Another ten fascinating snippets...
11) Until I get paid on Monday, I have £2.88 in my purse and no money in the bank. I am frighteningly bad at managing my finances, and it scares me. It is, however, a five week month.
12) My favourite flowers are anthuriums. I always have lilies in the house though, because they’re cheaper and easier to get hold of. Consequently, when anyone sends me flowers, they are usually lilies.
13) I’m dangerously addicted to trashy magazines, and spend a fortune on them. I appreciate that this is ridiculous, as they generally have few articles of interest and they just make me feel bad about my figure. But I can’t stop.
14) When I was ten, my parents bought me a very nice silver ring for my birthday. I lost it in a boating pond. I was terrified of getting a row, so when my mum spotted that I wasn’t wearing it, I told her someone must have stolen it in school when I took it off for PE. There was a huge hoo-ha and an investigation of my classmates, complete with bag searching and a lot of lectures about stealing being wrong. Needless to say, the “culprit” did not own up and the ring was not discovered. I have never admitted this before now.
15) I have slept with two Englishman, one Irishman and a number of Scotsmen. I have never slept with a Welshman.
16) I hate going to the gym, but am also afraid of getting fat. Consequently, I walk everywhere, and do an evening exercise routine each night at home. I am too mean to buy weights, so I exercise my bingo wings away using two large tins. One is three-bean soup and the other is spaghetti hoops.
17) In my twenties, I could often be heard to say that I would never get married and that I saw it as a form of ownership. I fear this has become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
18) I have a minor phobia about going for a pooh in any toilet which is not my own. Yes, I know that everyone has bodily functions and this is stupid, but I can’t help it. Staying in other people’s houses fills me with horror.
19) Like Tippler, I don’t drive. I wasn’t interested at 17 when all my friends were learning, and when I did take lessons in my mid-twenties, I was remarkably bad at it. After 20 lessons, by which time I’d never made it onto a main road, I gave up. My instructor was absolutely delighted.
20) My preferred soap opera is Hollyoaks. Even though I know it’s meant for 16-year-olds.
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I want to give you my weights because I never bloody use them, I got them on sale in some crazy designer shop where they were reduced from about 80 euros to 5. They are baby pink with chrome ends.. but you'd have to come to Brussels or meet in Dorset this summer which might be difficult on your budget. They would be a bit mad to post. Ah well they are yours if you think of a way to get them!
Posted by: honey | Saturday, 28 July 2007 at 16:39
I have never caught on to the UK soaps.
That said, about six weeks ago, I texted a friend and said, "what is the Hollyoaks and why is it not required viewing?"
True story.
Posted by: bob | Saturday, 28 July 2007 at 19:26