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1. I'm really a Catherine but hated it so much as a child that I changed it to Kate as soon as I left school.

2. LSH is still the love of my life after 25 years together.

3. I am very shy and would rather listen to conversations than take part.

4. I had a hip replacement at 18 and another when I was 32.

5. I am a very nervous car driver.

6. My neighbour broke my front tooth with a pea shooter when I was 8 years old.

7. I love the colour green and will buy anything just because it is green :roll: .

8. I am very uncomfortable talking on the telephone.

9. I hate shopping for clothes.

10. I am happiest when I'm taking photos on days out with my family.

11. I love to cook! My favourite place is my kitchen (it's green :lol: ).

12. I am happiest staying at home rather than going on holiday. I'd much rather spend money on the house than go away.

13. I lost one of my best friends to cancer a year ago today :( .

14. I adore my two boys.

15. I hate flying.

16. I am really terrified of spiders and have a panic attack if I see one.

17. I have an addiction to buying books.

18. I have very flat feet :roll:

19. I crashed LSH's car into a lamp post when I first started to learn to drive :oops:

20. When I was at school, I was in the synchronised swimming team :oops::lol:

21. I worry myself silly if I think I might have upset someone.

22. I collect old kitchenalia with a passion.

23. I am a coffee addict.

24. I am violently allergic to Voltarol tablets. I found out the hard way :lol:

25. I rarely wear trousers. I'm a skirts girl!

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I did this on Facebook not so long ago....

 

1. I was born in a pub- honest!

2. I think chickens are underrated.

3. I was asked to leave the Girl Guides.

4. My house was built the same year as the battle of Bosworth Field.

5. I find 90% of human beings tiresome and/or stupid.

6. I think the world is slightly brighter cos there are dogs in it.

7. I never believed in Love at First sight until I met my husband- Kablooey!

8. I don't have a a maternal bone in my body, how my sons made it this far is a source of wonder.

9. I cant sleep without reading something.

10. I don't believe in God.

11. I got married on a beach.

12. I'm scared of Maths like kids are scared of the dark.

13. I have absolutely no sense of direction whatsoever but I love maps.

14. I have a musical ear but no talent.

15. I've had 3 dads, they're all dead.

16. When I've finished a bag of crisps I always fold roll and knot the empty bag.

17. I'd rather drink beer than eat. You can't do both or you end up looking like Elvis.

18. I feel sexier now than I did at 20.

19. Picky eating really puts me off someone.

20. I'm a Feminist with a capital F, even though that's a dirty word now.

21. I got hit by flying glass when I was 2 and I'm lucky to be alive.

22. I love the sea, it always makes me feel content.

23. I have horrible nightmares.

24. I once bared my bosoms to hail a cab.

25. When I feel down I listen to ACDC very loud until it goes away.

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1. I could stay in bed (or on a sunlounger in summer) and read all day if someone would bring me coffee and biscuits :oops:

2. I get panic attacks in odd places and have had to give up scuba diving :cry:

3. I am a size 18 but imagine myself to be size 14 so am always surprised when I look in the mirror

4. I love cooking, especially cakes, biscuits and puddings (see number 3 above)

5. I love swimming but can't stand the noise in public swimming pools

6. I wish I wasn't so lazy

7. I wish I went riding more often as my horse is right there outside the house and there is nothing to stop me apart from point 6 above!

8. I am never sure if my OH still likes the person I have become

9. I love my cats especially the one who is currently curled between my arms and the keyboard making it hard to type!

10. I love my son but wish I didn't find parenting such hard work and could enjoy him more

11. I just can't get on with crocs

12. I wish I was braver

13. I miss my mum, dad and sister who all died in the last 10 years and have left me feeling very alone

14. I am not looking forward to getting old

15. I love looking at beautiful scenery on a sunny day

16. I love lying on a beach in the sun and getting very hot and then running into the sea for a swim

17. I love entertaining

18. I wish my curly hair would look more like Katie Melua's and less like Crystal Tipps (remember her?)

19. I simply cannot stand to wear my glasses and would rather go around in a fog than wear them when I don't have my contact lenses in

20. My eyes are so tiny and my eyelashes so short that I have to wear eyeliner and mascara at all times or I look like I have no eyes at all!

21. I wish I could find some boots just like my Next ones that are nearly worn out.

22. I like caravanning :oops:

23. I wish I could play the piano

24. I'm glad I didn't get the A levels I wanted as I would have studied medicine and become a doctor but I later discovered I have no patience with patients so I am very happy to have ended up with my current career as a freelance medical writer but I can call myself a doctor anyway as I got a PhD!

25. I love being self-employed as I can spend all day on the omlet forum!

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1. I lurve chocolate. Dark is best, milk, then white. Hersheys is yucky.

