1. I have never been in an ambulance :)
2. I can speak fluent German
3. I am so square I have never taken illegal drugs
4. The worst job I had as a student was working in a bubble factory
5. I was Head Girl at school
6. I have worked as a nude model for art classes
7. I have a Masters Degree which is worth very little to me....I wouldn't do it again if I had my time over

Working as a nude model definitely makes up for not having taken illegal drugs :D

Just being nosey again!, if you're a mumof4, how come you're up at 5:40 am? Sorry! I am soooooooo nosey!!

1. I once met a prince in an Airport. To say it was a waste of his time is an understatement. I have nothing to show for this, not even a picture (the camera batteries were dead).

2. I have always been of the opinion that, whatever your political inclinations, you have to agree; Michael Howard really resembles a serial killer.

3. Since starting university, I have partaken in 3 different types of martial arts and had a gym membership twice. And I'm still a fat bastard.

4. I'm constantly unable to sleep consistantly over the course of a week. Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome/Disorder is quite annoying.

5. I do nothing with the extra time that I get from this except write comments on blogs and listen to XM Radio. I really need a hobby.

6. It is my ambition to one day have something interesting enough to write about that I can start my own blog that won't crash, burn, get assessed by an insurance worker and then, finally, be buried in a silent service, with three loners in attendance and a priest who mispronounces the name.

7. Comedy is one of my favourite things in the world, and yet I continue to be an unfunny douche.

LOL I share 2, and more interestingly, 4 & 5, with you!

Maybe they're not so random after all.... :o)

I would post my own but it's 7am, time I went to sleep.

That's a disorder? Yeep.

1 the older i get, the more i like my 'down' time.
2 i love my wife passionately, little does she know...
3 i'm in madison, wisconsin usa, and my fave blog is some uk emt who, for some reason, has had me addicted to his stories for a few years now.
4 i am very pro marijuana/anti drug war.
5 music is a passion of mine, unfortunately i can't play and i'm tone deaf.
6 i believe that children are the future... unless we stop them now!!!!
7
haikus are easy
but some times they don't make sense
refrigerator

lol your turn, tom

1. I only have nine finger nails
2. I once, by accident, shut a door in the face of Ted Rogers, host of the popular British 1970s game show '3-2-1'
3. I've flown 14 times
4. My favourite film is 'Walk The Line'
5. The last song I listened to on iTunes was 'The Story of My Life' by Michael Holliday
6. The last time I saw the sea was on New Year's Day, in Morecambe
7. Today I plan on buying some new glasses, new underwear, two bus tickets, a cinema ticket and some milk.

7 things about me.

I am “over the hill” and heading towards my three score years and ten.

I am usually to be found with my head buried in a book, and read a great variety, although mostly detective novels

I bought and read Blood Sweat and Tea (does this gain me brownie points)

I discovered the blogosphere via Tom Reynolds, and now nothing can keep me back

I am a mother to 2 sons and a beautiful daughter

I am a grandmother to 3 grandsons and a granddaughter.

I have big feet!

Seven random facts about me.

1. As a baby I was left in my pram outside the greengrocer's shop because my sister, who had pushed me there, was so eager to get home with the first bananas on sale since the 1939 war broke out. As she sat with our parents engorging the fruit, mum asked "Where's the baby?"

2. As a four year old I nearly killed my grandmother. She was warming her knees at the open fire when I threw a firework into the grate. It exploded. Grandma's death months later was not, I am assured, connected in any way to this incident.

3. As a favour to my first wife, after we split up I took our dead budgerigar to a taxidermist. I collected the stuffed article two weeks later. I was accompanied on both occasions by the person who was later to become my second wife.

4. In the course of a single week, I found my mother dead from a drug overdose at home, attended her burial, and got married.

5. My father worked as the caretaker of a further education college whilst in denial about his near blindness. He managed to perform all the tasks assigned to him, and more, but caused some consternation when he mistook Margaret Thatcher, on an official visit, for one of his cleaning ladies.

6. One of the things I learned from psychotherapy is the importance for me of doing less than my best and being happy with it.

