Dipping Into The Water Butt

• Forty Seven
• Mother of three, or four (depending on how you see things)
• Kind of with Richard, a miserable pomp who sometimes makes me laugh
• Freelance Writer
• Aspiring Novelist (although I’ll never write a book - I get bored with the story and want to start another)
• Originally from Stratford, East London but left at nineteen to live in Norway. Came back to England eight years ago. Now live in Cheshire but not the posh part.
• Have Short Bowel Syndrome (that means I don’t have much bowel so am intravenously fed)
• Have Peripheral Vascular Disease (that means the arteries in my legs are all clogged up with nasty, fatty stuff so walking’s quite uncomfortable).
• Absolutely love dogs
• Would love to have a cat but the doctors at the hospital say I can’t
• Like gardening (although if you saw mine, you wouldn’t think so)
• Like reading
• Like learning
• Am always willing to try new things
• Am an optimist
• Wear size 9 shoes. Used to wear size 10 but feet have shrunk!
• Am a shoe-a-phile (if such a thing exists). I have around forty pairs and that’s after getting rid of a lot!
• Love people but am fussy about who I’ll have as part of my life. Too many negative vibes aren’t healthy!
• Believe in living your dream. Life’s too short for anything else
• Watch very little TV and have difficulty understanding why so many people let it run their lives
• Am rarely, if ever, bored - life has far too much to offer for boredom to be a problem
• Would love to visit Africa but can’t yet because there’s no bloomin’ malaria prevention I can take at the moment
• Home-made pizza is my favourite food followed by stew and dumplings (notice how healthy my meal choices are?). A good, home-made pie goes down well, too
• Drink gallons of water every day. If I lived down south, I probably wouldn’t
• Used to smoke 50 cigarettes a day
• Gave up smoking in February 2002
• Read the Daily Express (should I be worried?) and The Independent but try to get the news from as many different sources as possible
• Have around 50 books on my TBR shelf and still buy ‘em quicker than I can read ‘em
• Am a very sloooooow reader
• Speak fluent Norwegian
• Never stick with something once it stops interesting me just because people expect me to ‘persevere’. Why waste time on things you don’t enjoy when there are so many others things you could be doing instead?
• Am an only child (Spoilt? Moi? Never!)
• I love a good laugh
• I’m not afraid of making a tit of myself (why should we “grow up”?)
• Kept fancy rats for donkey’s years (the last one really was the last, though)
• Have lived with a dog since I was a bump.
• Have two dogs, both mutts
• Can’t stand spiders and am very frightened by the big black scuttling things that come into the house in autumn
• Love 50s music and culture
• Am also fascinated by the late Victorian/Edwardian eras
• Love any music that’s dancable
• Have two wonderful daughters who have made me proud in so many ways
• Can’t stand violence of any kind or for any reason - it’s NEVER the answer
• Have a son with profound learning difficulties but who’s the most loving, kindest, caring person anybody could ever wish to meet
• Love having lots of candles lit in the evening
• Enjoy all sorts of crafts including knitting, crochet, embroidery, sewing, soap making, painting… the list is endless
• Am not afraid of death but am afraid of no longer being alive
• Drink Vodka and Lemonade during summer and Rum & Black during winter
• Can’t live without music
• Can easily live without the TV
• Came very close to becoming an alcoholic during my 20s
• Can now drink until it comes out of my ears and still not get drunk
• Have given birth to and raised a child who the result of a rape
• Think live music and stand up comedy are the best forms of entertainment
• Love going for a meal in a nice country pub
• Enjoy going to the theatre, especially musicals
• Quite like the ballet but opera leaves me cold
• Love “Cathedral City” Cheddar although cheese doesn’t always love me
• Like Orange Juice with bits in
• Was a telex operator during the late 70s/early 80s
• The first computer I ever used was an IBM 8088 (ca. 1981)
• Have lots of indoor plants
• Taught myself to knit and crochet when my grandmother refused to teach me because she didn’t believe I’d have the patience
• Have a flower tatooed on my right ankle
• Was married in a Baptist Church
• Once weighed 116 kilos (about 18st 4lb). Admittedly, I was pregnant at the time but that’s not really a good excuse, is it?
• Being an intravenous feeder was like being on a forced diet. I’ve gone down from 90 kilos to 52 kilos in just over four years. I much preferred being chubby
• Collect Disney feature length cartoon films
• Love old musicals, especially “Meet Me In St. Louis” (Judy Garland), “Singing In The Rain” (Gene Kelly), “Swing Time” (Fred & Ginger) and… oh, there are just too many to list!
