| Gory details? I got married at the age of 20 and was divorced by the time I was 23 � far too young � and sometimes I think I�m not old enough now! (Now I find it really strange that I cant find one single photograph of Paul, my ex-husband!) That�s not to say I�ve haven�t had any long-term relationships since � I have � but as fate would have it none have worked out. Would I marry again? Who knows � I�m fairly happy as I am at the moment, but I�m sure I could make the room if that very special person came along � but he�d have to be exceptional now! No second bests for me any more � SO BE WARNED! I�m a pretty well adjusted individual � well I think so anyway (but it could be the Prozac!) � and have a great sense of humour (with a dead-pan expression). I love to laugh, to share, hope that I listen well, and if asked � give advice that generally seems sensible. I�m a bit of a trivia freak, spend a lot of time involving myself in quizzes via computer � I�ve made friends all over the world doing this, and met some really fun-loving people. I�ve discovered I really enjoy up-to-date (Top 40) Country Music � if you told me I�d like that 10 years ago I�d have laughed my socks off � but we�re all capable of change � I�ve discovered that myself. I have my own flat, which I now share with Graham. Best male friend, confidante � adopted little brother. He�s 34 and unattached, a wonderful singer, and a great cook � (I think he�s fattening me up for something, but I�m not sure what!) Graham is also somewhat of a "Star Trek" fan and a movie buff. When he moved into the flat I was astounded by the number of videos he had, overflowing from two very tall bookcases ... double filled! I hate to think how many he has, quite apart from the Star Trek episodes which seem to inhabit one of these bookcases alone. Graham's building his own website dedicated to Star Trek which contains everything you wanted to know about Star Trek and plenty of information you would have had no idea about. I have two very good female friends, Jane ... who I went to school with from the age of 12, and Wendy who I have worked with on and off for about 15 years in two different firms. I've been a legal Secretary the majority of my working life, and have only slightly deviated from that path now. In fact, I worked for Jane's father, a local Solicitor, for three years ... a difficult man to please workwise, but I still adored working for him. In fact, as I understand it, in the year after I left him he employed something like 9 different secretaries, none of whom lived up to me!!!!! (Sounds like I'm bragging, but that's what he told Jane, so who am I to argue?) Over the years, I've worked for many firms of solicitors (lawyers) usually changing specialty each time, 13 years conveyancing, various dabblings in litigation, probate and crime, and 12 years matrimonial. I therefore gained a very good grounding in most things legal. Wait for it .... I now work for the Police! I'm a typist ... newly re-christened an "Administrative Assistant" ... and work in the typing department of the Criminal Justice Unit. The work is mostly very tedious, though once in a while life spices itself up with something juicy, but usually fairly disgusting! You wouldn't believe what people do to one another ..... on the other hand maybe you do! It's a sad and sick old world we live in, but I hope I haven't become too hardened to it. Anyhow, back to Wendy. We've worked together often and it's almost as if Wendy understands the deepest recesses of my thoughts. We were often able to complete one another's sentences, and frequently burst into verses from "Sloop John B" when work had come to the point of sheer boredom. Though ... don't mention Christmas ... it'll start her off on "Little Donkey"! Wendy and her husband, John's eldest son, Andrew, got married in mid-August 2003, and I managed to slip out of work and got to the Church just at the couple were exchanging their vows. It was gorgeous, and the evening party was a wonderful success. There's a picture of Wendy and me dressed in our evening finery ready for the off! And by the way, I'll never be able to forget Andrew's birthday ... he shares it with me. Wendy is also the proud owner of Bailey who's picture can be found by clicking on his link. Jane, as I've mentioned is a very special friend, I've known her since I was 12. I used to love to go to stay with Jane and her parents some weekends, and I could never understand how a family could be so close and loving ... not to say that mine wasn't loving ... Mum was able to show us all the love we needed, my father unfortunately being brought up in a very Victorian atmosphere had managed to learn how to hide all his feelings and emotions. It was very sad ... I can't remember that he ever said he loved me ... even up to the very end when I was 49 and that was a very hard thing to bear. Back to Jane. Jane is a very bubbly, people oriented person that I find it very hard to keep up with. I have to be bouncing with energy just to speak to her on the phone. She has such a lot to say and so little time to say it it seems to me. I love her to bits. I'm also her eldest son's (Christopher) godmother. She has two others Alison who is now in College and Robert I think is doing his GCSE's. Up until about 18 months ago when my arthritis started to get a lot worse than it had been, I had been taking Linedancing classes taught by a previous World Champion - Christopher Godden, an excellent teacher also. I thInk I can still tush-push with the best of them, but this is where my newly acquired love of up-to-date country music has come from. It caused me to seek out Country Music internet radio stations, and I've found that Don Steele's Roughstock Country Countdown Top 40, keeps me au fait with what's going on. Now, as I've mentioned somewhere else, I'm a bit of a trivia addict, my addiction fuelling itself once I'd downloaded the programme from Paltalk.com. I discovered in the "Meet New Friends" category several Trivia Rooms where I've made some great worldwide acquaintances. Here I can while away the hours answering questions, asking questions, scoring the quizzes, and keeping my fingers crossed that the winning team doesn't pick me to sing as a punishment for the side I'm playing on for losing!! Some people are gluttons for punishment .... me? sing? I'm tone deaf .... honest I am! Trivia is how I got to meet Graham, another mine of useless information. I also love to............................. Travel |