7. I have shared a urinal with a former British Prime Minister - not Margaret Thatcher.

By the time I was 2 months old, my mum had left me outside Woolworths in Keswick. She didn't even have the excuse of being excited at bananas. The end of war had been nearly 30 years earlier. She also says she didn't realise until she had unpacked her shopping & thought there was something missing. Needless to say I bring this up at every oppurtunity & use it as an explanation for any mental scars I may have.

When I was a new mum 37 years ago, I left my daughter in her pram outside the supermarket, as you could in those days, but I forgot I had a baby and was halfway home before I remembered and had to do back for her! I have never told anyone that before. Before I was married I worked in a Holiday Camp in Paignton, Devon, and danced with Kenny Ball's brother. The whole Ball family (including Kenny) spent 3 weeks there, and on the last night he played his trumpet.

Goodfornowt - that is totally random! I say the prize goes to you (unless I read something better further down in the thread)

7 random things about me:
1. I've never, ever smoked a cigarette. (My parents gave up smoking when I was about 7 and I vividly remember how hard they found it).
2. I type faster than I write - but with poor accuracy.
3. In our house we have over 3000 books at last count.
4. Sometimes I hurt myself to make myself feel better.
5. The most important people in my life are my two daughters.
6. I read Tess of the d'Urbevilles in 3 1/2 hours (it's a big book!)
7. Riding camels makes me feel sick.

1. I haven't been able to fart since the 19th August 2005.
2. I have been in an ambulance once.
3. I spent 22 hours on a train in India in September.
4. I worked at an A&E reception for two and a half years. Trying to eat a chicken ball special while some drunken ejit waggles his laccerated eyebrow at you, dripping blood all over the place saying "Is me eye hanging" is fun!!
5. I once had the private phone number for the Blairs, but I lost it!
6. Some people collect stamps... I collect Consultants! I am under active review by 4 different specialities at the hospital, having been discharged by another 2. I am hoping for a prize when I complete the set!!.
7. I'm off out now to buy a present as my friend had a wee baby last night.

1) I became veggie because eating animals was wrong (hey, I was 9) I'm still veggie but it's just habit, now the thought of eating flesh makes me feel sick.

2) In the course of my life I have learnt to play, to some extent, the bass guitar, the oboe, the piano, the tenor recorder, various percussion instruments and the guitar, I have stuck with none of these and rely on my naturally good singing voice to get me through.

3) I haven't seen my natural hair colour in 14 years, in those 14 years it has been every colour under the sun including, but not exclusive to, bright pink, green, black purple, blue, blond and ginger.

4) My first job was at 16 as a waitress, I lasted less than a month, it then took me 6 years to get another job.

5) I have one webbed toe, well two technically? It's actually a scar, for some some reason I have a hell of a lot more scars than other women my age, I must have been an extra clumsy teenager.

6) I am dysgraphic and shifted sinistral, this means writing is super fun for me.

7) I have no feeling in the base of my right little finger and little feeling down the outside of my right hand, due to an accident with the washing up in first year.

1. I have diabetes (Type 1 ish)
2. It is over 20 years since my first gig (www.marillion.com - a better way of life)
3. I have two piercings
4. I am a geek and proud of it
5. My HbA1c is obscenely good (5.2)
6. I don't eat meat
7. I would go and live in Paris if you paid me a decent wage

1. My dad was engaged to Sue Lawley when they were at University together. For years my grandma used to keep a Sue Lawley scrapbook and brought it out whenever my mum annoyed her.
2. I got interested in blogs and blogging in May 2007 and now I rarely visit anything else on the internet. Random Acts of Reality was one of the first I found and is still one of my favourites.
3. My auntie is married to an ex-catholic priest. He loved her more than that church, but not God - he's now a Church of England archdeacon and they have an extremely happy marriage - you can never have too much love, you should never have to chose.
4. Both my parents were alcoholics. I'm terrified that one day I will be too.
5. Local government and politics runs strong through my father's side of the family. My grandfather was a Labour MP and went on the Jarrow march, my grandmother was a Mayor as was her father, my great grandfather.
6. Over 5 years ago I was treated very badly by an employer who I had worked hard for. I have never got over it and it has had a terrible effect on my confidence and self esteem. I still dream of retribution. I really need to get over it, or write a list book of revenge!
7. I love to eat toast with Marmite and marmalade spread on top. Try it, it sounds dreadful, but it's a winning combination - it'll change your life!

