The FastDay Forum

PennyForthem wrote: Reading this and realising how many people are missing at the moment.

Yes I agree! I wonder how they are? Hopefully they have reached their goal weights & are successfully maintaining?

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Where do you come from? Born in Cornwall, UK but in Australia for over 40 years

Where do you live now? Perth, Western Australia

How old are you? 44

What do you "do"? Credit Management Specialist

What are your hobbies/interests? Running and cooking

What do you wish you had more time for? Running

Do you have a partner and/or kids? Married 25 years with a son 23 and a daughter 21 (neither living at home)

Do you have any pets? We've had plenty over the years but now the kids have left home the pets are no longer replaced

What's your favourite colour? To wear black to look at dark green

What's your favourite film? Life is Beautiful

What's your favourite song or band? I'm not really a music person and prefer to listen to books on CD in the car

What's your desktop wallpaper? A photo of a bush running trail

I don't think I saw this when I joined so better late than never

Where do you come from? I was born in London but my family is from Galway in Ireland

Where do you live now? Sussex but not quite by the sea !

How old are you? (an age range will do!) 44 eeek how did I get to be this old !


What do you "do"? I'm a service delivery manager for one of the worlds biggest IT companies I work on a customer site getting all the problems with IT fixed and making sure we deliver to contract , its very stressful and I don't really enjoy it but I have worked in IT all my life and am not qualified to do anything else


What are your hobbies/interests? I fly !!! My husband and I have our own little plane called Rosie which I love to bits , I can't get a pilots licence myself as I can't pass the medical ( spine and balance problems) but I fly enough to get us out of a pickle if I had to and its my escape from the miserable job


What do you wish you had more time for? Flying, reading and cuddling my cat


Do you have a partner and/or kids?
One long suffering husband , my kids have paws and wings !


Do you have any pets?
A 2 year old rescue cat called Fifi who is a very bad cat turned good , love turned her from a slashing biting nightmare into a cuddle bug ! Before her Rusty my 20 year old rescue who now has her angel wings I had her for 19 years ...

What's your favourite colour?
Green


What's your favourite film?
Tough one this I can't choose between The Commitments and Roman Holiday !

What's your favourite song or band?
I can't choose just one I am a real folky so Seth Lakeman, Unthanks, Bella Hardy, Show of Hands ,Bellowhead, Jon Boden please tell me I'm not the only one here !

What's your desktop wallpaper?
Snoopy flying his kennel

Where do you come from? Manchester, UK

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

How old are you? (an age range will do!) 29 yo

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

What are your hobbies/interests? Music & Sports (running)

What do you wish you had more time for? Running

Do you have a partner and/or kids? Lovely fiance, no kids

Do you have any pets? One cat

What's your favourite colour? yellow

What's your favourite film? Titanic

What's your favourite song or band? Oasis ofc!

What's your desktop wallpaper? Johnny Depp

Good idea for those of us who've been here a while to reintroduce ourselves!

Where do you come from? It's complicated, originally Sussex, home is Tasmania but currently working in Qatar!

Where do you live now? Doha, Qatar but hopefully not for much longer

How old are you? (an age range will do!) Older than I feel! 52

What do you "do"? Environmental and Sustainability Manager

What are your hobbies/interests? Music, travelling, walking, bird watching, eating!

What do you wish you had more time for? Running

Do you have a partner and/or kids? Him Indoors - the hubby

Do you have any pets? Wish we did

What's your favourite colour? Green

What's your favourite film? Don't have one I can think of

What's your favourite song or band? Radiohead

What's your desktop wallpaper? Antarctica

Oh yes, let's provide an update (in blue) after more than 3 years
Finally, here we go:

Where do you come from?
Enschede, The Netherlands

Where do you live now?
Enschede, The Netherlands, indeed, not a very adventurous type of guy

How old are you?
53 (56)

What do you "do"?
I teach and do research in policy analysis, University of Twente

What are your hobbies/interests?
Lots of sports: speedskating, organising speedskating races (400 meter track), bit of running, supporting the local Football club. Fancy to watch some cricket, but since the BBC is the only UK TV station to be seen over here there is not much to be seen any more (no change here )

What do you wish you had more time for?
Read some good books while sitting in the sun (which includes me not only needing more time, but also needing to consider emigration to a country with a different climate). Spend our winter in New Zealand summer for 5 weeks and can confirm: emigration would help, but recent changes in Dutch retirement law, postponing retirement from 65 to 67 and than even 3 months more and no idea where this will end once I get there doesn't help at all!

Do you have a partner and/or kids?
Wife and two (grown up) kids

Do you have any pets?
No

What's your favourite colour?
Sorry, really don't have one

What's your favourite film?
Not in the habit of watching many. However favourite TV-series: Yes, Minister. Should have added The Sopranos!

What's your favourite song or band?
Joe Jackson, Genesis (yes, daddy is getting old)

What's your desktop wallpaper?
No wallpaper, just a standard colour (did I already say I was not a very adventurous type ) Now standard Windows 10

oh yay, great to see who everyone is!
Here's mine:

Where do you come from? Born in South Africa, living in the USA for 19 years now,

Where do you live now? currently 9 years in Jacksonville, Florida (NOT a fan of the humidity, ugh)

How old are you? (an age range will do!) A feisty 51!

What do you "do"? Software developer

What are your hobbies/interests? Poker, traveling, reading, listening to music, socializing

What do you wish you had more time for? TRAVELLING!

Do you have a partner and/or kids? Single (looking for my next ex-husband), one kiddo of 21, freshly graduated and just started her first job

Do you have any pets? Two cats, one of which thinks he's a human or a lion.

What's your favourite colour? Purple

What's your favourite film? Can't pick one, have a favorite in just about every genre

What's your favourite song or band? JJ Grey $ Mofro

What's your desktop wallpaper? Picture of my daughter's hand holding a glass of wine with vineyards in the background (taken on a recent trip to South Africa)