Questions for you

joanlawson

It's a while since we had any questions about ourselves on here, so I thought I would post a few. I would be interested to read your replies to all or just some of them.

1. Where were you born, and where did you grow up?

2. Do you have a regional accent?

3. If you could choose to live anywhere in the British Isles, where would you choose and why?

4. What were your best and worst subjects when you were at school?

5. What did you do when you first left school?

6. What was the best/worst job you ever had?

7. What are your main interests/hobbies?

8. What talent do you wish you possessed?

9. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?

10. Which famous person ( living or dead ) would you like to meet and why?

Joan

joanlawson

Here's my own answers to the questions:

1. Where were you born, and where did you grow up?

I was born in Rotherham, S.Yorkshire, where I lived until I left for London when I was 18.

2. Do you have a regional accent?

My accent is a mixture of Yorkshire and Derbyshire, where I now live.

3. If you could choose to live anywhere in the British Isles, where would you choose and why?

I would choose Cornwall or the Lake District because both are beautiful areas.

4. What were your best and worst subjects when you were at school?

My best subjects were English and French; my worst subjects by far were Maths and Chemistry.

5. What did you do when you first left school?

I went to London to train as a teacher.

6. What was the best/worst job you ever had?

My worst job was my first one in a junior school with a horrible bully of a headmaster. I nearly left teaching because of him. My best job was at a school in Nottingham with an inspirational headmaster who taught me an enormous amount.

7. What are your main interests/hobbies?

My main interests are art/painting, ballet and the theatre.

8. What talent do you wish you possessed?

I wish that I could play the piano, and also that I was a more confident driver.

9. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?

I wish that all children in the world had food and an education.

10. Which famous person ( living or dead ) would you like to meet and why?

Living-I would like to have a chat with the Queen, and ask her what she really thinks about all the different people she's met.

Dead- James Dean, the film star who was my idol when I was a teenager.

Joan

tjt6768

1. Where were you born, and where did you grow up?
Born in Jimmy's hospital here in Leeds, never left.. Leeds that is not Jimmy's, but I do visit on a regular basis :roll:

2. Do you have a regional accent?
Oh ecky thump yes..

3. If you could choose to live anywhere in the British Isles, where would you choose and why?
I would love to live up in Keilder Forest up in Northumberland, would never tire of that scenery.

4. What were your best and worst subjects when you were at school?
Best was Englishness, worstest was Frinch, or as they say in Frinch, La Frogais

5. What did you do when you first left school?
Went home

6. What was the best/worst job you ever had?
Best job was Assistant Purchasing Manager at a tailoring firm. Worst was as a spud peeler/chipper in a chippy :shock:

7. What are your main interests/hobbies?
FIlms, music, staying in touch with friends, people watching and winding folks up

8. What talent do you wish you possessed?
The ability to limbo :eek:

9. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
I would rid the world of numpties..

10. Which famous person ( living or dead ) would you like to meet and why?
Would dearly love to meet Emily Pankhurst.. It would be amazing, I have so much ironing that needs doing :shock: :shock:


This is a great idea Joan..



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jillyb1

1. New Eltham SE London . 2. No accent , it's everyone else that does ! 3. I'm happy living in Brighton . 4. Was good at french and english , awful at maths . 5. Worked as residential child care officer looking after kids in short term care . 6. Best job ever ~ in a book shop , non stop reading as free perk ; worst ~ clearing tables in a snack bar . 7. Enjoy theatre , live music and watching the waves . 8. Wish could play musical instruments instead of paying to hear others do so . 9. To change the world would gather up the wealth and share it out equally . 10. Would like to meet Adolf Hitler and beat heck out of him . Jillyb

dreamdaisy

1. Born in Hillingdon (not far from Poppygirl in fact!) and brought up in Beaconsfield, bucks.

2. Usual Southern English.

3. I wouold love to live in North Norfolk.

4. Worst at maths, best at English.

5. I went to university. (Mind you tjt is closer to the truth on that one!)

6. Worst job was working in a laundry as a student. The best is (but now nearly was) my self-employment as a tutor for dyslexics.

7. I like reading, doing brain-tesasing puzzles, beer and men.

8. I would like to be able to paint.

9. If I could change one thing? Ummmmmm, I would ensure this country of ours had at least five hours of sunshine every day.

10. I honestly don't know. Jane Austen is a candidate (her novels are still relevant proving that folk don't change).

DD

joanlawson

Thanks for your replies Tony, Jilly, and DD. It's interesting to find out a little more about you.

Tony- Emily Pankhurst would have ironed you flat for that reply to number 10 It might make the limbo dancing a bit easier for you anyway

Jilly- It's funny how everyone else has an accent, isn't it? I guess that Brighton is a nice place to live.

