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2011: living in mortgaged 2 bedroomed (but reasonably sized) urban terraced house in Kingston-upon-Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, with husband Pete and five cats. Working as a web developer in our own small webdev business.

2001: living in rented 3 bedroomed (but too small) 1970s terraced house in Long Ashton, just outside Bristol, with (I think) eight cats.[edit: no - it was nine!] Married to and working with Pete as above.

1991: single mum living in mortgaged small terrace house in Great Yarmouth, working with first husband in small bespoke accounting software and network installing company (which we started after we divorced in 1985!).

1981: stay at home mum living in mortgaged large terraced house remarkably like this one, but split into three bedrooms upstairs, in Leicester. Was working on Saturdays at BHS as a supervisor. Two cats, I think.

1971: living in Perth, Scotland, with alcoholic single father in MoD 4 bedroom detached house of grandeur and deep unhappiness. Although I might have been at my convent boarding school on the day; that was full of grandeur and deep unhappiness too.

1961: living in rented 3 bedroom mansion flat inFitzgeorge Avenue, West Kensington, London with two deeply unhappy parents who loathed each other. The memories are still strong. I think I was at St Paul’s prep school then – they really did have ideas above their station and budget.

Was not even a twinkle in 1951, but as you can see, I am Very Old.

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Green				93
Liberal Democrat				65
UK Independence	-2
Labour	-35
Conservative	-41

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I identify as Green in most of these polls, but as our local Green candidate knows, I’m voting LibDem to get the Labour woman out.  Bring on proper proportional representation, say I!

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London W11 (born)
Perth, Scotland
London W14
Dunfermline, Scotland
Edinburgh (Queensferry Road)
Perth, Scotland (yes, again - father in MOD, so moved a lot)
Edinburgh (Stockbridge)
Edinburgh (Corstorphine)
Leicester (about 5 different houses)
Burgess Hill, Sussex
Norwich
Salhouse, Norfolk
Great Yarmouth
Gorleston, Norfolk (pattern here as I moved further and further east until my feet got wet)
Clevedon, Somerset
Long Ashton, near Bristol

It's quite a lot really, now I look back.

Post 3 things you'v done that you believe nobody else on your F-list has done:

1. Been on a nuclear submarine


2. Run a business with my ex-husband - we started it after we were divorced


3. Had Russ Conway and Petula Clarke at my christening

Not that exciting really, now I come to review it ...

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A.) Four jobs I have had in my life (other than current job):

Bank clerk at the TSB, import/export administrator, network engineer, temp

B.) Four movies I would watch over and over:
Strictly Ballroom, The American President, Notting Hill, anything with Johnny Depp

C.) Four places I have lived
Edinburgh, Leicester, Norfolk (various), London

D.) Four TV shows that I watch

Grand Designs, Channel 4 News, Question Time, Wife Swap (I know, I know)

E.) Four places I have been:

Monterey, Boothbay Harbor, Galway, Sorrento

F.) People who e-mail me (regularly):
Clients. They never stop.

G.) Four of my favourite foods:

Almost any "proper" Indian food, sausages, red cabbage, toast and marmite

H. ) Four places I would rather be right now:

Actually, I'm pretty happy here, but I'd go to Ireland right this moment.

J.) Four Things I am looking forward to this year:

Being solvent, spending a week looking after our grandson, surviving. That'll do.

K.) Four favourite authors:
Sebastian Faulkes, Margaret Attwood, Terry Pratchett, Nikki French

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Last time I was tested, it was 94 wpm, and the agency didn't quite believe it ...

well, apparently I'm a

Reserved Leader

reserved for what, I hear you ask? Who knows ...

and I don't believe it because that was in no way an IQ test, in my book. Odd questions were, but the rest was a mishmash of general knowledge and so forth (and my brain retains loads of useless info, so I'm good at general knowledge).

still, it whiled away half an hour's worth of displacement activity ...

"Reply to this entry by posting a picture of yourself, then post this sentence in your own journal."

perlmonger took this last autumn - I gave marypcb some info and quotes for an article she was writing, and she wanted a headshot to go with it.

"Bloody Well Right" |Crime Of The Century | Supertramp

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After you die... Reincarnated as Yourself After death, you will be reborn again as yourself. You will live the same life, unbeknownst to you. However, you will have vivid moments of déjà vu, as you probably have now.

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