2. I love shoes. Last count was over 30 but have thrown some and bought some since then.

3. I love my OH. We've been together for almost 9 years now. Living in sin for almost 2.

4. I eat too much.

5. When my hair is down I can sit on it. (Makes trips to the loo a little tricky!)

6. I am right handed.

7. I love to sing and remember the lyrics to most songs I hear. I don't like audiences though. Plus I'm not very good.

8. I have a phobia of spiders and clowns (Typical we stayed in circus circus at a recent trip to vegas then! Do'h).

9. I'm actually quite shy. Until I know you, then I won't shut up!

10. I love to paint and draw. Mostly birds and animals, not humans - too tricky.

11. I get grouchy if I don't get enough sleep

12. I have 4 chickens (2 ex-battery hens, Babs & Gladys and 2 'normal' hens, Betty & Mabel) And no, I will NOT be eating them when they stop laying!

13. I am fostering a dog at the moment. Her name is Gina and she's an adorable lurcher/staffie cross.

14. I love period dramas and hate horror movies.

15. I'm a bit of a geek, I love sci-fi.

16. I fear change.

17. I hate self centered, false people.

18. I don't read books. Magazines? Yeah.

19. I am rubbish at Maths.

20. I cry too easily, especially when angry or nervous. This does not help my case but I can't help it. :cry:

21. I worry about nearly everything.

22. I'm messy and lazy. Always fighting my inner slob.

23. I secretly would love a tattoo but could never decide what of or where it'd go. Plus I'm a wimp (See also point 20 and 21).

24. I have knocked out my front tooth walking into the end of a door and have had my forhead split open by OHs random golf ball. No broken bones though *Touches wood*

25. I love bon jovi and don't care who knows it!

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1. I love dogs

2. I was once addicted to celery and ate 2/3 a day

3. I love all my grandchildren, but like to see them in small doses

4. I have never been a bridesmaid

5. I can do the splits

6. I was expelled from my convent grammar school

7. I love drinking wine

8. I am a news/politics junkie

9. I love reading

10. I think 90% of television is total rubbish

11. I have been with my DH for 33 yrs, he is my best friend

12. My best female friend is very eccentric

13. I am phobic about driving up steep hills

14. I can spend hours doing absolutely nothing

15. I love being alone

16. I hate being cold

17. I hate fast food, especially pizza

18. I like making people laugh

19. I used to be a ballet teacher

20. I would like to move from London and live near the sea

21. I am very untidy, order makes me uncomfortable

22. I won a cookery competition, my mum made the cake :oops:

23. Litter drives me crazy :evil:

24. I hate shopping

25. I never watch violent/scarey films

 

Tessa

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1. I am addicted to this forum.

2. My daughter is the light of my life and I can't wait for her to become a famous actor and keep me in a style to which I could easily become accustomed.

3. I used to be pretty good at throwing sun lounger towels into the pool.

4. I was at Greenham Common for a week and trudged three Aldermaston marches

5. I love scented candles and incense.

6. I am early retired.

7. Thanks to Gordon Brown my pension is worthless and I am broke ...well relatively.

8. I ran the London Marathon in 2006.

9. I climbed Kilimanjaro for my 50th birthday.

10. I like hunting for mushrooms in the autumn and going home to have them for breakfast

11. I got arrested by a Royal Parks policeman in Bushy Park for driving a number of drunken revellers in a Morgan Three wheeler when I was a student.

12. My step daughter is a police officer.

13. I aspire to more chickens.

14. After being a widow for 10 years I married again in 2007.

15. I have two Border Collies and a Cornish Rex cat.

16. I once had Baileys on my cornflakes for breakfast.

17. I read the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian.

18. I went to university in Glasgow.

19. I wish I was clever enough to learn a musical instrument.

20. I am good at photography .... well people tell me I am.

21. I am a gadget freak. My latest is a Power Monkey.

22. I have a Mac.

23. I enjoy walking holidays.

24. I can't bake.

25. I wish my deceased dad could have seen what a wonderfully clever granddaughter he has.

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Oh well... here we go too:

 

1. I never used to like children until I had my boys - I love them to bits - they're some of the few people I actually enjoy being with.

 

2. I love animals - most animals - furry and feathery - and I'd have a zoo if it wasn't for OH. (I'm slowly and gradually getting there though... :twisted: )

 

3. I want to move to a smallholding so that I can have goats, llamas and horses - and prefer shires to slender cute ponies. My dream horse is a Friesian (sp?).

 

4. I love drawing and painting (horses and people mainly).

 

5. I was brougth up a catholic... nowadays if I had to describe my religion I'd say 'pagan'.

 

6. Went to catholic convent school and managed to leave before being thrown out (hence 5.)

 

7. I was a bit of a rebel as a teenager, looked gothicky and said things just to scare and shock people.

 

8. I wish I had made more of an effort with my education. I'd love to continue developing my creative side, go to London St Martin's and do some of their courses.