DD- I like your idea of five hours of sunshine every day. It would make such a difference and everyone would be so much more cheerful.

I agree about North Norfolk as a nice place to live. I also love that area.

dreamdaisy

We had a short honeymoon in Blakeney, we know the coastline from Cromer to Hunstanton very well. Oddly enough I would like to live in Salthouse. I have no idea why, it just appeals! DD

stickywicket

1. Huddersfield.

2.Yes, largely thanks to the nuns who tried their level best to eradicate it.

3.Here. (NW Leeds). Easy access to the Dales, lovely neighbours, good hospital consultants (Sad, I know, but when you go under the knife as often as I do….)

4. Best – Spanish. Worst – I guess it has to be chemistry as I was chucked out of the class aged 13 as a danger to others.

5. Uni and freedom.

6. Best – I loved doing Christmas post as a student. Freedom (again), interesting people in outlying cottages. (“Just bung it on t’ lavvy seat, love. I’ll be down in a minute.”)
Worst – (Student again) selling ice cream in the market. When it was hot the boss made us tell kids we’d no 2p cones cos they’d buy bigger ones.

7. Watching cricket. Writing anything. ‘Walking’ with the wheelchair.

8. I’d have been captain and all-rounder for England’s women cricketers. In my spare time I’d have been good enough with the piano to play a concerto (Chopin, Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov spring to mind) backed by full orchestra. (My middle name is Megalomania.)

9. Get Mr SW to close drawers and cupboards and switch lights off after him. And occasionally wipe the loo seat.

10. Chopin. To thank him for turning his pain into my solace.

soraya

1. Where were you born, and where did you grow up?
Peterborough,
2. Do you have a regional accent?
Yes
3. If you could choose to live anywhere in the British Isles, where would you choose and why?
Cornwall and i do its so beautiful and quiet,
4. What were your best and worst subjects when you were at school?
Worse subject maths went on to work in opticians, requires maths...
5. What did you do when you first left school?
Worked in a factory
6. What was the best/worst job you ever had?
Worst factory/Best Opticians
7. What are your main interests/hobbies?
Poetry (writing) and Reading, gardening now with difficulty
8. What talent do you wish you possessed?
Dressmaking
9. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
Terrorism
10. Which famous person ( living or dead ) would you like to meet and why? Elvis, just to look into them eyes

julie47

1...Born at home, Nr Wakefield

2...oh yes :sad:

3...I would love to live at sherringham
why? because it is near the sea and the roads have pavements wide enough for my scooter. And its only 3 1/2 hrs away

4... Best subject english......worst all the sciences

5... Went to work in an office

6... Worst job was while I was at school I worked on a fruit and veg stall but only for one week, I hated it.
Best Job.....being a mother
I have only worked in an office on computers and part time at bhs and both those jobs were good.

7...I love reading and painting, card making and puzzles on ds.

8...I would love to be able to sing and play the keyboard.

9...putting clocks backwards and forwards. 1hr.


10... I would like to meet dawn french. A talented lady and very funny

joanlawson

Thank you for your replies, Stickywicket, Soroya, and Julie

Sticky- I sympathise with you regarding Mr.SW. My OH never puts the milk back in the fridge when he's made a cup of coffee, no matter how many times I remind him :roll:

Soroya- I like your Elvis comment

Julie- I think you are right that the best job is being a mother

NinaKKang

1. Where were you born, and where did you grow up?
Derby and Derby

2. Do you have a regional accent?
Apparently, yes, but it tends to come out more when I'm around people with stronger accents.

3. If you could choose to live anywhere in the British Isles, where would you choose and why?
Anywhere by the sea, I love the sea.

4. What were your best and worst subjects when you were at school?
Best - English. Worst - Maths.

5. What did you do when you first left school?
I went to college and worked part time in a care home.

6. What was the best/worst job you ever had?
The best job is the one I have now - office manager for the fire service. The worst one was the care home job I did.

7. What are your main interests/hobbies?
Playing with my girls, swimming, pilates, reading, watching films and the TV.

8. What talent do you wish you possessed?
I wish I'd learned ballet like my girls are doing

9. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
Injustice - I want it all to be FAIR

10. Which famous person ( living or dead ) would you like to meet and why?[/b]
Do I really need to answer?? Robert De Niro

Nxx

stickywicket

I think, reading these, I've just had a eureka moment. It's patently obvious that the main cause of arthritis is a dislike of/inability to do maths. (I was pretty rubbish at it too - just even worse at chemistry.)

Ankyspond

1. Where were you born, and where did you grow up?

Boston, all over lived on fairground and lived in OZ.



2. Do you have a regional accent?

Bit of Yorkshire and mix of the rest.

