A couple of things you might not know about me.......

Hi Gillybob hope you are smiling now.

Used to be rather an extrovert but am much quieter now.

Drive a Renault Scenic but would prefer a smaller car.

Would like to be a female version of Jools Holland

Have given in excess of 500 professional talks, now retired.

IMO I am a much better grandmother than mother.

I am frightened of big dogs.

I love gooey meringues.

I hate heights and tripe.

I love liver and bacon.

I love driving.

I drive a Honda 4 x 4 (quite quickly!)

My favourite car was my Citroen Dyane.

I am a good cook - which still surprises me.

I can't sing or draw but am actually good at creating a welcoming home.

I hope gilly feels better because this is a great thread.

I love this thread - find myself thinking 'Oh, me too! So glad I'm not the only one!'

Hopeless at anything remotely artistic

And I always thought, crafting, that your username meant otherwise!

A little on me

Single , never married.
Do not drive
Music tastes Northern Soul/R & B, but also like Abba ,and listening to 60`s.
Watch Cycle racing used to race but now look at it couch wise
Involved with Bus Users UK attend meetings , also a CAMRA member but the later may change due to current illnesses, trying to loose weight and diabetic
Mick

Oh, Mick. I can sympathise! Not diabetic but have other problems. I'm learning to love Becks Blue!

I love Earl Grey tea,which I drink by the gallon
Enjoy driving along while singing along to REM, Rufus Wainwright, or Dire Straits cd's
Like cats and dogs,
Like wearing sandals in Summer, and all kinds of boots in other seasons but have a problem finding actual shoes that I like.
Love the sea, but never go in it.
Do too much gardening ( it ruins the nails) but am addicted to it anyway.
Read books when I should be doing housework,
Enjoy making things, or anything artistic,
Like a G&T with a slice of lime at the end of the day, a happy ritual.

Cheer up Gillybob.

Gillybob, what a wonderful thread this has turned out to be!!

Hope you're feeling better Gillybob?

Ive been a vegetarian for over 30 years but at Christmas I sometimes eat chicken. (to howls of protest from meat eaters.)

I watch a lot of daytime TV.

I have white coat phobia.

I love to crochet.

I help out at a Stroke Club.

I'm a member of the Towns' Womens' Guild and a Knit and Natter Group.

Gransnet has helped keep me on an even keel for the past 3 years.

I never learned to drive.
I like swimming in the sea (but only where it is warm enough)
I love drawing and painting.
I like local history and I am now addicted to British Newspapers on-line.

I love driving fast, playing loud rock music.
I just love driving, any time, any where.
I hate slow drivers and suffer from road rage.

I love camper vans.
I hate being static and just want to travel, travel, travel... preferrably by camper van.

I'm addicted to Scrabble and play it several times a day on my DS and online.

What a great thread!

I enjoy poetry.

I'm normally very shy.

I hate bonfires.

I once had an evening job dressing up as a pink elephant.

I am scared of moths.

Going round Sainsbury's this morning that I panic if I don't have food 'in stock' as well as the stuff that is in current use! I didn't even know that!

Hi all. I am a yoga fan and attend a weekly class. I feel that if I don't do any exercise at all my back will seize up completely.
It completely knacker's me out, but I do enjoy it.
Anyone else a fan?.

I never learnt to drive and don't wish to either. Too many nutters on the road. I feel nervous as a passenger even.

I also passed RSA In typing, many years ago but now, like many others, use an iPad. Probably wouldn't have bothered with that if my offspring hadn't bought me one for Xmas. But very glad they did as get a lot of pleasure from using it. I only know the basics, but that suits me fine. That's all I need really. Having said that, I still can't remember how to copy and paste
Oh well! Never mind,

I substituted Pilates for yoga as I couldn't get into the positions

I do Pilates at least once weekly

Ditto Aquafit

Ditto gym

I'm terrified when DH drives, but that only happens if he picks me up from the station. Then it's a white knuckle ride.

iPad a pain as it keeps me on GN for too long

Love reading poetry aloud if DH not in the room

Just off to walk to local Waitrose - about 15 mins, and if I spend ??5 I get a free paper. Then another wave of enforced idleness.

hope life feeling a bit better for you gillybob

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I love working out family trees
I live on an island
I hate custard
I love the 'William' books
Can't drive, but the island is only four miles long
Love learning languages
Cannot do sudokus. The sight of them paralyses my brain
Scared of flying in foggy weather.
This thread is fun!

I'm going to stop posting on my phone as it keeps missing bits out:

Going round Sainsbury's this morning, I realised!

I am scared of flying in any weather. I made myself do it but now we don't go on holiday I don't have that worry anymore

There is no beginning to ANY of my talents.
I would love to have a motor home and travel where ever,whenever,just fill up and go.
I have never watched an episode of friends,or big brother.
I hate X factor ,love strictly,
Have Irish blood in my veins quite diluted,but near my feet, which dance when any sort of Irish music is played ....think a recumbent Micheala Flatly..
I drive OH Ford Fiesta,
Love wine
and savoury food
About 12 stone,5"3,in proportion just heavy
Am built for comfort not for speed
Am boring,talk too much,laugh too loud,am an embarrassment to resident teenager,especially when Nan dancing
Would love a VW camper van in lieu of motor home

haha, aren't some of these things fun? Particularly like the posts from others that...... hate custard, are scared of white coats,keep a secret stash of KitKats [even though they live alone] have Irish blood near to the feet,
sound like a toad when I sing!

Love this thread
Drive a Mitsubishi Space Star, name Mitsi
Love cold jelly and warm custard, or ice cream and warm forest fruits
Wish to live near the sea
Wish I could still do the decorating
Love my Ipad
Have grown up and am now not scared of spiders, especially as dozens of spiderlings hatched out in our cloakroom
Love all my 7 grandchildren, from 25 down to 14 months
Love my garden, but would like younger knees
Love Mamma Mia, and the song, "Slipping through my Fingers"
Talk to all and sundry and love people watching
Still have my beginners width certificate for swimming, from school at 11
Cherish my friends with whom I lunch, occasionally.

I took the 13+ and passed, married three times, twice to the same man and I stutter. If I like something, article of clothing for example, I go and buy more just the same!

Great thread.

I love driving, learnt 40 plus years ago when I was a little WRAF in Germany and will be devastated if I ever have to give up.

I love my Ford Focus ST, but still miss my lovely red Ford Puma. My aging hip meant I struggled to get out of it so it had to go.

Am addicted to Chinese dragons, especially for the garden, and will drive miles to pick up my essential (completely unnecessary) ebay bargains.

Hate housework, though I love planning new things for the house and I quite like spring cleaning. It's the everyday housework I hate.

Hate being semi retired, I'm still on a bank contract for covering annual leave etc, but I miss the routine of daily work.

Love, love, love Bruce Springsteen.

Always said I was a cat person and would never have a dog. Promised other half he could have a dog when we retired, so 2 months ago we got a tiny Cavachon and I have completely fallen in love. Don't tell the other half, at the moment all feeding and clearing up mess is down to him.