A couple of things you might not know about me.......

oh - and my ambition also is to make friends with become obsessed with my Fitbit.

Wow, Jingl - I used to have a Raleigh All Steel with solid metal brake cables. I loved that bike, it went like the wind - downhill.

I can`t drive, but would love a new Toyota Yaris if I could.
I can`t swim, but love being near water, as long as I`m not in it, or on it!
I ran away from home just before I was 13, and never went back.
I hate pasta in any form, that goes for rice as well.
I`m terrified of most insects and creepy crawlies.

Had to look up what a Fitbit is. Looks nasty!

I'm a champion remover, with my bare hands and not hurting the creatures, of daddy longlegses from tents. Kids are always dead impressed.

I drive a POLO - we have had them for years

I love music, music, music, singing, singing, singing

I wish I had learned the piano properly, so that I could play without having to look at the keys!

I have never watched Strictly!

I am 5 ft 7 inches and weigh about 10 stone; hubby is the same height and weighs less than 8 stone. We are practicing to be on a seaside postcard!

I love the sea and miss it dreadfully.

I once went to a nudist island off Yugoslavia, but didn't have my glasses with me!

I play the flute and am learning the harmonica.

I drive a Fiat 500 it is white with Italian stripes down the side.
I used to have a mini but prefer the Fiat especially as it's ??0 road tax
I have been to couture dressmaking classes for years but still make loads of mistakes.
I am veggie and my favourite food is cheese accompanied with dry white wine
I met the Rolling Stones in the 1960s and recently sold their autographs on eBay for a lot of money!

I drive a (rather old) Mercedes SLK called Iris, because of her colour.

I have the most horrendous cellulite on my thighs and bottom

I am a champion list maker and procrastinator.

I hate mirrors, they don't show what I feel.

I have started striking up conversations with strangers in the queue at supermarkets, even though I used to hate it when people did that to me when I was younger.

I have a Ford Focus which I think is very boring but DH says is reliable.

I hate driving in the dark - all those headlights coming at you.

I am terrified of spiders but don't mind mice.

I have been playing badminton for 47 years.

I love writing and am over the moon because I have just had an article accepted by a magazine.

I drive a Skoda City Go- being a Scot I like a good bargain.

I love all animals

I hate poached and fried eggs, jelly, custard, tapioca- need I go on?

I make up my mind and then do whatever.

Je ne regret rien.

I wanted to be a librarian when I was young so that I could read all the books!
I drive a red Yaris, it's a great little car.
I like to drive fast!
I eat too many biscuits
I can be very sarcastic, so don't post much!
I'm getting very good at keeping quiet when I don't approve of stuff.
I love Gransnet

phoenix - oh, I talk to people, too. I used to get really embarrassed when I was young and my Dad did it but now look at me!

What a lovely thread hope the posts help with a bit of cheer gillybob
I drive a Peugueot convertible which I love it is 14 years old impractical,uneconomical and a bit beat up ( like me I think)
Since my 60th birthday I have kept a diary.
I love natural youghurt
I hate any sort of meat pie
I cannot swim
I cannot crochet or cook
I love housework
I enjoy reading a good murder the more violent the better
I also love Richard Gere and Colin Firth and DH
I am a lifelong Archers fan

I failed the eleven plus.
I received a gold medal for highest marks in the state final exams in nursing.
I have a chauffeur who drives the Mercedes GL 350.
I hate dogs, love cats but can't have pets because the whole family are allergic.
I am completely tone deaf but gave birth to a DD who has perfect pitch
Love good food.
Drink only pink champagne.

Great idea gillybob, hope all these posts cheer you up

I used to play guitar

I didn't take 'O' Level Maths until I was 37 - the last year they were set, before being replaced by GCSEs.

I was the best cartwheeler in my year at school

My earliest memory is of being in the pram at around 9 or 10 mths old (my mother said I must have been about this age because the memory is of lying down while she lifted my feet up to get the gripe water from under the mattress - any older and I wouldn't have been lying, but sitting)

I had to appear in court aged 11 charged with trespassing on railway property . My friend and I had been sitting on the grassy embankment having a picnic when PC Plod came along and took our names and addresses and told us we were trespassing

I made my wedding dress, my veil, and all my bridesmaids' dresses.