• Love modern day musicals like “Grease”, “Dirty Dancing” and “The Lion King” (yes, I know it’s a cartoon but it’s still classed as a musical)
• I’m hopeless with anything that involves numbers. Can’t do math and can never remember a telephone number
• If I had to have sex with another man, I know exactly who it would be. It’d never happen though
• Prefer Bovril to tea or coffee
• Was once addicted to Coca Cola. Wicked stuff.
• Am a bit of a flirt
• Sometimes think one thing but do something completely different
• Have an atrocious memory
• Can swim but really don’t enjoy it
• I can’t touch my nose with my tongue but I can cross my eyes
• Don’t do jealousy and don’t expect others to pull the jealous card on me either
• Believe that there are many truths and many normalities. As long as somebody isn’t hurting another person or creature, then who are we to tell them how to live their lives?
• Am a member of the LibDems
• Had a variety of jobs including: stuffing leaflets through doors in crap weather, cleaning in a dentist’s surgery, designing promotional goods, building websites, giving out numbers on 192, child minding, operating a telex machine (remember them?), answered telephones on old-fashioned switchboards (ever seen a doll’s eye?), flogged toys on a market stall, sold Ann Summers stuff, lots of secretarial work and a job I’m not going to tell you about
• Have no desire to be like anybody else and wouldn’t want anybody else to be like me, either
• Whenever I haven’t been able to take paid employment (largely due to caring for my special needs son) I’ve always done voluntary work
• Haven’t been to a wedding in the UK since I was 15. Could somebody please get married and invite me?
• Am drawn towards unconventional lifestyles
• I swear a lot
• Love meeting new people, especially people who have lived unusual lives
• Hate making phone calls so tend to put them off for far too long (how did I ever manage before texts and email?)
• Am exeedingly glad to have been born female
• Not keen on shopping, although I can be persuaded to take a trip to town if new shoes are involved
• Have experienced domestic violence and it ain’t pretty
• Like watching “Last Night of The Proms” and would love to be in the audience at The Royal Albert Hall
• Used to have a photographic memory. I honestly don’t know whether or not I still have it
• Regularly visit our local Spiritualist Church although I wouldn’t like to label myself a member of any particular religion
• Believe in dowsing
• Don’t believe in astrology or Tarot cards
• Believe I have a guardian angel
• Am the black sheep of the family - have been told that I no longer exist for my father’s family (do I look worried?)
• Once started a charity to help the families of children who have been sexually abused
• Have been homeless (with three children and a dog)
• Have lived in a tumble-down house on a remote mountain farm
• Have lived in a block of flats
• Have lived in a 5 bedroom detached house that we built ourselves
• Have actually lived in 18 different properties (not including cabins we rented whilst homeless)
• I’ve lived in this house for 6 years making this the longest I’ve ever lived in one place since leaving home at 19
• Adore dancing but don’t have the energy for much anymore
• Would never bungee jump or do anything remotely similar. I’m far too much of a wuss for anything like that
• Won’t even go on the big rides at theme parks. See, I told you I’m a wuss
• Would love to train dogs for a living
• Would love to learn Flamenco but that’s out of the question now (peripheral vascular disease, y’know)
• Find it very difficult when people ask, “What’s your favourite book?” However, if pressed, the answer would probably have to “Needful Things” by Stephen King but it really depends on my mood at the time
• Have same problem as above when asked about my favourite author. There are far too many brilliant writers to ever be able to choose just one
• Privacy is important to me. I respect other people’s and expect them to respect mine
• Same goes for favourite music - my taste’s far too eclectic to have a favourite artist or even a favorite genre
• Am a lifetime member of The Limelight Club because they have excellent live music acts
• Am currently researching my family tree (and have been for years)
• Dogs are my favourite pets, followed by rats. Although I quite like cats, and some ponies are rather nice, too
• Took my daughter out of High School and gave her a home education instead (and she’s so much better off for it)
• Used to fear tomatoes. Now I just don’t like them
• Love the sound of gulls screeching at the seaside
• Enjoy visiting cities and experiencing the kaleidoscope of people but could never live in one again (city, not person, that is)
• Prefer flowers picked in the garden to those bought in a shop but try always to have a bunch in the house all year round
• Am against the breeding of brachycephalic animals
• Enjoy visiting art galleries although I know nothing about art
• Love antiques but prefer to put them to good use rather than just have them on display
• Am a free spirit and intend to stay that way. Nobody will ever get the chance to even ‘think’ they own me again.
• I do not nor do I wish to own any other living creature.

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