Started by Landers, copied by many![]()
1. My second name is Jane (go figure)
2. A priest refused to Christian me saying I was named after a Witch
3. as a result mum threatened to have me named Jezebel
4. Thankfully he relented and Christened me by my chosen name
5. My Ancestry is Welsh, though I was born in England
6. I was born in Central Middlesex Hospital
7. When I moved to Edgware, I was 7 and wouldn't walk on the grass
8. To get me to walk on the beach Mum and Dad had to lay newspaper on the sand
9. My Dad's name is John
10. Mum is called Maureen
11. I went to an all Girl's secondary school
12. I sang in the choir
13. I play the Clarinet (though not as much now as I used to)
14. I have played and sung at the Royal Albert Hall and Alexandra Palace
15. I used to teach the recorder
16. I sang in the church choir until I had my first child
17. I don't think I can actually sing, I just hide it well![]()
18. I once took piano lessons but gave it up after the teacher hit my fingers with a ruler
19. I never run
20. I like cross stitching, but don't do embroidery
21. I like reading historical novels and chick lit
22. I can see ghosts
23. I have odd dreams that sometimes come true
24. I dreamt about the Bali bombings two days before they happened
25. At the time i put it down to a bad dream until I saw what I had dreamt on the television
26. Both my children were born by caesarian section, my first ever operation
27. I broke my nose when I was 14, by tripping on a paving slab
28. At the time hospital denied it was broken and refused to take xrays
29. 12 years later it was discovered it had been broken and the bone had reset wonky that was causing my trouble with breathing
30. I have refused to have it rebroken
31. My first job was in a DIY store
32. I met my first boyfriend there who I didn't start going out with until I had changed jobs
33. My second boyfriend, and very good friend, I worked with.
34. I met my husband in a library
35. I had chicken pox in 1976 during a very hot summer
36. I was off school for 3 weeks and spent it sunbathing in the garden
37. When I went back to school I was browner than my Asian teacher
38. I was a member of the Girls Brigade
39. I have one sister, no brothers.
40. I have 6 cousins, only 2 I keep in contact with
41. I once dressed as a witch for a Halloween party
42. The green dye I used in my hair that was supposed to wash out, didn't, so for 3 weeks I had green hair
43. My Maiden name is a derivation of an Anglo-saxon name, and the name of a village in Southern England.
44. I have a copy of my family coat of arms
45. I never sew on buttons or mend clothing - I have a husband for that
46. I walked out of my A levels after an argument with a teacher
47. I later found out he was having an affair with a student
48. I want to live by the sea
49. I feel closest to nature and spirits by the sea
50. My sister sees ghosts
51. I hate marmite
52. I never eat fish
53. I never eat liver or kidneys
54. I love eating raw vegetables
55. I love cooking, just don't do enough of it
56. My house is currently a mess
57. I hate ironing
58. I am not very good at Maths
59. I wanted to be a teacher
60. I am glad I changed my mind
61. I am thinking of doing a degree, just can't make up my mind what to study
62. I feel at home in Wales
63. Nigel won't move there
64. We have settled on moving to Devon where hubby wants to go
65. I have just got to get enough money together so we can move![]()
66. The year I was born
67. I was close to my grandfather
68. He and my uncle tried to outdo each other with who can buy the biggest present when i was born
69. My uncle bought me a huge teddy bear
70. He still sits in my bedroom (the bear not my uncle)and hubby hates it
71. I used to have one of those sit in and ride cars
72. It was a police car
73. My Dad bought me a train set
74. He had to sell it when we moved
75. I loved my tiny tears
76. I still have it somewhere at my mums
77. I am really quite shy
78. I have problems with one of my ears
79. Occasionally I lose my hearing in it
80. I write lists when I pack to go on holiday
81. I write shopping lists then leave them at home
82. I once tried to write a novel then gave up as I thought it was no good
83. I might try again to write that novel
84. I am running out of things to say
85. I met Roy Castle during a concert I was taking part in
86. One of my god mothers, used to be my mother's teacher
87. My uncle gave me away at my wedding
88. My father went to a Frank Sinatra concert instead
89. I wanted to get married in Black - my mother wouldn't let me
90. I always wore black.
91. I wear other colours now, though I still tend to have a lot of black in my wardrobe
92. I have a set of playing cards that are of naked men
93. Hubby bought them for me![]()
94. He has a set with naked women on them
95. I flew in an aeroplane for the first time in 2005
96. I was flying to Shannon In Ireland for the weekend
97. A few weeks later I was on the plane heading to Florida, my first holiday abroad
98. I didn't pass my driving teat until 9 months after the birth of my first child
99. I passed 1st time but I had been taking driving lessons on and off since I was 18.
100. I am glad I have got to the end at last

rowtheboat

My mother was not impressed lol



Ooh, clairvoyant!
45 and 81 - lol