My 7 Randomish Things:
1. I am a paramedic, yet I have only ever been a patient in an ambulance once (well twice if you count an air ambulance :D )
2. I found this blog through 'womble porn'! Don't ask why lol!!
3. When I was younger that famous magician bloke asked my sister to get in a box at homebase and he would make her dissappear, so we ran to my mum and shouted about how we were being kidnapped lol!
4. My 'claim to fame' is my great great great great great great great etc granddad founded Warings Bakery (and I wished our family still owned it :( )
5. I am ambidextrous! teehee, bet no-one else is here!!
6. I have been to 23 states in America (well technically I havn't been, but I have driven through some of them, does that count?) and plan to visit them all, but most probably won't because my parents won't may for my holidays any more :(
7. My favourite food in the world is marmite and I hate; cheese, garlic and onions XP

Your turn!!

1. When I peg out the washing, each item must have pegs that are matching colours and designs.
2. I love cars, and the longest I have ever kept a car is 18 months, the shortest period 3 months.
3. My dad is a county councillor, and whilst I am proud of him, I disagree with his politics.
4. My fave sandwich filling is cheddar cheese and strawberry jam.
5. I love being in my 30's because I finally have the confidence to be me.
6. Less than a year into my second marriage I O/D'd twice and had a complete breakdown. We will celebrate 14 years of marriage this year.
7. I still occasionally dream about my first husband, despite having not seen him for 17 years.

I do the peg thing too, my flatmate thinks I'm mad.

And me. My Dad too, though I can just about cope if the pegs match but clash with the item, he can't. Plus he counts everything. (I only count stairs).

And another one, although I'm happier about hanging stuff up indoors where it doesn't need pegs at all.

1. I'm a platelet donor.

2. I nannied for film director Ken Russell's kids on the set of Lady Chatterly.

3. I can easily write in mirror writing. And I hold a level 1 certificate in British Sign Langauge.

4. I have sponsored a boy in Tanzania for almost ten years.

5. I was allergic to cats but ended up with five anyway. The allergy finally wore itself out.

6. I grew up in a town with the unfortunate name of 'Cockermouth' (in Cumbria).

7. I held a Virginia, USA, driving license for a while as I worked there for a year.

I lived in Penrith for years and it wasn't until I left Cumbria and was telling people about it I realized Cockermouth was as unfortunate a name as it it.

OK, 7 things about me... here goes:
1) The most exciting thing I have ever done is to go wing-walking (have promised myself I will go again on my 80th b'day - I am 35 now)
2) I just love marzipan! the taste, the smell...mmmm!
3) I like housework
4) I have my dream job - working as a specialist brain injury Physiotherapsit
5) I I love time flopping on my sofa with a glass of wine and some trashy TV
6) I find ambulance men very sexy!!
7) My dream holiday would be to go white water rafting down the grand canyon

Well Tom....lets hear yours....

3) I like housework
6) I find ambulance men very sexy!!

Please tell me you are
a) Female
b) Single
c) also adore cooking and cleaning for sexy ambulancemen.

*Grin*

thanks for the grin...made me smile :-)

In response:
a) female
b) not single
c) love cooking for my male friends...though none of them are paramedics... there is definately a vacancy...

So, are you sexy then?

