A post prompted by a challenge laid down over at Kittie Walker‘s website.
Within me there’s a natural shyness (yes, really) that makes me wonder why anyone would be remotely interested in seven things about me. Probably, the seven things you would find most surprising are things I wouldn’t share here but rather in quiet company, over a bottle of finest red. So the challenge is to make this interesting whilst honouring the discomfort I feel as I sit here writing.
Finding Lost Things
For some reason I am very good at finding things others have lost. I don’t know if it is because I am observant, pedantically logical or just persistent! It’s a useful skill, even though I can’t explain it. I just wish, as I get older, I could apply it to myself and the things I manage to lose.
Absent Fathers
I spent my childhood and teen years aching to be with my father and being obnoxious to my mother. It wasn’t until I had a child of my own that I was able to see things as they were and appreciate my mother for the stalwart she was and is. It remains a cause of profound sadness in my life that I allowed early events to taint so much of the rest of my life.
I Can Fly
Until family responsibilities made it too difficult to have two pilots trying to meet their individual work commitments I was a pilot. I hold a commercial pilot’s licence and an instructor’s rating. They were very happy days and I loved the challenge of being a woman in what was then still very much a man’s world.
Italy
I just love Italy. I love the language, the food, the lifestyle…….. One day I think I might live in Italy. It’s just a feeling I have.
I Participated in 3 Seasons of the Historic Rally Car Championship as a Co-Driver/Navigator 
My husband a long time, keen, rally driver found himself without a co-driver one Bank Holiday August weekend so I found myself dressed in fire proof overalls and strapped into the co-driver seat with instructions to hold tight! Much to his (and my) surprise I was able to read the map and call notes and get us round without crashing so I found myself with a job until we rather spectacularly rolled the car and wrote it off in 2001. Husband has been rebuilding it ever since but I don’t think his heart is in it.
Opera
Perhaps linked to the love of Italy – my favourite music is opera. If I had £10 for every time I had listened to La Traviata I would be a wealthy woman . I just wish some of them had happy endings!
A Pagan Buddhist
Deeply suspicious of organised religion but aware of the value of spirituality in life I am best described as a Pagan Buddhist! I find living in synch with nature to be effortless and am drawn to the cycles of the moon and changing of the seasons. My spiritual life has been enhanced by an interest in Buddhism being encouraged by a dear friend, Ron Rink and his writings over at Buddhist Belief
And that’s me. The more salacious and interesting stories are reserved for one of those quiet evenings in…………
And now I hand over this baton to
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