General Chat

Not boring at all GiN. I think I do though and wish I'd kept quiet now :-D :-D :-D

I will add two more things.....just because :-D

I am quite good at public speaking - I have spoken in front of 400+ people and on radio and television. I was also in a promotional DVD celebrating 20 year anniversary of the organisation I work with.

I lost my sense of smell 2 years ago, but now it's come back stronger than ever!

I hate wearing glasses, so I wear contact lenses

I married my toy boy

I once danced with Paul Jones of Manfred Mann

I miss Tyneside


I realise that this makes me sound dead boring!! :-D :-D :-D

1. I had Sunday tea with an aged aunt and a bachelor Billy Wright (football captain of England) in Oxley aged 7.
2. I was brought up in Wolverhampton and speak Welsh (English getting better).
3. Have been inside No 10 and No 11 Downing St at a party run by Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
4. Have always had perfect eyesight
5 Am going to be a grandpa for first time (aged 67 now) next May and am so thrilled :-D :-D

I have no sense of smell

I burn wood for a hobby

I love wearing hats

I am shy

I am addicted to toasted teacakes

OOOOO Kitty..so did I and I stank for days after.....I was ten and my sister and cousin stood back and laughed their heads off while I went deeper and deeper....I had a pure white dress on and my first and last new pair of white sandals.....wrecked they were.....I cried for more than a week.....I was rescued by a woman who just happened to be walking by and heard my cries :-(.......sheesh.....I am remembering it so well that I am starting to feel sorry for myself all over again....pass the tissues somebody.

My paternal gt. grandfather and his bro emigrated from Germany to England in the 1870's and were master cabinet-makers in North London. They made most of the furniture used by the Bloomsbury Group for the group's own artistic decoration.

My ma was an actress with ENSA and met my father in Italy during the war. They married there after 2 months of meeting and I was born the following year. They divorced 6 years later.

I am a 'qualified' gardener and love my garden and allotment (not a lot of people know that :-D )

I'm a bit of an introvert and happy in my own company.

I have several faults which irritate me, but I have finally come to the conclusion that they're in my genes and beyond my control :-( ;-) :-D

1. My Grandmother was an only child
2. My Grandmother had eighteen children
3. I once had dinner with Luciano Pavarotti
4. I met my OH on a Dating site
5. I have appeared on TV and radio

I have had a wonderful life

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

wow! My very first brilliantly interesting thread....keep them coming...my iPad battery is about to go so I need to rejuvenate it

Just one to comment on at the mo while I re-read the others

Dermot
1. I was born with a 'stiff upper lip' - but I'm not Brittish.
:-D :-D :-D

I once won a national letter writing competition

I have a 32JJ bust - yuk!!!

I have a toy boy

I can tell you how a cigar is made - worked in a cigar factory as a secretary for many years = Manikin

I was born 6 months after Mum and Dad married :-D

My lovely OH was a life member of the famous Welsh choir Pendyrus

I've just lost one and a half stone :-D

I have very curly hair

I used to bite my nails out of sight - now they are fantastic :-D

I decided to top myself in 1996 - failed as you can see

I) I fell in a silage pit when I was a child.....my brother pulled me out.

2) I fell off a tractor shed roof beam when I was an 11.....the ploughman broke my fall.

3) I was pushing my little cousin on a swing that swung back and hit me on the nose.......result 2 black eyes.

4) I once broke my wrist in 6 places

5) I still had a wonderful childhood.

XX :-D :-D

1 I am the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter.

2 I won a competition for a short story when I was only 14 - I beat adults :-D

3 I went on stage and danced with a Balinese dancer.

4 I can't sing to save my life :-(

5 I was only 19 when I married my OH.

1…I am adopted
2My Birth Mother knew the Kray Twins :-S
3.I met and shook hands with Terry Waite
4Rupert Murdoch had to stand aside to let me out of a lift :-D
I was given a ring by Ozzie Osbourne when I was 15

Reading back this it looks like I'm name dropping lol..
I used be able to tap dance like Ann and even do the splits .Sadly those days have passed now :-S.I would end up in A&E if I tried to do the splits now :-S :-S

sarah the witch
got a pardon a year after her death
as they found out her husband was having an affair
and he was her accuser with a neighbor
but its all over the internet about her
i got a email from a lady who had a tree match and she lives in the USA
she told me lots of facts about

herhttp://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nwa/wild2.html


the murders are well know in yorkshire
and theirs been books written about them
a father and his two small sons aged 8 and 5
the 5 year old was never found
and the dalesman (mag) has run the story

http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/23rd-november-1872/3/the-very-gruesome-murder-discovered-last-week-in-c

Dobby came to us in May
when poor Benson went to Rainbow bridge

1. I was born with a 'stiff upper lip' - but I'm not Brittish.

2. I obtained Cilla Black's autograph outside the BBC Shepherds Bush studios - c1970s.

3. I took 3 flying lessons at Exeter Airport - c.1992. Twin-seater Cessna.

4. Two of my older brothers were involved in stock-car racing.

5. I have 4 sibblings; but I'm the only one without a second Christian name. I felt deprived!

Wow Joy interesting :-)

Tell us the story of the witch and how you found out.....did you look in any old newspapers?....how long ago was it?


3? Hmmmmm not a good family to have been brought up in then.......have you got all the newspaper articles about them.....I ask cos this is one of my hobbies.....reading old newspapers and transcribing the juicy bits....as in murders
:-D


All grandsons are crackers :-D

When did you get a puppy?

1. Somebody in my family tree brought the first turkey to England
2. three people in my family tree where murdered
3. one member of my family tree was hung as a witch
4.My Grandsons a little cracker
5. if this little doggy doesn't stop running off with my slippers i wont be happy ;-) ;-)

Ah....well as much as I loved your answers Ann.....there would need to be quite a few more before I reveal my no 5 answer. :-D

tell me more about yours....I can tap dance too by the way :-D

How did you get into painting and upholstering horse drawn carriages.....I have always wanted one of them

I'm wondering what your No 5 is now SusanwithNos. :-)

Awwwww......come on people.....don't just view.....join in or I will get paranoid and think you are not talking to me :-D