10 things we dont know about you....

Wow, I've just read the entire thread and am completely touched by the honesty, its been great to hear how talented, quirky and interesting you all are! Big hugs to everyone ?

And Chicken (think it was you!) I remember watching that record breakers line-up!

Hats off to you Eric for starting this thread. It's been lovely!

Ah-hah, found the postcard:

I think that some of this you already know..

1. I'm convinced that all of this will come back to haunt me.

2. I remember everything i've done that has made me cringe with embarrassment and everything mean that has been said to me, but not so much of the nice things.

3. as part of the above when i was hating myself once i was really horrible to Rache and i die of embarrassment every time I read her posts as i was so unfair and i know she has posted so much to help me, for which i am very grateful..

4. I have crohns disease and i'm terrified of how bad it might get.

5. I love children, i love all the children in my life and i'd do anything for them, however i am not a parent.

6. I was a fish farmer and i have a degree in marine biology but i don't like to eat fish.

7. I don't know what i want to be when i grow up anymore.

8. I don't know where my accent has come from, its nothing like my parents'.

9. If i won the lottery, the first thing i'd buy is new double glazing.

10. I am excited as a person can be about cooking all day tomorrow.

Legless, one of my very best friends has crohns. she lives in bristol and had a huge operation here last year which went really well. if you want me to put you in contact with her let me know, i know her quality of life has been vastly improved since the op.

and have a huge ? from me. you rock, dudette ?

? legless and SK - I'm sure you're the only ones who remember this stuff.

I'm finding this hard too as I've been on here ages and lots of people know me really well.

1. I'm the youngest of five daughters

2. I was born in Zimbabwe

3. I have extremely poor eyesight - I'm on the border of being "low vision"

4. I am absolutely terrible with money

5. I hate bananas

6. I don't know how to iron and until I moved to London I'd never used a washing machine

7. I'm completely tone-deaf

8. I'm quite vain about my appearance but can't bear filing or painting my nails - it's the dullest thing in the world and I can't be arsed

9. My other half used to be my sister's boyfriend

10. I sometimes fantasise about my ex dying a horrible death and if he ever were to I'd feel absolutely dreadful

What a fab thread, i've just read the whole thing and sat here nodding to so much of it. I'll have a go:-

1. I was chained to 4 other girls and a newsreader for 5 days in a competiton run by Chris Tarrant on Capital Radio 10 years ago
2. I've sung a solo at the London Palladium
3. I've recorded with Sony
4. I did some items on TV for London fashion week while I had measles. I was sat there covered in chamomile (sp) lotion from the neck down with some gorgeous models drinking wine while being filmed for the BBC.
5. Despite all of the above i'm incredibly shy and anxious person and torment myself everyday by thinking most people dislike me.
6. I did a Tandem bungy jump with my husband while we travelled the world on our 9month honeymoon
7. I hate children and never thought I would have kids.
8. My 20 week son is the light of my life
9. I worry about my weight and think about food every single second of everyday. My weight fluctuates between mega-skinny to curvy. After having the boy i'm at the curvy end and I hate it.
10. I love feeling hungry - it makes me feel in control.

1. I have pognophobia (obsessive fear and hatred of beards)

2. Many moons ago, I passed a 90wpm shorthand exam,but never used it in any work capacity.

3. I am very vain and am always preening (I must get my compact out a dozen or more times a day-on the train, at my desk, anywhere). I can't help myself.....the thought of a stray bogey, run mascara, patchy foundation makes me come over all funny.

4. I have a secret plastic surgery fund. Not even H knows about it. If I get upduffed successfully later this year (I have grown up twin sons) I will use it thereafter for a tummy tuck, upper and lower blephs (eyelids) and lazer resurfacing. I am obsessed with my skin and the prevention of looking old.

5. I am like marmite. People either really like or can't stand me. As a person of extremes at times myself, engendering strong feelings appeals on some odd level.

