I am anaphylactic allergic to Bees - crazy allergic, but yet I would love a bee hive
I have two tattoos (back and bikini) 3 earrings in each ear, nose & belly piercing (I haven't worn my belly piercing for 8 years)
I always wanted to do a degree in Home Science and teach - I was told "there are enough teachers in this family, there will be no more" - so I went on to study and graduated as a Legal Executive (Para Legal) I worked for one of New Zealands largest law firms. I've been a Debt Collector, a Litigator, a Credit Controller, and a Credit Manager.
I am an Anglophile
I am a Royalist - Prince William and I share a birthday
I am an Anglophile
I am a Royalist - Prince William and I share a birthday
I like order in my life:- tins need to be stored like with like, pillows straightened before retiring to bed at night, my wardrobe is not only like with like hung it is also colour co-ordinated and all the coat hangers match and hang facing the same way.
My middle name is Helen. And that is that. I always thought of my name to be very plain and old fashioned and wished my parents had blessed me with a real trendy hippy 70's name like 'Sky', 'Saffron', 'India', 'Summer' or 'Crystal' but nope I got Helen
I have been watching Coronation Street since I was a little girl. I remember sitting and watching it with my Grandmother and Mother, and that is when Hilda Ogden was still in it
I am a descendant of convicts
At 26 my 3x Great Grandmother Anne was tried for stealing money and received 10 years PLUS deportation.
She was sent to Tasmania /Australia on the prison ship Greenlaw which departed Dublin/Ireland on the 07th March 1844. It carried 120 female convicts and 29 children convicts it arrived in Tasmania/Australia on 02nd July 1844.
I feel very fortunate I've visited the Vatican twice, (2003 & 2007) sophisticated to have eaten Pain au choclat in Paris twice (2003 & 2012), however, it is Barcelona (2007) and the Sagrada Familia that is calling my name to visit again.
I adore entertaining for my friends. It is so lovely to express caring and nurturing to those I love.
She was sent to Tasmania /Australia on the prison ship Greenlaw which departed Dublin/Ireland on the 07th March 1844. It carried 120 female convicts and 29 children convicts it arrived in Tasmania/Australia on 02nd July 1844.
I feel very fortunate I've visited the Vatican twice, (2003 & 2007) sophisticated to have eaten Pain au choclat in Paris twice (2003 & 2012), however, it is Barcelona (2007) and the Sagrada Familia that is calling my name to visit again.
I adore entertaining for my friends. It is so lovely to express caring and nurturing to those I love.
Inspired and encouraged by Nin of Make Life Beautiful
17 comments:
I too wanted to be a domestic science teacher - Ended up doing HR and specialisiing in IR/ER. Love this post
What a shame that you never got to follow your heart into teaching. Do you think you every will?
Loved these random facts :)
Cool to find out some more fun facts about you!
A Coro fan!! Wouldn't have picked that one!!
Is retraining an option?
Love the colourful family history!! And the fact that you watch Corrie!! Hee hee. I think I do remember Hilda Ogden (just!)
I love your family history.
I think its the greatest shame in the world to be told you can't do the course you want. I think your nurturing nature won out though don't you? Wish we lives in the same town sometimes hun xx
oh Saffron I love this post :o) Did you know the Sagrada Familia back face is designed by a NZer? I have a huge book on Gaudi in the shelves. I loved Barcelona SO much :o) (you know I'm calling you saffon from now on and I'm singing 'I'm just mad about Saffron...') xx
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Loved reading all about you. I'm pretty nosy!
Enjoy your middle name, mine is Blanche....yuk! Apologies to other Blanches but it was hard to live with in the 60s when everyone else was Jenny or Margaret or HELEN!
I think it knew most of it :) except coro started as a child!! noooooo!!!
hey lovely to meet you xxx
No, I did not know these things about you. But that wouldn't be hard because I have only ever met you briefly once! Lovely to know a little more about you. My middle name is Marie and I always wished for something more exotic too! Thanks for sharing.
I LOVE Coronation Street!!!
though I have not watched it for over a year :(
and I love you
and no
I did not know some of these things
♥
love and light
i am a barcelona/gaudi fan too and have been there several times. i love the family friendliness, that you can take your kids out to restaurants at midnight and it's fine and normal and no silly drunks to shield them from.
I thought about home ec. i got an A plus even though i burned the cake in my final exam-because i critiqued my failure so well-mental!
i love these lists. you are very interesting and not predictable x
I love reading these little snippets about you!
Victoria x
Florence and Mary
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