10 things I've done that you probably haven't

[Cligereen]

Right here goes...

1) Played the part of a Priest in the film 'Eden'.
2) Drive an immaculately recycled Citroen 2CV as my only car.
3) Am a member of Mensa.
4) Was delivered at birth by Kate Bush's dad.
5) Rode 'Air' at Alton Towers for the first time at 46.
6) Have one grandparent from each of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
7) Still use the same transistor radio that I got for my 11th birthday.
8) Know all the words to Bohemian Rhapsody.
9) Bought a jug at a boot sale for €20 and sold it for €350.
10) Get called eccentric because I'm into everything on this site!

Clig.

[the.fee.fairy]

Don't think i've got 10...

1. Attended the launch party for Talisman TV - the TV company that was owned by Jason Karl from Most Haunted's first series.
2. Worked as a Photographic journalist for York Alive Magazine
3. Went to the Launch Party for York TV
4. Met Boyzone in Houston at the height of their fame
5. Cuddled Finlay today
6. Went to the pub with my friend Lennie
7. Knitted a washcloth with a seahorse on it in red wool on 4mm bamboo needles
8. Posted on Ish at 2 in the morning
9. Woke up in my bed
10. In the near future...will be going to sleep in my bed.

If any of you have done 5-10 today, i'll be really shocked! Especially 9 and 10!!!!!

[smbm]

1) Toured Germany playing guitar in a band.
2) Been hit in the head by a surf board fin (attached to a surf board) and not suffered any ill effects at all except a broken fin.
3) Worked in 3 different music retail chains.
4) Represented myself at an employment tribunal and won.
5) Met Mark Little at a Queens of the Stoneage gig.
6) Been a live sound engineer.
7) Worked in a milkshake shop.
8) Had to have a 3 day stay in hospital because of a nosebleed
9) Surfed amongst seals.
10) Spent more time than is probably healthy pondering on why you can't buy tea cozies anywhere anymore. The only one I've found is in John Lewis and is £12 which seems a little steep to me! Surely people still need them...

[Lady Willow]

You people rock!!!
I have so many "how's", "why's" and "no, ways!" ... you are all totally cool people!

Are you two related? Cos Lady Willow posted that a few minutes ago, and now it's suddenly been posted by turf cutter man!

Not related, but we are married and share a PC

[Jobi1canobi]

1. Been on stage with, and shook Derren Browns hand.
2. Laid on the floor in semi-darkness at the Excel in London and listened to Anthony Robbins talking about empowerment
3. Been sent to Honolulu, Maui and San Francisco free of charge to report on 17 hotels and check out some of the tours including a helicopter flight over Maui.
4. Waited in line whilst Seal and Heidi Klum pushed in to get into a nightclub in London
5. Abseiled 100 foot down a rock face for charity
6. Finished an accelerated Honours Degree course over 4 years whilst holding down a full time job.
7. Made a full spaghetti bolognese on a camping stove in the middle of a field
8. Held and fed a Harrier Hawk
9. Got to the top of Blencathra (2,847 ft) in the Lakes on my first ever hill-walking expedition
10. Lost 3 stone in weight over 4 months with the help of 'the juicemaster'.

[Millymollymandy]

I have done some of what you guys have done, or similar!

1. I worked for Whitesnake and David Coverdale came into my house and had a cuppa with my mum.

2. I swallowed a gold crown and spent the next 4 days pooing into a plastic bag which I had to squidge to try to find it. I didn't and had to pay a fortune to have a new one!

3. I have no mortgage and am debt free too.

4. Got stung by a jellyfish in Malaysia whilst swimming in the safe jellyfish free area behind netting - I thought I was going to die and went to report to the staff who just laughed, put something on it and said it'll only sting for an hour!

5. I climbed Ayers Rock with the guy who ran the Youth Hostel on the Isle of Skye at the time.

6. I can count to 10 in Welsh.

7. I can say "where's the loo" in both a polite and a very impolite way in Fijian.

8. I one spent the best part of 4 (or maybe 5) days on a Greyhound bus trying to get from Darwin to Perth via the coastal route in the wet season, only to have to turn around and go back to Darwin, then get to Perth via Alice Springs, Adelaide and the Nullabor Plain. I had one night's sleep in a hostel during all that time.

9. I got married in Las Vegas

10. I can swear in Greek.

[the.fee.fairy]

10) Spent more time than is probably healthy pondering on why you can't buy tea cozies anywhere anymore. The only one I've found is in John Lewis and is £12 which seems a little steep to me! Surely people still need them...

Knit one! I think i've got some patterns if you want one. Give me a shout!

[Brij]

Don't think i've got 10...

8. Posted on Ish at 2 in the morning

Nope, I've done that too

[Annpan]

1. Walked the West Highland Way
2. Renovated a flat, doing all the work ourselves, except the gas.
3. Run my own business at 18 (worked well for a few years - till I took on too much)
4 Had an anaphalactic reaction to penicilin, when I had a 10 day old baby and no help (except OH)
5. Nearly got declared bankrupt (back when it was more serious than it is now)
6. Went to a mardi gras yesterday
7. Changed my life completely to live in the country and grow my own.
8. Worked as a sound engineer
9. Made my own wedding dress
10. Run a freecycle group.

[red]

I've done some of the same things - including being stung by a jellyfish and having sucker marks on my arm for a week!

however:

1 witnessed a total eclipse of the sun at my own home (last house) and saw the chickens go to bed as it had gone dark.. only to have to come back out again a few minutes later.

2 Saw the sun set in Snowdonia, twice in the same evening. Watched it go down behind the mountains.. then legged it backwards and watched it again.

3 eaten snails, frogslegs, sharks fin soup (I dont approve but was at a Cantonese wedding), raw sea urchin, tripe and crocodile. I would have the sea urchin again and leave the rest!
4 (with my family) drove coast to coast across USA
5 sailed to the Isles of Scilly in a yacht during a gale (never again )
6 played on stage, miked up, at the first folk festival I ever attended (I was conned by the rest of my team..)
7 I have a favourite mug that my cousin bought me when we were kids, with my name on it. I have been using it for about 30 years....
8 woke up once to find a bat flying round the room and after establishing it would not find the window by itself, had to catch it and throw it out.
9 I know how to ask 'do you need the loo?' and sing 'twinkle twinkle little star, in makaton
10 converted a transit van into a camper van, with beds for 3, kitchen area, loo, cooker, cupboards and windows.

[Clara]

oooo this is a good one.....don´t reckon I´ll get to 10 though

In no particular order...

1. Went into labour at the same moment as my dog, continued to labour with 7 squeaky puppies under the bed.

2. Met and been filmed by Lee Scratch Perry

3. Lived in an abandoned house in the Pyrenees with 25 goats in the basement.

4. Climbed a mountain (2500m) the week before my daughter was born

5. Have a photo of me (age 5) with Russ Abbott

6. Been divebombed by herons in the sea off Tobago

7. Never driven a car.

8. Cut up a dead horse

those last two were scraping the barrel...two more?!.....

9. no.....

10. can´t do it.....that means I either have a very boring life or a bad memory!

[Jobi1canobi]

2. Met and been filmed by Lee Scratch Perry

Just had to look up who that is - please excuse my ignorance!

[Lady Willow]

9. Made my own wedding dress

wanna see a photo, wanna see a photo, wanna see a photo!

[Annpan]

As requested



I am not a very 'dressy' person but this was very me

[Clara]

9. Defrosted a bottle of olive oil under a dog (Cairngorms, January, wild camping, nuff said!)