6. I am saving to take H to Argentina as a surprise for his 50th b'day in August

7. Steve Mcfadden (aka Phil Mitchell) once tried (and failed) to chat me up in a club many moons ago.

8. I have to read 2 broadsheets and 1 tabloid paper every Sunday morning before I do anything. Woe betide H if he gets in the way!

9. I am obsessed with bread-all kinds. A life without bread would not be worth living for me. It is fucking up my insides but still I can't resist. I have been obsessed with it since toddlerhood.

10. I was in psychotherapy for 10 solid years until last April. I don't bat an eyelid at the thousands spent. It was an investment.

Right let me try this, it is really interesting reading about you all, I am far too open and tell anyone anything, so I have probably shared most things about myself during the years I have been on here . . My flickr friends are very likely to have read some of these recently

1. I was given at most an hour to live and my parents had to say their final (so they thought) goodbye to me

2. During the night I was 'dying' my heart kept stopping and had to keep being brought back, each time it happened, I was dreaming I was walking along a cliff edge, the walls of the cliff were bright red and I couldn't see anything when I looked down, just blue skies, my foot kept slipping but each time it did, i was resuscitated

3.I have had over 20 anaesthetics in the last 5 years, and more than I can remember in the last 15 years.

4. I love having injections

(Right enough hospital ones)

5. I love my son and husband so much it hurts.

6. I think I am very lucky even though others try to pity me

7. I read 65 books last year

8. Intense friendships scare me

9. I have an awful temper, people who eat loudly make me want to injure them.

10. I think about things too much, worry about everything, and think I offend everyone and often have sleepless nights worrying about what I said or did, even if there is no reason why I would have upset anyone.

Tis offical, I am a loser!

This is a really great thread

1. I worry alot about something awful happening to my H while he's away and wonder how i'd manage without him

2. I'm really shy and hate talking to people i dont know

3. I hide alot of my insecurities from everyone i know even my H

4. I've just learnt to knit and am v proud of the baby cardigan i knitted

5. I get on better with boys than girls

6. I'm overweight and hate it

7. I have no wilpower to stick to diets

8. I wish i could sing

9. I'm thinking of going back to teaching after giving up my PGCE 3 weeks before the end 2 years ago

10. I worry i dont deserve the good things that happen in my life

9.

bet i would have ?

1) despite being considered a police bore, i absolutely adore my job, despite the business, poor pay and naff hours. in my old job in sales i used to lay awake at night worrying myself sick about getting my targets

2) i love baking, cooking, and housework and actually would have made a great 50s housewife

3) i can't believe that it was only about 4 years ago or so i barely went on the internet and would not have considered having interent friends. now i have loads

4) i've taken up archery this year after wanting to do it forever

5) i have long ago given up caring what other people think

6) i wish i could loose a stone in weight but i'm very lazy and like food and drink too much

7) i genuinely don't have any talents whatsoever. i wish i did

8) despite really really wanting my own family, i'm not broody and don't particularly like babies

9) we're having IVF in april and i'm shitting bricks (that may not actually be a massive secret)

10) and i genuinely think there are people who don't deserve to have kids. and if that makes me judgmental, see point 5 ?

I had only read a couple of pages of this before I added my 10, but now I have read through, it is amazing how many things some of us share- it really is, it also helps me to feel a little more 'normal' when so many people have told me I am not, It's actually helping towards me 'accepting' who I am.

Thank you all x

Couldnt have put it better myself!

Oh, and a 11) too

as well as being talent free, sometimes i feel like i'm a bit thick too. which is ridiculous really as i know i'm not really.

i think it's because hitched is so 'sciencey' and i know naff all about it, and that makes me feel like a dumbo. plus i'm not very good at expressing myself cleverly, and don't know a lot of 'big' words (even though i've read hundreds of books)

1. Despite in the overweight BMI range, I actually feel relatively happy with myself, and I think that is stopping me losing much more weight.