3. If you could choose to live anywhere in the British Isles, where would you choose and why?

By the sea with my hubby and kids.

4. What were your best and worst subjects when you were at school?
Been to hundreds of schools used to go for two weeks, liked English.

5. What did you do when you first left school?

On fairground living, then met my hubby in OZ.

6. What was the best/worst job you ever had?

Worst - Packing chocolates at thorntons. Best being a teacher what I do now (worked hard in adult education for it).

7. What are your main interests/hobbies?

Reading, music, concerts, socialising and being with my family.

8. What talent do you wish you possessed?

Play the piano and diet (not really a talent).

9. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?

Disease


10. Which famous person ( living or dead ) would you like to meet and why?

Living- Alan Sugar cos love how he made something from nothing.

Dead- Frank Sinatra so he could croon to me.

traluvie

1- I was born selly oak hospital and grew up in and around birmingham

2-I am a Brummy lass so yeah although my accent not as broad as it used to be

3- I love a few areas, i lived in bournemouth for a good few years, would love to move to weymouth, poole, ilfracome,cornwall anywhere around there, i absolutely love the beach.(can you tell .)

4-My best subjects were,Textiles,IT,Religous studies,Art and my worst was French and Science..

5- I went to college studied business administration and got a part time job in a shoe shop.

6-My worst job was working in the greenhouses picking dead leaves off flowers and packing them 5am-5pm,hated it with a passion and the money was so poor..My best job was an assistant jewellery buyer for a tv shopping channel,

7- My hobbies/interests include reading,playing scrabble(used to draw alot too but unable to now)Like doing anything creative.. i have a passion for dance music(i do miss me raving days ) I like to have a mess about with fixing things when broke..I never like to admit defeat, and if i can have a go at fixing something i will and if i fail at least i've tried..Has taken nearly a year of taking apart the computer, putting it back together,adding this taking that out etc and i still no closer too fixing it, but it keeps me entertained I used to do alot of sewing too making cushions etc..i have been asking for a sewing machine for oooh 10 yrs lol and i still not got one..

8- I wish i had healing hands, does that class as a talent?? lol or i would love to be a singer i love singing it lets out a whole load of emotion, i'm just not very good at it..

9- If i could change one thing in the world it would be??? i dunno that is a really tough one as i can think of so many?? will have to get back to you on that one..

10. Famous person..The only person i've ever really wanted to meet is Robbie williams lol..PHWOAR

Ankyspond

traluvie wrote:

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10. Famous person..The only person i've ever really wanted to meet is Robbie williams lol..PHWOAR

With you on the robbbie front, whoo hoo. Xx

joann1

Hiya joan

I will begin haha

I was born in sunderland and have lived here all my life, people say that i have a very broad mackam accent i dont think i do haha, if i was to live anywhere in the british isles it would be the lake district i love to have a drive up there when im feeling down the views are fantastic.
My best subject at school was IT information technology my worst was maths and still is!!
when i first left school i went to do a YT youth training scheme at a shop, it was horrible along with the owner who had to be taken to court, it was a horrible time of my life anyway i got through that and with the help of my better half i went on to work in administration in the hospital.
The one talent i would love to have would be to make everyone better in the world and i suppose thats what i would change to, i would not like to see anyone in pain.
im not sure who i would like to meet.

x x x

joanlawson

Thanks for your replies Nina, Anky, Tracey, and Joann

Nina- I guessed you would say Robert De Niro as the person you would like to meet. He's getting on a bit these days though, isn't he :?:

Anky- I'm intrigued to know about what it was like living on a fairground :!:

Tracy- You sound like a very creative person, but practical too with your ''fixing things'' skills. Very clever to take apart a computer

Joann- I share your love of the Lake District. I just spent a lovely week there last month.

Ankyspond

joanlawson wrote:

Anky- I'm intrigued to know about what it was like living on a fairground :!:

Joan,

It was a fantastic childhood although nocturnal as you worked all day and night and socialised after 10pm, still think that's why I am a night own and hate early mornings. Very hard life more a way of life than a business, not the same now though. Education was hard going to school for two weeks but we managed and seen and learnt a lot about life and people we always said 'street cred'. I woukd not go back now or want that life form my children as there or many more opportunities and fair people are very small minded and tunnel vision, I was unusual for marrying out of the business. I still have lots of friends and family on the fair and keep in touch with my best friends but no longer have much in common, after a couple of hours the conversation gets harder. Anything else you want to know ask away, I am very proud of my heritage and our head and all the kids I teach know about it which is always a talking point, ha ha. Xx

tkachev

1. born in Eastbourne, East Sussex
2.I'm told I'm quite posh with a tinge of Sussex countryside creeping in here and there.
3. pref back in Sussex countryside (if there is any left)
4.No good at maths best at Art and Gymnastics at school.
5.Went to art college.
6. best job; Mother, worst; data tap tapping for the Dental Estimates Board, Eastbourne.
7.Art and Gymnastics via the T.V nowadays.
8.Dancing.
9.Death -although the consequences would be suicidal for our already overpopulated planet!
10.Olga Korbut and Jesus.

