What's the most "daring" thing you have ever done?

I am a 'heightist' too. Can remember screaming at the girls to get back from the edge - of the walls around York! Yet I was the one who enjoyed every moment of a helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon....bizzare! Cant do a step ladder but can do that.

Talking about heights reminded me of another scary thing. I was in my mid to late 40s and we all went to Seaworld on the Gold Coast. Our two lads loved the water slide - a very very long and high one - and they persuaded me to have a go. I got up there and looked down and wanted to turn back but people were behind me and so i had to do it. I was utterly terrified, screaming blue murder, and going faster and faster.... At the bottom I staggered off, stamping my feet in fury. A lifeguard was there to see if I was OK. I just said 'that was utterly and absolutely horrible" and looked around for my family.

They'd hidden, disowning me.

They still laugh at me when they remember.

MsCyprah - I was very interested to read about your time in America - what a wonderful thing to be able to help to get Obama elected - well done. Here's hoping he has another term to try to carry through his policies.