2. I am a mature student, having the time of my life on placement. I wish I'd done something like this years ago.

3. I am emetophobic and havent been sick since I was 11, yet fret about it probably on a daily basis.

4. When I was at school I helped in a junior school swimming class. The one day I didn't go, the chlorine machine whent bang. All the kids had to go to hospital and the teacher was unwell for a few days. I still feel guilty about it, and wonder whether fate stopped me going that day.

5. I want to live in SW France.

6. I want to retire to the seaside, somewhere with big waves.

7. I worry too much, about everything.

8. I feel very guilty about our financial situation. Its all my H's hard work and financial savvy that means we are very stable. I fib about being broke sometimes as its easier than making people feel bad when I am not worrying about spending (if that makes sense) I never really feel like the money is mine.

9. I resent my parents a little, on a totally superficial level, because I got a teapot for my 30th. Its what I asked for, but something else would have been nice. I feel bad for thinking like this.

10. I love watching television.

What an amazing thread! Ok, here goes...

1. I have six children who's age range span 23 years (eldest is 26, youngest is 3) I had 3 boys and 3 girls of which I am immensely chuffed even though I had nothing to do with that part!

2. I have two grandchildren, there is 10 months gap between my youngest son and my grandson

3. I am really afraid of the dark and have to sleep with a light on

4. I can play the sax but I am rubbish at it

5. I am a control freak and about my food more than anything, I go for days sometimes not eating anything if I have put weight on, or if I am stressed, or angry or sad - in fact if anything upsets the equilibrium of my life!

6. I am just going through my 3rd divorce, I only ever wanted to be married with 2.4 children so I dont know how I ended up with so many children and exes!

7. I have a good job and it pays really well but I have been doing it for 10 years with barely a holiday (self employed) and I am almost at breaking point, I am seriously thinking of jacking it all in and downsizing my life but feel that I have to carry on being superwoman because that is who everyone thinks I am. Also if I downsized I would have to sell my lovely house and that would make me really sad

8. My eldest son has muscular dystrophy

9. I really want to write a novel, I have lots of ideas and just need to get my backside into gear and do it!

10. i have a new miniature schnauzer puppy and he's gorgeous!

1 I have 27 metal pins in my shoulder (result of a horse riding trek which went very wrong when i was flung against rocks age 18 in NZ)

2 I don't have a knuckle in my left hand little finger, nobody noticed until i was 10 (when the doctor said if noticed earlier it may have been a sign of something really awful.)

3 I want a baby so very much

4 i'm partially happy my current painkillers make my brain so fuzzy. so much to worry about atm that the fuzz is helpful. however having the memory of a concussed goldfish is not great.

5 i had a car crash last April and am still physically so very damaged. I don't know when/ if i'll be fully recovered. always being in pain is so tiring.

6 nearly everytime i shut my eyes i see and feel the crash and jolt as i'm going to sleep because of this. (i was driven into while waiting at a roundabout)

7 I love my husband more than anything and am scared he will die one day.

8 i cry so much each time one of our chickens/ banties die so much that my mum comes over (45 mins away) as it always happens when my H is at work and unable to get home.

9 I'm terribly practical and worry that people really want me to just give sympathy and not possible solutions!

10 i love photography and anything arty. i'd love to just do these things forever.

ooh getting to 10 was easier than i thought!

1. I am terrified of being separated from those I love and so I spend a lot of time knowing without a shadow of a doubt that something awful has happened to them
2. Despite believing in heaven, the whole concept scares me beyond belief
3. I feel like I've been clinging to faith by my fingertips for a long time, but there's still something that won't let me let go
4. I like shocking people, which is why I swear so much
5. Whenever I'm faced with a decision I worry that I'll look back and regret the choice I made
6. I wish I'd realised how slim I was when I was 18 - I spent too much time thinking my arse was enormous and not enough time having sex
7. I get a buzz out of finding out how things work
8. I love quizzes and playing Trivial Pursuit because I know I usually win
9. I used to think that boys actually knew what they were talking about when they were discussing football but I've now learnt that it's very easy to sound impressive (as a girl) by picking up some stock phrases from Five Live ("You can't discount Bulgaria with Stoickhov up front")
10. I can't just drink one glass of wine, I always have to have a second

I've genuinely read this entire thread and found it fascinating. so thank you.

