hall

15. You know Warhammer? Well, the Lord of the Rings variety of it

16. Whatever gave me the guts to face danger with a broad smile (bungy jump, skydive, hitch to Morocco, etc.)

17. The money I've got given (and kinda taken for granted...oops) to achieve all the amazing things I've done in my life so far

18. Robin my childhood and lifelong friend

19. Lonely Planet

20. The friendships I've gathered ever since my ugly face was declared present in this world...no seriously guys, I wouldn't swap them for the world. All of you. Now give me your tears.

21. The future.