I locked myself in the bathroom and cut all my hair off aged 18 after a disastrous perm and had to wear a wig till it grew back

This has cheered me up no end. Thank you everyone. All these little nuggets of new information make me feel like I know you all a whole lot better.

Wow some surprises too. I mean fancy cars, motorbikes, pianists, mountaineers, spider catchers, singers, egg phobics, biscuiteers, writers, sporty types, list makes, dimpled bottoms, dressmakers,musicians, 1973 Raleigh bike owners, cooks, bakers, caravanners, Fitbitters, toilet dreamers, secret Kitkat eaters, secret pot cultivators, train gigglers, toe nail painters, fire engine phobics, pizza haters, train lovers, world travelers, house movers, cooked cheese gaggers, convertible owners, diarists.........................................

I am well impressed.

Nice thread!

I'm 4ft 10.5 (never forget the half)

I love reading, anything and everything

I love travelling

I'm a little bit scared of cats

I regret not continuing with piano lessons when I started at 10 yrs old

I love my Ford Focus.
I drive just a wee bit too fast.
I love 60s music and really love country music.
Love Willie Nelson and Kris Kristopherson music.
Sound like a toad when I sing.
Can't play any musical instrument.
I'm rubbish at sports.
I am a little fat rounded in the middle.
Love my thick hair.
Saw Van Morrison in concert - not much personality
I'll admit to going to X-Factor show (tickets were a gift so had to go)
Love cats.
Don't always speak up when I should - then beware when my temper really goes, which is rarely.
Can't stand Game of Thrones - even though it is filmed locally.
Love Peter Kay and Michael McIntyre.
Love Doc Martin
Love this thread.
Love GN

I don't have a car and gave up driving in the 90's.
I am very overweight.
I can't swim and panic near water.
I am very outspoken but not on GN.
I love wine.
I am also very partial to a G&T.
I watch very little TV.
I have hundreds of books on my kindle.
I am actually a very boring and predictable person.
I am mostly in bed by 9:30pm see point above.

I am 5 feet tall and want to be 5ft 6ins.
I love any kind if fish dishes - especially fish pie!
I can drive but seem to have lost my confidence in recent years, so don't do it very often.
I love rivers, heather moors and gritstone edges.
I play the piano badly and can't get through any piece without making a mistake! But I love it.
I'm a not very good fly angler, but I love that too!
I like to play cards, board games - and football with our grandson.
I hate football.
I was once a drill instructor.
I used to go potholing.
I like art galleries and art exhibitions of any sort.
I had a motor scooter in the sixties.
Like annsixty I also see myself as a very boring and predictable person - and suspect that neither of us, in truth, actually are!

Great thread gillybob

I drive a Mini Countryman.

I love wine (but you might already know that )

In my youth I was the discus throwing champion at school.

I had polio as a child and now I run!

I am claustrophobic.

I love France.

I fell over visiting my Dad's grave a few years ago and broke my front teeth

My wonderful husband bought me new ones ... teeth that is...

I adore listening to The Archers Omnibus on i-player - in bed with my headphones on.

I love Dirty Dancing

I have become my mother's mother

I spoil my grand-daughters something rotten!

gilly mwahhh and the biggest {{{hug}}}

I have driven all manor of vehicles from mk1 Cortina,mr2 and various sports cars, 7.5 ton truck and now drive a tiny Aygo which fits me and three of my DGC on the school run and costs pennies, but love it.

I HATE TRIPE. oh and spiders!!!!

Love cheese and onion crisps, rather than chocolate.

Would have loved to be a civil engineer or a Social Worker, did train as a House Mother expecting to then go onto Social work but life got in the way and ended up as Office Manager, me who would rather have jumped off the Tyne Bridge that to have an office job.

And one day I will move into my FINISHED farmhouse.

Hope you are feeling happier gillybob

I hate driving and try to avoid it as much as possible.
I am extremely short sighted (just as well I don't do much driving)
Love food and
Hopeless at anything remotely artistic
Have shrunk at least 2 inches since I was in my twenties
Have a mass of hair, which is all you ever see of me in photos (which is good as I am not very attractive otherwise)
Love my family to bits
Love books but prefer real books to kindle
Am probably the only one who thought jingle's fitbit was some handsome personal trainer - I now know better