1. My career path began with a journalism scholarship, changing to sociology/criminal justice, emergency medicine, auditor and now a senior administrator in a large health system.
2. I look rather schizo from an iPod perspective where you'll find everything from Alice in Chains, Metallica, Elton John, Pavarotti, Santana, BB King, Mozart, The Gossip, Broadway show tunes, Cajun Zydeco and everything inbetween.
3. When visiting family in Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina hit. Despite living through many very bad hurricanes in my life, this one terrified me.
4. London is my favorite city.
5. While on vacation at a 5 star resort in St. Martin this past June, I managed to gracefully stumble up the stairs and sustain a spiral, displaced fracture of my middle metacarpal requiring surgery. (My first bone break ever - and hopefully the last)
6. My first limousine ride ever was after the above mentioned graceful fall when the resort insisted I take it to the hospital.
7. Photography is my passion. I'm not sure I'm very good but I love it.
8. I've bought a new digital camera every year for the past 5 years. "Is 12 megapixels overkill?" (See above)
9. I have had two full-time jobs for the past 11 years; one at the health system and one on the internet managing online communities from home.
10. I have approximately 250 cookbooks from around the world yet I have very little time to cook. I'm beginning to give them away.

1. I'm training to be a adult nurse
2. Theres a girl I really have the hots for and still haven't got round to telling her
3. I've never been a patient in an ambulance
4. I enjoy volunteering
5. One of my hobbies are filmaking and photography
6. I found this blog from reading the excellent book blood, sweat and tea
7. Never smoked
8. I was always either a prefect or head boy whilst at 6th form!

1. Single, never been married, never likely to get married. just not my thing I guess
2. Fell down a tree onto a barbed wire fence, age 6 have the scars to prove it.
3. Lived in Malaya from age 7 to 11 and can remember the start of their then national anthem.
4. Lived in Germany from 11-15 years where i broke my wrist trying to jump an iron bar, on wet grass with plimsolls on... not a good idea.
5. At age 22 I wanted to have a litter of puppies rather than a baby (haven't changed my mind)
6. Despite having left formal education at 16, I enjoy learning new skills and got my degree at age 42 with the ou. So perhaps the meaning of life isn't too far wrong :-)
7. Learnt to ride a motorbike and pass advanced test in 3 months... still my proudest moment.

Sage

1. I have never been in an ambulance:)
2. My dream career is to be a Paramedic. means more to me than anything!!!!!
3. I have had a crush on someone at least 12 years older than me.
4.My dad is in the army.
5.I have moved house 12 times.
6. I was born in Germany but i am Scottish.
7.I have ginger hair but i am considering dying it. I con't take anymore insults at high school.(Really doesn't help towards the situation number 5 provides)

I'm a redhead too. Please don't dye your hair: ginger roots are not a good look.

Next time some tiresome feckwad says something about your hair that you've heard a million times before, take a look at theirs. Most white people's hair is the colour of either baby-crap or dog-crap. They will likely be literally, as well as figuratively, a shit-head.

Right, now to think of seven random things........eeerrrrrrr......

1. Having a mathematics qualification, I know that none of the things we're writing about ourselves here are truly random.
2. I'm currently listening to Stereolab.
2a. I have a copy of Stereolab's first single. See?
3. I'm over six feet tall.
4. I volunteer in a charity shop.
5. I would like to catch red-handed one of our many shoplifters. The punishment will be to check the gussets of a mountain of donated underwear. Or a good shoeing. Haven't decided.
6. I do not buy underwear from charity shops.
7. A relative of mine can remember what he had for dinner on any given date.

A red headed celt - this is cause for teasing? It can't be that uncommon in Scotland!?

I'm envious I'd love to be a natural redhead, although my hair been every colour under the sun, red is my favorite, and I believe it's most common colour of hair dye sold, see so everyone wants red hair ;)

Red headed Celts are VERY sexy...........I am married to one ! :-)

I agree with Random Pinkness. My sister is a redhead and we teased her really badly when we were kids. I regret that now because she always dyes her hair and in reality I love her hair colour and wish I was a redhead too.

Kids are stupid. They're probably all jealous.

A friend of mine's son had very red hair. People used to comment on it when she pushed him in his pram, saying how lovely it was, She always replied that she didn't like it.
One day ,when her son was 2, he said "Mummy, why don't you like my hair?"

My eighteen year old daughter was recently photographed with Rupert Grint - their hair colour is identical...apparently he thought she was stunning!