 

9. I'd love to work as a knitwear designer, illustrator or just being able to sell my paintings.

 

10. I'd also love to work with animals.

 

11. Love cooking with nice fresh ingredients - I've been told I'm a good cook - won't follow recipes unless I can change something - can't stand peppers. So:

 

12. If I lost 3 stone I wouldn't be underweight... :oops:

 

13. I like Celtic music (actually, apart from rap I pretty much enjoy everything!)

 

14. Can't stand gratuitous violence in any way and I'm totally anti-war.

 

15. When I see a bad use of apostrophes I feel like torturing and murdering the perpetrator (exception to number 14) :lol::lol::lol:

 

16. I'm very curious and love reading (Terry Pratchett, Neil Gailman, Joanne Harris...).

 

17. I used to be fluent in French but now it's really rusty - Spanish is my mother tongue.

 

18. I don't look typically Spanish, I'm not at all patriotic although I feel an affinity with most Mediterranean cultures ...and the Swedish!

 

19. I adore the Mediterranean in summer and snow in winter - they make me feel happy. (Britain in spring and autumn is fantastic too)

 

20. Marmite hater - Black organic chocolate lover.

 

21. Don't particularly like the look of crocks but have never worn anything comfier.

 

22. I'm a bit of a feminist and get angry when I see women acting dumb because they believe it to be 'femenine' - grrr they do really get on my nerves! :evil::evil::evil:

 

23. I'm attracted to colour and have been known to buy things just purely because I loved the colour.

 

24. Can't stand lies, hypocresy and 'strategic' behaviour.

 

25. I've got an overdevelop sense of humour (I often need it with some people...) :wink:

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Here are mine, I shall see where they take me.

 

1. I am shy some would say anti-social, shallow, false people and liars annoy me

2. My immediate family are everything to me and I try my hardest to keep them happy

3. I don't get round to doing things, full of plans short on action :roll:

4. I am very lazy and self-centred by nature, although having children has made me

less so.

5. I put things off until the last minute, don't ever give me more time than I need :lol:

6. I love eating my breakfast in bed, my bed is my favourite place to be

7. I would go mad if I didn't have at least some time to myself each day

8. I find my children much more fun now they are older, we have a good laugh together

9. My OH is my best and pretty much my only friend we have been together for 25 years

10. I was a pharmacy dispenser for Boots before I had my children

11. I am naturally blond and proud of it although my hair is too thin, fine and limp

12. I am very low maintanance, because I hate spending money unless I am getting

very good value, and I am fairly easy going.

13. I love growing things and find the winter very frustrating

14. I grew up from the age of 8 as an only child because my younger brother died in an

accident, I always hoped that my parents would have another child one of the reasons

that I then had 3 children

15. My friends and I once went to Chester for the day dressed in bin liners we were 17

16. I love music, it motivates me and makes me happy. The only music that I don't really

like is country and western and bollywood

17. My house is usually messy and a bit grubby, but it is home

18. I have loads and loads of cookery books which I love flicking through

19 I love cooking tasty family meals and although I have a lazy nature I always feed my

children properly

20. I am a good listener and was agony aunt to my school friends

21. I have an odd accent because I had lived in Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and North

Wales by the time I was 10.

22. I love bright colours and would paint most of my walls yellow if I got my way

23. I love the sea but hate being away from home.

24. I love spring with it's warm weather bird song and lovely flowers

25. I would like to stop the world and catch up with all of my jobs, but I would probably end up on here instead, no self disipline.

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1. I love chocolate - has to be dark. Milk is ok, but white only if I am really desperate.

 

2. I have a serious collection of Lock & Lock boxes.

 

3. I have a strange fascination with stationary. Paper, envelopes, note cards etc

 

4. My pencil case collection is getting out of hand.

 

5. My OH thinks I am mad. I am know as 'the crazy barking fool'. :lol:

 

6. I have a tattoo.

 

7. I lost 5 stone a few years ago to get the job of my dreams.

 

8. I am rapidly going off the job of my dreams.

 

9. I was 'removed' from playgroup for pushing another child down the slide and breaking his arm :shock:

 

10. My OH makes me happy (most of the time). :wink:

 

11. I passed my Grade 6 singing exam.

 

12. Maths and I don't get on.

 

13. I speak German well enough to live in Germany quite happily.

 

14. I will never be thin/slim.

 

15. I don't drink, but am addicted to diet coke.

 

16. I love spending all day in my kitchen, baking and making jam.

 

17. I love the colour blue and wear it all the time.

 

18. I leave half finished cans of diet coke all over the house.

 

19. I can't stand personalised number plates. (sorry)!!

 

20. ! am always on time/make lists

 

21. I couldn't live without an open fire.

 

22. I could live without television.

 

23. Keeping chickens has changed my entire outlook.

 

24. I love reading and would like to be a writer.

 

25. I couldn't live without bread/crisps. (hence 14)!! :lol::lol:

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Here Goes!

