Loved it, particularly the bit about proper English. It grates so much to see bad spellings / bad grammar. I’m all for the texting age and use the shorthand myself but think everyone is entitled to a rant!

Best wishes,

Veronica

Great list of 25 you have, looks like you’ve done quite a lot in your lifetime. I bet you could have easily gone on for way more than 25.

I’ve finally got my 25 things post up, you were the first the tag me, and then 2 other did before I actually got the post up. I’ve given you all a mention in my post.

Mine isn’t quite as interesting as yours, but I’m sure others will find it more interesting than I do.

Paul.

When I lived “north of the border”, we were just north of Glasgow. I haven’t been back for quite a while, but the last time that I did, the city had definitely changed and I believe that it continues to go from strength to strength.

All the best,

Roger

A fellow Cobol programmer.

Mind you I haven’t written cobol since back in 1997. Where were you working and what part of Scotland did you live in?

Speak soon,
John

Speaking of jazz, the other day I caught the end of a BBC retrospective on the life of Les Paul, the legendary guitarist who died recently. They showed some footage of a diminutive lady that was playing in a jazz combo with him. Her instrument ? Double bass. So Carol, who knows what may have happened if you’d have kept your DB !

All the best,

Roger

This was truly great reading. I related to quite a number of these points and really laughed at quite a few as well.

When in High School I wanted to join the School Orchestra and, all of only 5′2″ took home the Double Bass as my instrument of choice. Considering Mum and Dad could not locate me hidden behind this slightly? large instrument, they ‘gently’ persuaded me to return this instrument to the school (hoping I would probably return with a more ‘civilised?’ instrument such as the Clarinet, only to return home the next day with the ‘cello – (not really too much smaller) – I think they were not really happy about this, but they, at least, did not send me back to school to return it.

I also learned French at High School (for 6 years) and did extremely well in this subject. I thought I knew the language quite well until I had a French girl join my Class (I am a teacher) and within the first few minutes of conversation with her, I came to realise I had not retained as much as I thought I had.

Any rate, I absolutely love the post and will return to catch up more.

Thanks for making my day. I had a great chuckle, and it stirred up lots of memories, as well as giving an insight in to you and your experiences.

Cheers,

Carol Harridge

You put a lot of effort into this – very interesting.

Got agree with you on Spike Milligan – stupid at times, but sometimes histerically funny – tears rolling down the cheeks funny.

I’m also with you on ‘tuneful music’. I like you, are more than happy to listen to anything if I like it.

Good job Rog,

Andrew.

I find your 25 points interesting and even entertaining. Having been a computer programmer must be of great help to you even now I imagine.

I find some similarity with you in that I also took dance lessons in which most of the dances you mention were covered. I enjoyed it a lot and even went dancing and practiced what I learned with my dancing partner. But after about a year and a half we stopped.

I too sang in choirs, at least 4 of them.

I wish I could have flown on the Concorde like you. I can’t comment on all your points because of lack of space.

Just one more: English is my second language but I also shudder when I hear things like “Febuary” instead of February. And I hear that particular one a lot every year in North America.

Vance.

R.