1) I am mouthy and noisy at first sight but underneath I've got really low self esteem. I nearly didn't write my 'ten' because I thought no one would care

2) I am terrified of flying and yet I have to fly for my job.

3) I am dreadful at all sport and feel that the way teachers dealt with my inability at school has blighted my life and my willingness to exercise.

4) Anything sad involving children makes me absolutely sob for days since I had children of my own. I can't read news stories or watch anything on telly about children suffering without feeling physical pain.

5) I wear my heart on my sleeve, which has stopped me getting on as far in my career as I should. I know I'm talented at my job but I am poor at playing the game - and since a personality clash with one individual 6 years ago my career has stagnated. I hate myself for feeling bitter that the people I've trained have gone on to greater success than me.

6) I am so full of inner rage that I worry I'm storing up some awful illness for later life.

7) I have suffered from depression on and off since I was a child. It has been particularly bad since I was 16 and got ME. I got really into hitched because I was going through a massively agoraphobic phase when I was working from home.

8) Last year I discovered emails between two of my best friends slagging me off behind my back. It was incredibly painful to read but although it's changed things forever, I'm sort of glad it happened in a way as it's made me re-evaluate the way I treat people.

9) I worry that my children will grow up to hate me.

10) I am adopted and sometimes I think I'd like to trace my birth mother but I'm too frightened of hurting my family.

oooh good one. me too. our school was a bit malory towers at time, where achievement seemed to equate to sportiness. i only seemed to get on because i was reasonably bright and good at drama, otherwise i think i would have sunk into a vortex.

i've recently discovered (due to archery) that i'm cross dominant, in that i'm right-handed but left eye dominant. so after 37 years i finally have an explanation to why i was rubbish at all ball games, it wasn't just because i was crap. ?

Ooh that's interesting KtC. I expect I am just crap though ? the only thing I could ever do was lacrosse and my school didn't play it that often, sadly.

my school was Malory Towers an' all. So old fashioned. It was a grammar school so even if you were clever you were made to feel fick. (when I got to university I realised I wasn't stupid at all, but i had sod all confidence in my own abilities.) I don't have v good memories of it tbh.

1. i still dream about the day i told mrsnick i had cancer.
2. i ve been arrested 6 times in several different countries
3. i am security conscious to the point of obsession
4. some of my oldest friends annoy me and i wonder why i bother
5. i collect books on philosophy
6. i own guns, and if someone broke into our house at night, with us there i wouldnt hesitate to use one
7. i ve dated a famous model.
8. i m not scared of dying
9. i d quite like to be a vampire
10. i have more female friends than male, but i am more of a "mans man".

But Mrs B, you caught the baby!

[walks away with a "you can't make me run" attitude]

1. I have no friends. Seriously.
2. The only number in my mobile is my husbands as I have no other numbers due to 1. Equally he is the only person to have ever rung it. I have had it for 3yrs
3. I hate myself to the point of loathing and seriously believe that husband and children would be better off if I was dead as then they wouldn't have to pretend to like me.
4. My husband used to be my boss, we both got married to other people then started an affair before getting together properly
5. I have never revised for an exam yet have never failed or got anything less than 80%
6. I tore my knee ligaments after falling off a table rather pished in Barcelona and had to come back with leg in plaster.
7. I was West Berkshire U15 sheep judging champion (Young Farmers) when I was 14
8. I worry that because I am so awful that something will happen to one of my children to punish me for not loving them as much as I should
9. I love reading and will stay up all night to finish a book
10. I don't own any make-up

Gee I'm a freak. Sorry

Nick, some of yours have made me feel quite weepy

(not the famous model one though ?)