 

1. I am the only teenager I know who is obssessed about chickens :oops:

2. I want to be a vegetarian but I'm not

3. I hate Rock Music

4. I like other peoples birthdays more than mine

5. I Love Christmas

6. I miss my grandad

7. I like wearing brown t-shirts

8. When I was 8 I used to fancy my teacher :oops:

9. I LOVE this forum

10. I come on here way too much

11. I dream of owning lots of chickens

12. I wish my parents would let me have a horse again, my old one died :cry:

13. I hate my dog :evil:

14. I have a favourite grandparent (I feel really bad about this :( )

15. I wish I tried harder at school

16. I am embarrassed about liking chickens and NONE of my friends know

17. I like Janty's name, it's cool!!!

18. I hate it when my mum calls me thomas

19. I want my dad to be happy with his job

20. I feel sorry for anyone when they are crying

21. I like giving people gifts

22. I haven't had a girlfriend for 5 months :(

23. I hate my science teacher :evil:

24. I love my computer

25. I think this is a great thread!!

 

Tom

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Mmm interesting psyco evaluation - here goes nothing:

 

1) I'm getting married to the most beautiful girl in the world in four months

2) Out of all the parents only one will be coming

3) I love my disabled dog and the rabbit we found under the neighbours car

4) I really don't like chocolate

5) I love fishing and would do it all day every day if i could

6) I have found (after months of practice) the perfect cookie recipe

7) I don't really like music even though OH is a professional singer !

8 ) I have a Blue Peter Badge

9) I haven't seen my mother for years and years but see my Dad every week

10) My best friend in the world is my Ex

11) I often gets stopped when using the ladies toilets in the pub as i look too much like a boy :oops:

12) My favourite car was my 2CV which i sold then bought back

13) I have the longest freckle in the world (as a result of scar from a motorbike accident)

14) I was a vegetarian for 9 years and now am a virtual carnivore

15) I've worked at the same place all my working life (14 years)

16) I get made redundant next month

17) I love Doctor Who

18) I have a cow's lick in the front of my hair which makes it look like a whirlwind hit me on the forehead

19) I have the ugliest brown 1970's trailer tent - which i adore

20) I don't drink

21) I do smoke

22) I love Noel Edmunds shirts on deal or no deal - and own i few similar ones

23) I want to live in Wales

24) I worry about the future

25) I am done !

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16. I once had Baileys on my cornflakes for breakfast.

 

 

:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

I've never done this but might just try it tomorrw. :D

 

ah but notice, she said she only did it ONCE! ;)

 

Poet is absolutely right!!! It was just the once.

A much better hangover cure is a bacon butty.

 

My late husband once interviewed Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor on board their yacht and they were putting gin into their cornflake milk :vom::vom:

Seemingly it was what they always did.

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1. I am addicted to original Lucozade, have to have a bottle every day

2. I met my OH on a blind date, it was love at first sight :D

3. I have my belly button piecered (sp?)

4. My spelling is getting worse as I get older :lol:

5. I am a smoker

6. I hate the smell of cigarette smoke

7. I am shy

8. I would love to have a Bumble Bee tattoo on my bum

9. I cannot stand the taste of alcohol

10. I love chocolate but am not allowed it any more (lactose intolerant) :(

11. I still get homesick for Nottingham even though I moved away 21 years ago

12. Our cottage is the first house that has felt like home to me since leaving Nottingham

13. I am so proud of my children and love them to bits

14. I don't wear makeup

15. My bed is my favourite piece of furniture

16. I am allergic to Aspirin and Brufen

17. I never wear skirts or dresses

18. I dislike having my photgraph taken

19. My favourite food is homemade rice pudding with a dollop of jam

20. I can't walk in high heels

21. Love to cook but hate the washing up afterwards

22. I often start something and never finish it properly..............

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23) I want to live in Wales.

 

You should move here its a wonderful place. We were here for a long weekend and didn't want to go home but we did. Then we came down two weeks later felt the same so went to look at a couple of houses and made an offer the same day. It's the best moved we've ever made.

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23) I want to live in Wales.

 

You should move here its a wonderful place. We were here for a long weekend and didn't want to go home but we did. Then we came down two weeks later felt the same so went to look at a couple of houses and made an offer the same day. It's the best moved we've ever made.

 

I'm so :mrgreen: . I've always loved Wales.

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