The FastDay Forum

Where do you come from?
Born in Wales to English parents

Where do you live now? (no, I'm not asking a postal address! a country or region is plenty)
Bedfordshire, UK

How old are you? (an age range will do!)
42

What do you "do"? (eg - what's your job, are you a homemaker?, volunteer work?, in education or training for something?)
Design/operate/maintain traffic light installations on the highway; volunteer role as an Equine Welfare Officer

What are your hobbies/interests?
Horses, cooking, reading, nature

What do you wish you had more time for?
More of the above! And more animals, and gardening, and motorcycling...

Do you have a partner and/or kids?
Boyfriend. No kids (never wanted any, although I have a fab niece)

Do you have any pets?
Currently three cats plus the waifs/strays that wander in, two horses, three goldfish

What's your favourite colour?
Black, then purple

What's your favourite film?
Most favourite is the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Others include the Omen trilogy, Sixth Sense, Seven. Chocolat as my 'gooey' choice

What's your favourite song or band?
Eclectic taste from all genres, but fave band ever is Pink Floyd

What's your desktop wallpaper?
Stonehenge

Where do you come from?
Darling Downs Queensland

Where do you live now? (no, I'm not asking a postal address! a country or region is plenty)
South Coast NSW

How old are you? (an age range will do!)
Am amazed its 63 years. ... How did that happen!

What do you "do"? (eg - what's your job, are you a homemaker?, volunteer work?, in education or training for something?)
Just started a consultancy and landed a casual teaching position both in disability area

What are your hobbies/interests?
Preserving, gardening, anything creative from paper craft to art, writing, fashion

What do you wish you had more time for?
Writing and travel

Do you have a partner and/or kids?
Darling husband of 30 years and my boy is turning 21

Do you have any pets?
2 dogs and 3 cats and fish

What's your favourite colour?
Umm love colour am attracted now to muted shades blues greens and autumn colours

What's your favourite film?
Any bonnet drama and thrillers

What's your favourite song or band?
Eclectic taste will tune in to what every is playing from classic to latest

Wallpaper on mobile close up pink hydrangeas and trusty iPad where I do my forum posts has a pink lily pad flower, seem to have gone all girly with my wallpapers, said I love colours

Where do you come from?
Brighton

Where do you live now? (no, I'm not asking a postal address! a country or region is plenty)
Cornwall

How old are you? (an age range will do!)
68

What do you "do"? (eg - what's your job, are you a homemaker?, volunteer work?, in education or training for something?)
Retired from work

What are your hobbies/interests?
Gardening - growing, propagating, weeding pruning I love it all; reading; the countryside; MOOCs - very addictive; sewing (I love altering clothes to make something new)

What do you wish you had more time for?
Everything I missed out on when I was younger

Do you have a partner and/or kids?
Husband, son, daughter, 4 grandchildren

Do you have any pets?
1 dog Maisie, 1 cat Rusty

What's your favourite colour?
Hard to choose, I always say red but I love all vibrant colours - although always wear dull colours

What's your favourite film?
Another difficult one but I never get tired of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Laurel and Hardy always has me in stitches.

What's your favourite song or band?
Very mixed - classical, rock, jazz, swing, blues, folk.
Doors, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Frank Sinatra, George Gershwin, Mozart, Beethoven, Erik Satie, John Adorney, Enya.....etc. etc.

What's your desktop wallpaper?
At the moment it's a forest of twisted trees, sometimes photos of my grandchildren, or spectacular scenery, or unusual things in nature

Where do you come from? Nottingham, UK to age 10 then Leicestershire

Where do you live now? Wigston, 4 miles south of Leicester

How old are you? 63

What do you "do"? Retired - had Engineer in my job title, last work was testing a real-time computer control system from the user perspective

What are your hobbies/interests? Climbing, parkrun, music (all sorts except country), bellringing, motorcycling, wine, food. Historically skiing, gliding, model aircraft, marathon and trail running, mountaineering but getting too old...

What do you wish you had more time for? Breathing! The longer the better...

