Hello and welcome
I�m Briony � but I expect you�ve managed to deduce that for yourself by now!
The reason for this website? Well � as at 1st October 2003, I�ve already had 2 weeks annual leave, and 1 and a half weeks� sickleave and I�m bored � Graham, my lovely flatmate, has given me this project of building this site from scratch, so � here I go!
About me?
I�m 51 now and I hate getting old! But I seem to have done more in the past five years than in the previous 30, so that�s not so bad is it? I�m at the point in my life where I can do things without really having to give too much concern as to what other people think. You know the old adage � you can't please all of the people all of the time � well � I decided it was time to please myself for a change.
Seems to work too.
However, I was born at a very early age (as most of us were!!) in an evergrowing village close to Cardiff, called Dinas Powis, they call it Dinas Powys now ... because more emphasis is being placed on the Welsh Language in these parts nowadays. The family lived on the Common, in a house my father had built just around the time I was born, and I had the wonderful kind of country existence that parents are wise enough these days (with all the weirdos out there), not to allow. It is a dreadful shame ... Mum hardly ever knew where I was ... but I always turned up for meals! We lived next-door to a farm, and I think I spent must of my time "helping" to herd the cows, feed the orphaned lambs, collect the eggs and just generally enjoy the fresh air and freedom. I suppose I ought to mention that I do have a younger brother, but hey ... no-one can choose their family!!! (hey ho!)
I went to school where I never really did come to grips with education and the importance thereof, and failed dismally when it came to the 11 plus, something thankfully they've done away with now ... where I was confronted for the first time in my life with an IQ test ... you know ... all those boxes with odd things and shapes and being asked to pick the odd one out! For a child that had had quite a sheltered existence until this point, it came as a complete shock and I cried for the entire exam (I suspect they put me in the moron category when they came to score it!) But please understand me ... I may not be academically brilliant, but I am pretty well known for being a "mine of useless information".
I spent a lot of my childhood on horseback as will be evidenced by some of the snaps (black and white mainly - sorry), and was extremely privileged in having my own horses (sounds posh ... but I had one after the other ... not two at the same time .... rats!).
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