This challenge has been going about for ever well for quite some time at least, and surprisingly I think (I don't know to be honest - who can keep up with mentions nowadays?) so far I have escaped it until @kaerpediem tagged me in this Ten Facts One Lie Challenge: Skeletons Are Coming Out Of The Closet which makes me feel obliged to rise to the occasion 😳

Now this challenge seems to be pretty straightforward, I list ten facts about me - 9 will be true and one will be lie. Next week I will do a recap post so we can see who found the lie, I will work out some generous reward system out for anyone that does find the lie.

Ten Facts and One Lie

1. When I was 7 I was fascinated by my uncle's Ferrets he kept in cages at the back of his house, one visit I sneaked off to look at them and decided it would be a really good idea to encourage them out of their little houses in the pen by sticking my finger through the pen netting. My Uncle came running in response to my screams to find a ferret securely clamped to my little digit. Needless to say I never poked my finger into the Ferret cages again!

2. Growing up with a farming family when I was young, when I was 10 I held a light bulb in my right hand and then held an electrified Cow Fence that sends an electric pulse every few seconds that stops the cows pushing through the fence even though it is relatively flimsy. The result was the light bulb flashing with with the electric pulse as my body transferred the electric pulse to the light bulb.

3. While on a Snowboarding trip with University, the French Ski Resort of Le Plagne had a fresh fall of powder snow the night before we were due to travel home. The bus back was due to leave the resort at 2pm, and I headed out at 9am to get a few hours of Snowboarding in before we left. Everyone else I was with stayed back to pack up and be ready chilling in the town centre before we left. After a few runs I caught a chair lift with a local Snowboarder, he only spoke a little English and I speak no French - but I got the idea when he said "Like powder runs". He took me on the most amazing off Piste areas of the Mountain surfing the fresh powder, it was the best part of the whole week but I lost track of time and he took me a long way from the main Ski Area. I made it back to the bus, grabbing my bag on the way with minutes to spare before it left and still in full Snowboarding gear! I had to change on the coach.

4. As a teenager I went on long Bike rides with with a few of my school friends, on one trip we followed a Canal towpath for many miles. One of my friends asked to have a go on my new BMX bike I had recently received for a Birthday present - of course I said yes and we were racing down the tow path when he clipped one of the mooring poles with the BMX pedals that through him off onto the tow pan and my shiny new BMX went sailing straight into the Canal..sinking to the watery depths. Fortunately it happened near to a lock gate that had a supervision building with some punting poles to align the barges. Using the poles we managed to hook up my BMX from it's watery grave and all was not lost after all. I didn't lend my bike out to anyone after that though!

5. In my late Teens I went to visit a friend at his University near Liverpool, we caught a coach to a nightclub which was out of the town he lived in some 10 miles. It had been a long day and as the night drew on I went out one of the fire exits for fresh air, sat on the stairs I must have fallen asleep. I woke up at dawn, the club was closed and the coach gone! Apparently they had looked for me at the end of the night, decided I had "got lucky" and gone home with someone and headed off without me. I made it back to his accommodation at 1pm the next day, it was an interesting walk and I didn't divulge to him and his friends what really happened 😉

6. In my early Twenties I got a puncture while driving on the motorway, fortunately I managed to pull over onto the hard shoulder and change the wheel myself for the spare in the car. While finishing my journey back home my legs became very itchy, when I got home and checked my legs I had multiple ant bites (and a few ants still) on them - in my haste to change the wheel I had not realised I was stood in the region of an ant nest and while I was rushing to change the wheel some angry ants had been climbing into my trousers.

7. I have been making YouTube videos since October 2009, and have had 66,300 views since then. The totals earnings in that whole time is less then one post I make on Steemit 🤔

8. I have lived in four main areas of the UK from Birth, Starting in the North, then I moved to the South West, Back North to Yorkshire and a short while in the Midlands in Stoke on Trent.

9. While I like writing and sharing pictures, I have no ability with technology and create all my Steemit content with my trusty iPhone - one day I hope to expand my horizons and learn more about these fangled technologies you all call "computers"

10. While you might all know me more for my terrible photography and #SublimeSunday tag, I actually make a living out of roasting and selling coffee both commercially and to domestic customers.

Somewhere in that random list is a lie, can you find it? Leave the number and the reason why in the comments below. After this post pays out I will do a recap post to tell you all who was right, and who was very, very wrong.

A big thank you to @traciyork who started the Ten Facts One Lie Challenge as a fun way to get to know fellow Steemians. Here are the rules to play:

🙌🏽 Post 10 facts and 1 lie about yourself
🙌🏽 Invite people to guess (one per person)
🙌🏽 Offer a prize (SBD, an upvote, comment, or resteem, or your undying devotion)
🙌🏽 Wait until the post payout to reveal the correct answer
🙌🏽 Use the tag tenfactsonelie as one of your five
🙌🏽 Tag your friends to do their own!

Now for the tags, and this is a hard one because this has been running for some time and I have no idea who has and has not done this. Obviously if you have done it once, there is no real point doing it again - so I'm going to cover more then the average accounts number so I get at least get 5 to join in. So in no particular order

@mikesthoughts, @felobtc, @mcoinz79, @christheaudioguy, @hangin, @hazem91, @edthecanadian, @thekitchenfairy, @bearone, @cooknbake, @krazypoet, @fiftysixnorth, @zen-art, @saffisara, @enginewitty , @ancapbarbie, @silverd510 , @terminallyill , @stephanus

Drop it like it's hot, I wanna see what you all got...if any of you have already done this leave the link to the post no matter how old in the comments below - just so I can appreciate it 😉

Some of my previous posts you might have missed

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Sublime Sunday

The C0ff33 Vlog 22nd April 2018

The Kolegas Tag - topic Glasses by @c0ff33a ☕️

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