Do you have a partner and/or kids? The first MrsPete and two big kids (19/24)

Do you have any pets? Not since the rats passed away

What's your favourite colour? Greeny-blue or pinky-purple, not sure

What's your favourite film? Oh Brother, Where Art Thou - or Some Like It Hot

What's your favourite song or band? Genesis, Lamb Lies Down On Broadway album, Pink Floyd as a close second, Wish you Were Here/The Wall

What's your desktop wallpaper? Yosemite valley from Clouds Rest summit, taken in 2012 when big son and I spent 3 weeks in California

Where do you come from? PEI, Canada

Where do you live now? same place!

How old are you? 56

What do you "do"? teacher-librarian (retired early because of health problems)

What are your hobbies/interests? music, reading, beaches in the summer, walking, photography, blogging, acrylic art, baking

What do you wish you had more time for? I have time - I need discipline to do all I love doing!

Do you have a partner and/or kids? Married for 37 years, 4 sons and 1 daughter, 4 daughter in laws, 1 grand-daughter and 3 grandchildren on the way!

Do you have any pets? Dog Sophie and kitty Mila

What's your favourite colour? blue

What's your favourite film? Little Women

What's your favourite song or band? Paper Lions (my sons' band)

What's your desktop wallpaper? art pieces that I have on rotation

This is getting to be my favourite thread, thank you Moogie.

Me too @coffeetime! love finding out more about other members' lives or am I just nosey?

Where do you come from?
London, Ontario, Canada

Where do you live now? (no, I'm not asking a postal address! a country or region is plenty)
Ottawa, Canada

How old are you? (an age range will do!)
44 (aka XLIV)

What do you "do"? (eg - what's your job, are you a homemaker?, volunteer work?, in education or training for something?)
Technical writer in the telecom industry.

What are your hobbies/interests?
I crochet. Then I learned to knit. Now I'm learning to spin yarn. I also used to be a runner but a series of injuries have pretty much quashed that. I also love to play video games.

What do you wish you had more time for?
Playing with my fiber.

Do you have a partner and/or kids?
Married (21 years), no kids

Do you have any pets?
3 cats

What's your favourite colour?
Blue

What's your favourite film?
Fifth Element (and I watch it frequently)

What's your favourite song or band?
Jann Arden is my favourite singer. Fav band is probably Great Big Sea.

What's your desktop wallpaper?
Picture of myself carrying the Olympic Torch during the torch run leading up to the Vancouver Olympics.

Yes, I'll add my thanks Moogie. It's nice to get to know everyone a little better

]Where do you come from?

Leeds

Where do you live now? (no, I'm not asking a postal address! a country or region is plenty)

Bradford

How old are you? (an age range will do!)

37

What do you "do"? (eg - what's your job, are you a homemaker?, volunteer work?, in education or training for something?)

Lunchtime supervisor and After School TA, also do 3 afternoons a week as a volunteer listing to readers. I am also the chair of Friends of Swain House which is my girls school and where I work.

What are your hobbies/interests?

Games on Facebook, reading, spending time with my family and friends

What do you wish you had more time for?

Spending time with my family and friends

Do you have a partner and/or kids?

Husband and 3 girls aged 20, 11 and 5

Do you have any pets?

None unless you count the husband and kids!

What's your favourite colour?

I like purples and burgundy

What's your favourite film?

Mamma Mia, always makes me smile no matter what mood I am in. Plus i love most the Disney films

What's your favourite song or band?

Not sure on this one I tend to listen to alot of different songs, I have liked everyone from Queen through to One Direction (sad but my 2 youngest are obsessed)

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A fab Picture of my girls

Where do you come from?
Hereford, grew up in the Forest of Dean.
Where do you live now? (no, I'm not asking a postal address! a country or region is plenty)
Gloucester
How old are you? (an age range will do!)
34
What do you "do"? (eg - what's your job, are you a homemaker?, volunteer work?, in education or training for something?)
Volunteer counsellor
What are your hobbies/interests?
Reading-self-development books, crime (love the Alex cross series), spiritual magazines, diet and nutrition books. Love all things Italian (it's in the blood). Travelling, usually that's to visit my parents in Italy
What do you wish you had more time for?
Self-exploration and personal development
Do you have a partner and/or kids?
One teenage daughter
Do you have any pets?
3 cats and one snake
What's your favourite colour?
Purple
What's your favourite film?
Haven't got one but I never tire of brave heart!!!!
What's your favourite song or band?
Oh my gosh, loads! Can't pick!!
What's your desktop wallpaper?
It's a motivational quote that I can't remember of the top of my head, my laptop is sleeping!

