What you should know about me!

[bobnick]

We have climbed up Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Yes done that

 

[bobnick]

I suffer from Cenosillicaphobia.

Many people I know also have this condition, and we have formed a support group which meets several times each week to develop coping strategies.

Ha ha, my google friend has been busy this morning.

 

[DDJC]

Can be up at a hundred years old and then down to eighteen in the space of a few hours.
About 5 stone overweight.
6' in the morning, but gravity & five stone drags me down to 5'11" by evening.
I was once run over by Des O'Connor.
I don't lie to my GP about how much alcohol I drink. And it usually is about 15 units a week.
I consider myself a cigar smoker, but haven't smoked anything since Christmas 2019, and probably won't again.
I write poetry and fiction stories. Four published and selling.
I am a terrific cook (so say my audience)
My main reference interest is the Artillery of 18 & 19 century.
Never read newspapers. I find it clouds my preconceptions, prejudices and opinionatedness

 

[PhilMary]

We have climbed up Sydney Harbour Bridge.

I've driven over it, or was it the Tyne bridge. One of them anyway.

 

[nicholsong]

I lived in SA for a few years and spent a bit of time living in the Bush, driving a Gypsy Jeep, trying to avoid Scorpions, going to sleep to the sound of Lions roaring and swimming in an African river-not a clever thing to do!
But I survived.

Agreed, because if you contract bilharzia I undestand the massive injection in the arse is very painful

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[nicholsong]

Since some people are posting 'firsts' I can say I was the first person to use the (then) new industrial wheelie bin facility at Canterbury P+R.

Just dropped my rubbish through the cover lid.

On my next visit I found out from the P+Rstaff that when it was housing was installed the installers left it open for use, but had not put a bin inside and it was a hell of a job to remove all the rubbish that had accumulated.

Geoff

 

[Rolly]

Whilst stationed on Ascension Island Jim Davidson did a series of shows as part of forces entertainment he had to share accommodation with us and communal showers, I was having a shower when in walked a naked JD I said oh you're not such a big star are you, he laughed and mentioned it in the next show.

 

[L' Hobo]

I've driven over it, or was it the Tyne bridge. One of them anyway.

I've driven over both many times and the same company designed (and built?) them. Easily confusing I'm sure.

 

[Bucket]

I ate the first Vienetta ice cream ever made.

There's a good anecdote behind this.
I was working in Walls marketing department at the time and the development team called us down to sample some new concepts, a lovely job as we got to try all sorts of ice creams.
The hand-made sample didn't look brilliant but when they cut into it the crackle of breaking chocolate was enticeing. Then the first mouthful was stupendous, We quickly polished off the lot.
Our enthusiasm was somewhat dulled by being told they had broken a golden rule of showing Marketing a product they didn't know how to make in the factory! It took another 18 months for them to work that out.

 

[Tombola]

Whilst stationed on Ascension Island Jim Davidson

I once "escorted him" off the premises of a hotel Gym with Richard Digence for being drunk.
With David Essex looking on Laughing

We have climbed up Sydney Harbour Bridge.

SO have I and I kept "snagging" the guide/safety line from the guy infront of me and he didnt have a clue...it did make me laugh each time he turned round.

I acutally did it with the famous Vincent Kellys brother (long story)

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[frwjd]

In 1976 I was given a police escort out of Athens then out of Switzerland.

The day after we re-entered Switzerland and saw the same policeman, we shouted to and waved at him and he ran off in the opposite direction

 

[RobbyMClark]

frwjd don't leave us hanging we need more info.

 

[Janine]

I used to fly with 633 Squadron. Yes, really!

 

[Vipar]

My uncle was the inventor of the “Mickey ” ice lolly we had to test every new invention that he came up with. He was so tight that we only got the ones that came out of the mould misshapen. He lived in Colchester then retired to South Africa where he bought 6 hotels

 

[old-mo]

I have met.... Jim Brown......

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[jolly]

I was presented with a dictionary at junior school for English by Lionel Blair

 

[emjaiuk]

Back in the day when I used to fly on business, I was on a BEA Trident that had just landed at LHR when the pilot announced that it had been the first commercial ’handsfree’ landing.
It made me nervous of flying for the next year or so

 

[Keep Right On]

I've got a blue peter badge

 

[denisejoe]

Used to watch West Ham when they were most of the England team and saw Geoff Hurst deck a centre half who kept kicking his heels the ref told him not to do it again’t
couldn’t watch 66 World Cup as I was working serving petrol in garage on A20 made £30 that day in “tips” from the Germans

 

[PP Bear]

I was once head butted by a huge grizzly bear

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[Phill D]

I was once head butted by a huge grizzly bear

had you stolen his trumpet

 

[Clive Beeza]

Let's find a little more about each other with a simple thread. Just one item per post and one sentence only. Make as many posts in the thread as you like. They might be be something like the examples below and i am sure many of them will be fun

I read the Daily Mail every day
I am saving for a Hymer
I am in love with Keira Knightley
I am a fulltimer
I have a twin brother
I hate Country and Western Music.
I am 6st over weight

Ok I'll start

I was conceived under a Monkey tree in Blenheim Palace.

When you get over the hill the views are great

 

[PP Bear]

One of our distance relatives was involved in the gunpowder plot and was executed.

 

[PP Bear]

Ex FIL was an inventor. He specialised in working in vacuums and designed a welding rig that worked inside the vacuum. His company won a contract to build missiles for the Yanks, due to the special welding.

He also designed and built the machine that put the bubbles in a bar of Aero chocolate, again in a vacuum so as the bubbles didn’t contain any gases at all.

 

[Outdoors Dad]

I used to play junior cricket with Paul Collingwood. I've just read he's off to the West Indies as England's head coach.......I'll be doing my usual menial job lol

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[PP Bear]

I can make my head explode, but can only do it once, so saving the gift for a special occasion

 

[vin0114]

I saw a guy once when locking up a warehouse after the twilight shift had gone home. He disappeared down a corridor leading to a self closing heavy fire door that took ages to pull open and ages to self close - he had vanished, true story.

 

[Two on Tour]

I have met and chatted with Colin Chapman of Lotus Cars, as well as Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth the two half of Cosworth Engineering, Formula 1 engine builders.

 

[phillipsheila]

My cousin is Elizabeth moss {handmaids tail}

 

[Two on Tour]

I had to go to hospital to have a peanut removed from my ear as a child after my mum said don't ................. and I did.

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