I did, didn't I? ? I still bricked it that I'd muff it up though ?

Oh fallen angel I really feel for you, I thought I was lonely with no friends (although I do have some) but thats so sad. I'll be your friend ?

1. I too have an occasionally stinky tummy button.

2. I am incredibly lazy when it comes to tidying/cleaning. My house is an absolute pigsty and this causes the only arguments Mr Beast and I ever have.

3. When I was little I used to drink vineger.

4. I am beginning to lose hope of ever finding a job that pays enough.

5. I am a compulsive list-maker. Probably why I am responding to this thread. ?

6. I cry very easily, usually at things like The Secret Millionaire and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, much to Mr Beast's amusement.

7. Tomorrow I start trying to lose weight for the first time in my life, having been overweight since I was at school. I am quite scared as I have a wierd relationship with food.

8. When I was younger I wanted to be a window dresser.

9. My first serious relationship was at the age of 18. He was a manic depressive, 33 year old, divorced father of one on incapacity benefit who thought of himself as Wiccan. My mother was not amused!

10. Studying for a PGCE was the most depressing, humiliating and frustrating thing I have ever done. Needless to say, I didn't complete it.

1. I’ve spent time in prison

2. I’m very successful at what I do but I wish I wasn’t it.

3. I’m terrified of dying a slow and painful death but I’m probably going to unless there is a miracle cure.

4. I have no fashion sense.

5. I haven’t had my haircut in over five years

6. My BIL once made a pass at me and there was a tiny part of me that was pleased.

7. I eat chocolate behind my H’s back.

8. I often dance around to Britney Spears and Steps in order to cheer myself up.

9. I can lip read and hence I often 'hear' things I shouldn’t

10. I have a strange OCD thing which means I can’t leave the house without a long list of things in my pocket/bag.

if you really want a good weep i can do ten more if you want ?

1) I really want people to like me and crave acceptance and praise

2) I haven't been single since I was 16 (26 now), and its something I regret sometimes

3) I think I am right, all of the time

4) I am really proud of myself for things I have achieved in the last year (getting over my fear of failure and learning to drive, going for dream job and actually getting it, losing weight)

5) When I was a kid I knew every single word to the Joseph & His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat musical

6) I spend an awful lot of time worrying about loved ones, thinking about death and being very aware that this is IT, no afterlife, no nothing (in my opinion)

7) As a result of No. 1, I change myself to adapt to who I'm with at the time so they'll like me - sometimes I don't really know who I am at all

8) I fear losing my looks and getting old

9) I really despise having to make idle chit-chat and small talk with people I don't know, but my job means I have to do it every single day - maybe thats a good thing?

10) Despite all of the negative guff above, I seem to be able to make people laugh, and am generally outwardly positve about life

? MrsB. All of your ten, bar no.2 also apply to me. Here are mine:

1) Until last year I owned over 7000 books, most of which were in storage. I couldn't bear to part with any of them. Since having children we ran out of space and donated the majority to the RNIB

2) I am starting training to become a SANDS befriender at the end of March

3) I have given birth 3 times but only have 2 children

4) I have had the same mobile no. since I got my first phone aged 16

5) I am adopted and started proceedings to trace my biological mother when I was 19 but stopped when I found out some really upsetting details about my conception

6) At the age of 3 I got lost on a packed beach in the height of summer and was rescued by a nun!

7) I had trials for the national Netball team for England and narrowly missed out on selection, being ranked 14th out of 30. They selected the top 12.

8) I was admitted for over 3 months to a psychiatric hospital

9) I took over 40 driving lessons at 17 but never sat a test and still can't drive 10 years later

10) I am obsessed with serial drama and my idea of a great time is watching an entire boxset in one sitting