Elizabeth

joanlawson

Ankyspond wrote:

joanlawson wrote:

Anky- I'm intrigued to know about what it was like living on a fairground :!:

Joan,

It was a fantastic childhood although nocturnal as you worked all day and night and socialised after 10pm, still think that's why I am a night own and hate early mornings. Very hard life more a way of life than a business, not the same now though. Education was hard going to school for two weeks but we managed and seen and learnt a lot about life and people we always said 'street cred'. I woukd not go back now or want that life form my children as there or many more opportunities and fair people are very small minded and tunnel vision, I was unusual for marrying out of the business. I still have lots of friends and family on the fair and keep in touch with my best friends but no longer have much in common, after a couple of hours the conversation gets harder. Anything else you want to know ask away, I am very proud of my heritage and our head and all the kids I teach know about it which is always a talking point, ha ha. Xx

Anky, what an amazing childhood you had :!: It must have been quite hard for you at school when you were there for such short periods. Did you go to Goose Fair in Nottingham? I always loved that fair, and when I worked in Nottingham I used to take my class to the official opening every year. It's part of the history and tradition of Nottingham, so I thought that the children should know about it. I don't think I would take that risk these days though :roll:

joanlawson

tkachev wrote:

1. born in Eastbourne, East Sussex
2.I'm told I'm quite posh with a tinge of Sussex countryside creeping in here and there.
3. pref back in Sussex countryside (if there is any left)
4.No good at maths best at Art and Gymnastics at school.
5.Went to art college.
6. best job; Mother, worst; data tap tapping for the Dental Estimates Board, Eastbourne.
7.Art and Gymnastics via the T.V nowadays.
8.Dancing.
9.Death -although the consequences would be suicidal for our already overpopulated planet!
10.Olga Korbut and Jesus.

Elizabeth

Thanks for your reply, Elizabeth. I'm finding out all kinds of things I didn't know about people on this thread I didn't realise that you are so artistic. Do you paint pictures like me :?:

traluvie

joanlawson wrote:

Tracy- You sound like a very creative person, but practical too with your ''fixing things'' skills. Very clever to take apart a computer
.

It's the taking apart that is the easy bit, putting it back together and remembering where it goes is the tricky bit.. :???:

joanlawson

traluvie wrote:

joanlawson wrote:

Tracy- You sound like a very creative person, but practical too with your ''fixing things'' skills. Very clever to take apart a computer
.

It's the taking apart that is the easy bit, putting it back together and remembering where it goes is the tricky bit.. :???:

I'm absolutely hopeless at anything like that :roll: I couldn't even mend a plug to save my life

tkachev

joanlawson wrote:

tkachev wrote:

1. born in Eastbourne, East Sussex
2.I'm told I'm quite posh with a tinge of Sussex countryside creeping in here and there.
3. pref back in Sussex countryside (if there is any left)
4.No good at maths best at Art and Gymnastics at school.
5.Went to art college.
6. best job; Mother, worst; data tap tapping for the Dental Estimates Board, Eastbourne.
7.Art and Gymnastics via the T.V nowadays.
8.Dancing.
9.Death -although the consequences would be suicidal for our already overpopulated planet!
10.Olga Korbut and Jesus.

Elizabeth

Thanks for your reply, Elizabeth. I'm finding out all kinds of things I didn't know about people on this thread I didn't realise that you are so artistic. Do you paint pictures like me :?:

Hi Joan
I can draw well but have not mastered the art of painting so stick to pencil.

E x

traluvie

delboy wrote:

1. Where were you born, and where did you grow up?
a. In a petri dish and grew up in a laboratory.

2. Do you have a regional accent?
A. Yes me dear.

3. If you could choose to live anywhere in the British Isles, where would you choose and why?
A. Hereford, want to go back to me dish

4. What were your best and worst subjects when you were at school?
A. There were no schools in the laboratory.

5. What did you do when you first left school?
A. Expanded my world by moving into a bowl.

6. What was the best/worst job you ever had?
A. Being a culture for a MOD project.

7. What are your main interests/hobbies?
A. Growing larger by ingesting stuff.

8. What talent do you wish you possessed?
A. The ability to move out of my bowl.

9. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
A. Make my bowl transparent so I could see the world.

10. Which famous person ( living or dead ) would you like to meet and why?
A. I would like to be a germ so I could get around more.