General Chat

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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

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.

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

No-one is boring - we all have interesting stories in our lives :-D <3

Much respect Sue - whenever I'm asked what I would like to be able to do - it's public speaking!

Very envious of you to have that talent :-D

Will get back to the thread tomorrow. I have to be awake by 4-30 to go to an agility competition.

As Suemaid says.....nobody is boring. It has been quite interesting in fact.....gotta go.....be good :-D

1. My great great grandfather was maltese (my oh says i'm a maltesa!)
2. One of my ancestors was captured with guy fawkes for trying to blow up parliament.(son says omg we have terrorists in the family)
3. I launched the blood doning appeal for Scotland 2003 on t.v
4.I met Adam(from countryfile) and had my pic taken with him 3yrs ago.
5.I have given 26 pints of blood and have my silver award.

Susan well well are you royalty then?

Interesting thread
Florence
in the hebrides. :-)

I've been on national TV due to my driving skills

Paul Young made me a cup of tea after we'd had a fight in a car park

I've done several parachute jumps and also wing walked

I have had dinner cooked by sumo wrestlers in Japan

My family's pub in Ballyhooly is featured on the "Pubs of Ireland" poster

1. I played badminton at Wimbledon.

2. I was part of a team that danced for the Queen.

3. I was a police officer.

4. My gt grandfather was killed in he Creswell mining disaster, his body wasn't recovered until 11 months later.

5. My nan lived until she was 102.

Chris

James I of Scotland is my 18xgreat-grandfather
(no biggie, I think half of Scotland is descended from the Stewarts :-) )

I have metal pins in my feet :-0

I have a toyboy (but I'm not a cougar!) :-0

I can sign for the deaf, and have a smattering of 5 languages, can swear in many more.

I'm a .................. hmmmm, I don't think I'll leave that one :-D :-0 :-0 :-0

My Mum was a Geordie but didn't have a trace of accent left by the time I grew up.
My Grandfather was married 5 times 4 were bigamist.
I've flown to Australia and back 4 times on my own and to America once.
That didn't scare me but I'm scared of and won't drive on motorways here.
I use my Dads saying a lot when things don't go right. " it makes you want you throw the whole house up the chimney"

1.... my son is amazing "altho some of you already know this"
2..... my mum is amazing "but dont tell her i said so"
3..... i once sang "the snowman" at the town hall "oh the shame"
4..... i had 2 of my fingers cut of in a door n sewed back on ;-)
5..... i LOVE christmas :-D :-D :-D

StrayKitten wishes to add:

6.....i get wine-flu regularly all year round :-D