DO NOT DYE YOUR HAIR! :D

My sister did it, tried to dye it brown... but it turned out to be jet black, my mother didn't recognise her, we still slag her about it!

Hon, your hair is gorgeous. I'm Irish and have red hair, and I love it. Everyone wants red hair. If they don't, they lie ;) We're thought of as fiery, therefore, you get away with murder (and sometimes, you'd be really tempted to test it out... Sorry Judge, but the bastard just unleashed the temper, and what can I say?! Except for the fact that I did it in a way that meant the poor overworked ambulance workers didn't have to come out? :D ), fantastic in bed (according to friends, red heads are exceedingly passionate...), and there are countries where redheads are the most sought after!
I'll put it this way, would you rather be boring like everyone else? I don't think so :D Red hair is fantastic :D

Oh, the other thing is, High School will end, you'll have your hair forever, and one of the other things is... redheads don't go grey, they go a different colour that I can't remember, but it's fantastic apparently :D So when all those people slagging you have gone grey, and/or bald, you'll still feel fantastic :D

Embrace the redheadedness!!
(Plus, it's a excuse for those times you have a huge bout of temper... cos God knows I do from time to time! :D )

hmmmm... seven things are down at the bottom of the page ;) Wanted to keep them seperate, cos I figured I'd already had a load of space! :D

1. I just finished reading Blood Sweat and Tea and it was fab, I have always fancied being a paramedic but as I have never even had one driving lesson yet and therefore can't drive I may need to wait a while.
2. I divide my time between my family's homes in Scotland and Los Angeles but spend the majority of my time in Scotland tolerating the crap weather as I have never gotten over my fear of flying.
3. I have three cats called Cake, Mittens and Doodle, I quite fancy having a parrot (so I could teach it lots of naughty words) but I don't know if my cats would be very happy with this idea.
4. When I was 14 I was on Live & Kicking on the TV, I only ever watched myself on it once as I thought I looked crap and my accent sounded stupid.
5. I like all food apart from prawns, I've never actually tasted one but they look scary.
6. I get bored easily and even though I'm only 20 have had about 10 or more jobs since I was 16.
7. This is my first ever comment.

1. I don't drink, smoke or take drugs - I never have and never will.
2. I had 2 and a half years after my A levels where I had a job and saw the world before I finally decided I could cope with university.
3. I can't drive, though I have been meaning to learn for a while now.
4. I'm engaged to a man I never thought possible I would meet - sounds sickening but I thought I would never meet the 'prince' I envisaged when I was about 8....turns out he exists!
5. I'm a childrens nurse, about to start a new job on the 7th, working with adults as well as children...even though my adult experience consists of 4 weeks on a private adult oncology ward in my first year of training.
6. I have size 11 feet and am 6ft tall.....so tall for a girl!
7. I have famouse parents.

Who are your parents? Sorry, but I am incredibly nosey!!

1. I have been in an ambulance once, but not as a patient. The paramedics were lovely!
2. I have recently moved to London from the countryside but am struggling to meet new people.
3. I always fall for highly inappropriate men and then get annoyed when they don’t call.
4. This is the first blog I ever read – it was introduced to me by a colleague around last Christmas I think.
5. I have an unhealthy addiction to shoes and can’t resist buying pairs that I really don’t need.
6. I love cheese.
7. This is the first time I have ever commented on a blog.

Re 2, I hope it's okay to post this: meetup.com or citysocialising.com are really good for meeting new people in London, I've used both on occasion (I've got no connection to either, so hope this doesn't set off any spam alarms!) so thought you might like them, as your presence here shows you have good taste!

1. By my first birthday, I had lived in Germany, England and Northern Ireland.
2. I get jealous of Police Officers, because I've always wanted to be one and I can't wait until I am.
3. I used to be an overachiever but then I discovered 'Blood, Sweat and Tea'.
4. I wish I had something interesting to blog about. I'll get a hobby and come back and tell you all about it!
5. I can't sleep unless the sheets on my bed are totally flat and tucked in tightly.
6. I have never been in an amulance (well, it seems trendy around here!)
7. I just can't enough of Wiiing!!

