Life Beyond

Around the forum we will read peoples experiences and stories of their particular MD, so I thought I would be a bit different and tell you about the things I get up to beyond my condition.

My cv of work starts with the Department of Education and ended with the Department of Work and Pensions, via temporary work with the MOD, some oil, research, leisure and motor industries, I was the ‘fixer’ sent in when the previous temp had fubar’d things [don’t know fubar? It is when things are Fudged Up Beyond All Recognition ]. The most interesting job years were those I spent on the Baronial Estate of the Lord Somerleyton Sir William Crossley KCVO DL, who was Master of the Horse to Her Majesty the Queen. Sometimes formally dressed for occasions at the Hall but sadly probably remembered for the day spent dressed as a belly dancer for the Camel Racing Event at the Estates country park.

A small piece of family folklore started me on a quest to research back into my family tree. I am planning this winter to go over again my research so I can add a family tree to my web site. So far, no previously undiscovered claim to land, goods or titles but have found a murderer, politician, cricketer and rouge! I have been concentrating on my paternal grandmothers ancestors, mostly grunts, working in stone quarries and stocking factories, unlike other families they moved and travelled covering most corners of the country. Anything to make tracking them down that bit more tricky

As for activities, well, being a lass with salty sea air on my lungs I studied Maritime Studies, including navigation, knots, sails, rules, concluding with the Merchant Navy Training Board 1-Day Course in Survival. I later did four trips with the Jubilee Sailing Trust onboard their square-rigged tall ships. Not exactly a Hornblower or a Jack Sparrow but exhilarating none the less, you can read extracts from my trip logs at my web site.

Being a little bit of a techno inquisitive I taught myself html language and put together a web site about a musician friend {url=http://www.stcgibb.com]Steve Gibb[/url] becoming his unofficially official site of his musical endeavours.

Off-line [there is such a thing apparently] I keep my fingers busy with stitchery, I have done a range of cross stitch projects from coasters and cards, to pictures some 16 inches square, working on linen and aida cloth with 14, 16 or 18 stitches to the inch. I intend to add some photos of my work to the albums area of my web site.

Book wise I am an avid Terry Pratchett, Agatha Christie, Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell reader, but my ultimate book is Derric Longden’s Cat Who Came In From The Cold, absolutely hilarious and sorrowful and every cat owner will identify.

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