Where do you come from? Liverpool,North West England

Where do you live now? Back in Liverpool via Austria and London!

How old are you? 64 but 19 at heart..still stuck in a 60s timewarp!

What do you "do"? Retired Medical Social Worker,working with elderly and sick. Also qualified as a counsellor and worked weekends at a GP practice alongside fulltime work

What are your hobbies/interests? Hmmm...my time is often taken up trying to get well as been ill for several years now
When i can, i love to be in nature,in the park or woods or countryside,or walking on the beach.
I enjoy listening to music and go to gigs when i' m up to it..i love seeing live bands and i like going to fetes,car boots,art galleries,shops,markets,cinema and theatre when health permits

What do you wish you had more time for? Socialising (i have all the time in the world but health problems means i often have to miss meeting up friends for meals, coffee,chats,laughs )

Do you have a partner and/or kids? i have one lovely grown up daughter and i' m unofficial godmum to several pets! Often petsit when friends/ family go on holiday. i also have a boyfriend.. four year anniversary next week

Do you have any pets? no but i would love a wire haired fox terrier called Gracie and / or a welsh terrier..would like to have two cats called Margot and Sylvia and if / when win lottery would like to open a dog/ cat/donkey sanctuary. At the moment all i have is a fluffy toy fox terrier called Edna Barky

What's your favourite colour?deep pink and purple..any rich jewel like colours really

What's your favourite film? Hard to choose but i love O brother Where Art Thou,and a lesser known film called Beautiful Thing..have seen the film Tommy at least 14 times ( big Who fan)..also love Etre and Avoir. Just seen Nebraska which was very good

What's your favourite song or band? Couldn't possibly say! Too many including The Killers,Love,Neil Young, and want to mention a great and underrated band called James. Favourite local band have disbanded,called Fly with Vampires...
And also love local bands Tramp Attack and Loose Moose.

What's your desktop wallpaper Daughter and Son -in - Law's wedding day photo xx

Great idea!!

Where do you come from?

Newcastle, UK.

Where do you live now? (no, I'm not asking a postal address! a country or region is plenty)
Northumberland, recently moved back in with my parents after living in Liverpool for 5 years.

How old are you? (an age range will do!)
23

What do you "do"? (eg - what's your job, are you a homemaker?, volunteer work?, in education or training for something?)
I'm a secondary science teacher but I also teach geography and citizenship.

What are your hobbies/interests?
I just read. That's all I do in free time.

What do you wish you had more time for?
I wish I had a hobby but I don't.

Do you have a partner and/or kids?
I've been with my boyfriend for a year but he lives away from me. 100 miles

Do you have any pets?
A dog, Oliver. He's a mix between a labrador and something else. We're not really sure.

What's your favourite colour?
Blue?

What's your favourite film?
I don't have one. I often watch titanic.

What's your favourite song or band?
My favourite song is Babylon by David Grey. I've loved it since I was little and don't know why.

What's your desktop wallpaper?
Elephants. They're my favourite animal.

Great idea @Moogie! Thanks x i' m saving them up for when i can't sleep ..something nice to look forward to! X

Where do you come from? Umeå, an university town up in the northern part of Sweden

Where do you live now? (no, I'm not asking a postal address! a country or region is plenty) Stockholm, capital of Sweden

How old are you? (an age range will do!) Closer to 60 than 50

What do you "do"? (eg - what's your job, are you a homemaker?, volunteer work?, in education or training for something?) Administration in the IT Dev unit within a large bank

What are your hobbies/interests? Selftaught quilter with appliqué as my true passion, reading, some years gardening, cooking, traveling

What do you wish you had more time for? I have all the time I need

Do you have a partner and/or kids? Yes The Dh since 19yrs (how did that happen??) and two much beloved sons 18 and 15 this year

Do you have any pets? Two Rhodesian Ridgeback girls: Fiona (12) and Arwen (9 in the spring) and my baby - Diego a 2yr old Jack Russell boy.

What's your favourite color? Turquoise, purple and pink - but only in quilting. I wear only black, grey, brown and of white.

What's your favourite film? Gladiator and Flying Daggers.

What's your favourite song or band? Fleetwood Mac above all, but I do love my 80th and 90th rock and disco.

What's your desktop wallpaper? Found it at deviantART