1) I was born in Sweden, moved to New York when I was 10 and when I turned 15 I decided to go to school in Austria for a year. I have lived in London (SE1) for 60 months.

2) I speak 5 languages, 3 of which fluently and sometimes I cant remember what I said in which language and to whom (scary that is)

3) I work in the highest office building in London

4) I find London coppers uniforms absolutely attractive

5) I'm 27 and I've been married twice (one child 2 years old)

6) I love London theatres more than anything else in this city

7) I read this blog every single day

Not spectacular but thats just me ... :-)

Lynn x

Heeeeeeeeeyyyyy, aren't you the troll, who was moaning about Tom being racist the other day?? :s I have a sneaking suspision you are, unless there is more than one 'guest blogger'!! LOL

'Guest blogger' is the name you get if you log in with Username:guest Password:guest

It's a kind of anonymous login thing.

Oh! See I'm crap with computers, so I didn't know that! Sorry!!

My 7 things:

1. I spent 4 months off-the-beaten-track in Asia and never once used a squat toilet
2. I have flown a plane....
3. ....and jumped out of one
4. I am really scared of the sea, but have managed to surf, snorkel, sail and scuba - and cried each time.
5. My favourite celebrity is Brian May
6. I accidentally swam in the sea at 3am fully clothed.
7. I was desperate for a 20p coin to make a phone call and asked George Best if he could help me out - completely oblivious to his identity.

That was fun!

1. I was born at at 27 weeks
2. I never read instruction manuals
3. I am writing a book which is basically a tweak of the last 20 years of a friend's life. He doesn't know this
4. I am lousy at keeping in touch with people
5. I dabble in hobbies but seldom get into anything seriously for any length of time
6. I'm hopeless with money
7. I hope to emigrate to France in the next few years

1. I was born at 24 weeks, now I am average height and probably a little too heavy for my age.
2. Have been in an ambulance once - when i was 2 months old
3. I am now terrified of ambulances , probably not linked, it's just me being stupid - there is no real reason for it and it is now affecting me going out though I am trying to overcome it and it seems to be better. I also don't like being around heavily pregnant women, (a result of me watching too many births on Coronation Street at a young age- they are always OTT) and living in fear of them having baby right there and then all screaming and shouting - that hasn't got better...
4. I am the youngest female here i think. There is a lad who is twelve.
5. I spend more time than I should on the internet mainly reading this and writing my own blog.
6. I want to be an Emergency Medical Dispatcher while most people I know want to be famous :)
7. I have no social life. My NYs Resolution is to get one :)

maybe this does the trick with the italic?

1)I spent 27.3%of last year in hospital
2)Im scared of rollercoasters
3)My middle name is matilda
4) i sleep with a blue rabbit called mister
5) My chinese order: egg fried rice and king prawn/chicken chow mein
6)I went in 17 ambulances last year and i was not drunk on one single occasion
7) Im listening to Nickleback-Rockstar

whats a neurophys....thingy? it sounds important

The italic writing is hurting my eyes!

Ok, here we go...

1) I am Ambidextrous
2) "There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)" by The Eurythmics got to number 1 here in the UK on the day I was born
3) I've had nosebleeds since 1995 and although they have become less frequent over time, I've made it my new year resolution to have my nose cauterized!
4) I'm still troubled by a dream a friend had a few years back in which, I walked into a restaurant and shot everyone!
5) I want to be an actor, but if I didn't, I'd either be a Police Officer (being a fan of The Bill is the reason) or a medic of some kind (Casualty and "Tom" are to blame for that, plus the fact point number 3 means I don't fear blood)
6) Since the 23rd September 2006, I have been a voluntary Broadcast Assistant at a local radio station and I love it, yet I'm having trouble finding a payed job to do in the week!
7) Myself and my 2 brothers where all born on the same day, but in different years. Before anyone asks, no, my parents didn't have some kind of wall-planner thing going on or anything!

Was actually quite hard to whittle my random things down, as I've filled out so many of these things through emails and MySpace!

Anyway, hope you're keeping track of all these, Tom!