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

Gillybob

i think that my OP is very boring compared with most of the others. Although I haven't lived a very exciting life so far .

I am really impressed with some of your achievements, confessions, likes and dislikes and can honestly say I have thoroughly enjoyed reading each and every one of them. So, despite recent events I am feeling cheered up and have even giggled at some of the posts.

This is fun.

I love dark chocolate, have some everyday.
Drive a little red sports car. always wanted one.
I tat, embroider and knit
I swim to keep fit.
Have 4 granddaughters.

Hope reading these has made you feel a bit better.

My favourite car is a Clio.

Kindle had a disastrous effect on my bank account when I first got it.

I play the flute now. It's never to late to learn.

I wish someone would invent a mug that looks like a normal size mug but stops half way down inside so it would look as if I finish my cups of tea.

I went to a boys' school, even though I've never been a boy.

Thanks kitty.

It needs to be 2 -- either side, daffy !

Sorry one word in the first line was supposed to be struck through. Why didn't it work?

I have Parkinsons which totally -pisses- hacks me off.
I was a ball girl at one of the Wimbledon qualifying tournaments - we were all given a ticket to No 1 court as a thank you.
At the Festival of Britain in 1951 I was part of a team who gave a hockey demonstration in the sports arena.
I love my Kindle.
I hate bullying of any kind and, on a trivial note, beetroot.

I was an evacuee from London Blitz during WW2 after being bombed out twice and machine gunned twice.

I have a big WW2 website visited well over 35,000 times from folk worldwide.

I never bothered to learn how to drive.

I like to help students with their WW2 history.

I love children and animals.

I have written books about the first 20 years of my life that takes in the war years, plus I have written poetry books and all proceeds from any books that I have written, after printing costs taken out, has gone to my local childrens hospice. I HAD so many folks coming to me about the book I wrote concerning the war from worldwide I decided to put it on my website.

I am now on quite a bit of medication due to the fact that I started with Epilepsy when I was 80yrs old and had a pacemaker put in when I was 82.

I have a super granddaughter and lovely d-i- l plus one very good son and I consider myself a VERY lucky lady to still be here and be able to join in any forums.

I am now 85yrs of age and carer of hubby who is is 87yrs and he has had Dementia for the past three years. It will be our 66th wedding anniversary on the 17th of this month.
Where has all the time gone. ????????????

I have a little known illness called Gastroparesis
I have a Nissan car
I write comic poetry for a hobby

Some more about me...

I divorced at 46
Remarried at 56....My ds gave me away.
I'm retired and love it.
My car has done only 8k miles in 5 years cos we always go out in dhs Qashqai.
Never wanted only one child...now also have three stepson, 4 boys altogether.
My best friends I've known for 35 years and 16 years.
I have lived in Spain, Libya and Belgium.

I love mushrooms.
I am a keen WI member.
I drive a fiat 500 (the second one I have had)
My DH once had breakfast with Prince Andrew

I was on the quiz show Fifteen to One in 1997, didn`t win, but wasn`t first off either. William G Stewart was very nice.

I can`t stand not having a book to read, so make sure there`s always a pile waiting.

I`m scared of the dark.

I'm working on it Bella! I also love a drop of whisky but I'm ok really

Might as well add a few more things whilst I'm here....
I can't ride a bike, have a phobia of cockroaches and dalmatians, according to my genealogy research my great -great grandmother was a hawker of fish and I love custard tarts!

Is that each night Rosannie? Just wondering

Bamm You've got no excuse then!
Unlike me and number, we can buy two of everything ( one for the twin)

I've been off GN for a while and have just spent a happy half hour reading this fab thread! Hope it has made you happy too Gillybob.

I have always been good at arty things but rubbish at all sports
I can only handle a short 'wash and go' hairstyle
I hate cheese and coffee

I got married pregnant at 17 but managed to have a successful career, get a degree and raise 5 happy children
I love going to the theatre
Can't drink gin, it makes me cry! Love sherry but it makes me talk too much, stick to a bottle or two of wine ??

Love Gransnet, thank you all for being such a supportive bunch of folks!

I'm back with more trivia about myself!

I'm not a bad cook, but I can't bake a cake to save my life.

I've just started a diet as I want to lose about 10lb before going on holiday in November, when I'll gain about 10lb....

I'm married to a London taxi driver.

We still have a son living with us, so no chance of empty nest syndrome in the near future.

My second chapter.

I live by the sea, the burn (stream) running down to it flows past my house
I once met Prince Phillip by accident(he wasn't meant to come into the medical library but turned right instead of left!)
I've been a vegetarian for almost 50 years
I can't stand stringy washcloths with holes in them. (Feel squeamish even writing that)
I spent a year flat in bed wearing an enormous plaster jacket when I was 9
My FIL and family left Germany after Kristallnacht.
I was at the first Isle of Wight music festival in 1968
I love anything 'crafty' and make all sorts of things

These are getting quite long. I might have to add another chapter to mine. If I can think of anything.

Sorry to hear you're a bit down Gillybob - hope all the super posts lift you up!

I love the seaside, especially North Norfolk coast
I have been driving for about 50 years and still hate it!
I feel happy when I'm making newspaper logs with a gadget ready to burn in winter.
I like making handmade paper and hanging the pieces to dry on the clothes line.
I work 40 hours a week for 2 surgeons.
Guinea pigs are a delight - great parenting skills!
My next door neighbour is fab.
I got my BA Hons at 40.

My first car was a mini, now I drive a Smart car.
I don't drive on motorways or even dual carriageways if I can avoid it.
I'm lazy about housework and love detective books.
My parents met in Holland after the war.
I work three days a week in a job I don't much enjoy.
I always wanted to write a book, perhaps it's not too late?

I love living near the sea
I have some really happy memories of a life which has been rather full of some very odd things, all of them legal (I hope)
Have a photo of me in my tinsel costume when I appeared in the school Christmas panto in 1943. War time and austerity.
My grandad was Jewish, didn't know that until a few years ago (my grandmother was not)
I have a woollen picture which was embroidered by one of my mother-in-law's relations, it is of the sailing ship on which he obviously served, and I treasure it. They came from Cornwall, and were all a sailing family.

Some of us coming around again with other stuff

Love, love, love this thread!

In 1964, aged 17, I appeared on a TV quiz show called Pick The Winner, Una Stubbs was on on the Panel and contestants received 2 pounds and 2 shillings expenses.

Most animals and insects terrify me. (Living in the New Forest is tricky)

I wrote a book about 25 years ago, it remains an unseen 4 inch pile of typing.

I have knitted Shreddies for my GC.

I love chocolate of course and sadly cake too
I hate mashed potato and anything mashed
I've never holidayed abroad
I love happy endings, chicklit and romcoms
I can't deal with anything to do with violence or cruelty
I discovered my parents were distant cousins through genealogy. They would never have known. Wish I could have told them
I find it hard working and doing two days childcare but adore my family