10 things I've done that you probably haven't

[Milims]

6. Been on the telly dancing with Lesley Ash on the "Tube"

My friend used to work on the Tube - she looked after the guests - boy has she some tales to tell!

[KathyLauren]

1. flew jets in the Air Force
2. am a firefighter (that's two dreams of every little boy: pilot and fireman)
3. went on a pilgrimage to India
4. had a personal audience with the Dalai Lama
5. saw the Beatles perform live in 1964
6. don't owe anyone any money
7. discovered I had a cousin that I never knew about
I'm starting to run low. The rest are things that folks out in the world probably haven't done, but many regulars here have...
8. became a practicing hippie at age 50
9. packed in the career with no parachute
10. moved to paradise

[Millymollymandy]

Pelmetman When I read the sex in Mike Reid's bedroom I did scroll down to see if it was Sue though!

[boboff]

Well this is an interesting thread. Makes you wonder what you have done with your life!

1. Flown a Glider solo around Weston Super Mare.
2. Won the paperboy of the year competition.
3. Got a job at 17 working behind a bar, only for my estranged mother to phone the employer and tell them my age.
4. Employed a team of 20 fudge packers.
5. Dropped my phone out of my pocket as I got in my "Jag" on Oxford Street down a 20 foot drain.
6. Been the subject of an emergency tree preservation order, as with my little chain saw I was an imminent threat to the public ammenity.
7.Bought a house converted into 10 bedsits, including a 20 meter Bathroom extension, only to find out I needed planning permission, and couldn't get it.
8.When the Pub Closed that I used to go to, me and my partner bought the lease within 24 hours of it closing......expensive pint.
9.Was circumsied at 13, EMBARRASING!!!
10.Developed recipes with Gary Rhodes, Jamie Oliver, & the Tanner brothers.


Well that wasn't so bad, boy I have made a few dodgy decisions! The one I know you will all have done, but I feel most proud of, thats giving up a stressfull job at 37 to look after my children to enable my wife to train as a nurse. Best thing I ever did.

[bonniethomas06]

Ha! These are brilliant!

1. I'll match your extra in casualty, although I got told off by the director for over-acting! (they showed it though!)

2. Spent the night on a stone bothy perched edge of a cliff in the outer-hebredies listening to waves crash and seals call, with a peat fire to keep warm.

3. Skydived from 14,000 feet (well, I was strapped to a professional anyway)

4. Won the 2010 Kington Langley Scarecrow Festival People's Choice award with a 'YMCA' set of scarecrows and was in the local paper (if you live in KL you will get that this is a big deal)

5. Fitted a kitchen and bathroom all by myself at the age of 22.

6. Eh... struggling now... This year had an english breakfast which we produced entirely from our own garden (except the tea and milk)

7. Got together (and still am and will likely marry) a random stranger who used to smile at me/visa versa every day on my walk to work.

8.Don't know anyone famous but David Bellemy opened our school pond and Monty Don said 'excuse me' to me once.

9. A diving one..ran out of air when diving in strong currents(!)

10. Worked full time while I was a student (boringly)

[pelmetman]

6. Been on the telly dancing with Lesley Ash on the "Tube"

My friend used to work on the Tube - she looked after the guests - boy has she some tales to tell!

Milims do you know if I could get old copies of the program as I only had 20 minutes to warn Sue that I was going to be on the telly, and instead of finding someone to tape it she, and her mate spent the whole time nearly wetting them selves with laughter watching me

[Mrs H]

This thread is class! But has also made me think I havnt done much with my life yet as I can't even think of one never mind 10!!! Hey ho ill be 30 in 4 weeks so hopefully I've got plenty of time to catch up!! Lol x

[oldfella]

Got bombed out twice.
Stood in Trafalgar Square for the Coronation. ( in uniform I might add)
Smashed my front teeth out, after landing in a tree by parachute
Lived in a hole in the ground for a few months. ( Military)
Worked with Bridget Bardot.
Went drinking with Bob Mitchum
Had a chat with Princess Di and Prince Charles, with my Daughter.
Broke down in an Very old Ford Prefect in the rush hour Oxford Circus.
Used to eat with "The Ladies Of The Night" in the "Cabbies Huts" when doing ghosters in the Theater
Had the Pub in London "The Star and Garter" Putney.
Spent 5yrs rebuilding a roofless Barn into a 4 bedroom house.

[Alice Abbott]

I didn't finish my 10 items, I was distacted by screaming babies. So...

4. I dropped our hotel keys overboard when on a gondola ride in Venice. I blame Mack. Had he not asked me to make sure I had them I would not have pulled them from my pocket with a flourish. Watching his open-mouthed amazement as they arched into the water was ALMOST worth the trouble we had later...

5. Woke up in a tent on a camping trip in Northern California to find what was probably a gopher snake curled up right next to my head. These things are reasonably harmless but look horribly like a rattle snake, are about five feet long and can even imitate the rattle. I didn't stop to check what he actually was, I was out of there!

6. Once ate alligator meat. Chewy and definitely NOT like chicken.

7. Went up on the top of a light aircraft as a "wing walker" as a favour to a friend. The candidate he had recruited had backed out. Sensible girl...

8. Learned how to "360" and land a BMX bike after spending an afternoon supervising a bunch of teenage guys in a park area. I had a LOT of scrapes and bruises but the cheers and general "respect" I got was was amazing.

9. Learned Morse code, 20 words a minute send and receive. Pretty proud of that, although the wartime aircrews would probably laught at it as chickenfeed...

10. Bottom of the barrel time here... Took a huge ice cooler of sodas in the back of the car out to near the Edwards Air Force base in the Mojave when one of space shuttles was coming in. The dollars we made paid for our fuel and lunch AND we got to see the shuttle land, sonic booms and all. I'm not sure I would do this myself but I was just a kid out with Mom, Dad plus four siblings.

[oldjerry]

Once grew hundreds of banana plants every month for sale.
For a bar room bet rode a old honda Lands end to J o' Gs and back in 3 days without backup in November.
Got arrested twice in the same day for being drunk and disorderly.
Had a sow have 16 in one farrowing,all survived(obviously had to bottlefeed 2 for weeks).
Woke at night to serious housefire,narrow escape,house gutted.
Set off by motorbike to NZ in the late 70's,ran out of cash in Islamabad,on the same trip........
Rode a motorcycle through Iran a week after the revolution(didn't know anything about it)
Didn't have any children till I was 45,then had 4 in 6
Met Princess Margeret when I was 14 (smelt like she'd been drinking even more than I had).
Got thrown out of a Reeves and Mortimer gig for ''being silly'' (!)
Saved a good friends life when he was choking,only for him to drown in a canal 2 years later aged 42.
Had a cup of tea in June Whitfield's kitchen dressed in full biker gear.We talked for ages,she was lovely.
Had a daughter strong and brave enough to have 2 operations while still in the womb,only to die the day she was born.

[Minnesota]

1. Drove 13 days 5038 miles (8107 km) on one motorcycle trip.
2. Jumped off a railroad trestle bridge into the icy cold Yellowstone River
3. Jumped off a bridge into the luke warm Mississppi River
4. Ate Rocky Mountain Oysters
5. As a member of the city police reserve, I have arrested a drug dealer.
6. Cast lead bullets for handloading small arms ammunition
7. Tent camped in the Big Horn Mountains in the Snow
8. Water Skiied on Big Lake, 7 days after Ice out.
9. Taught myself how to weld while building a hydraulic woodsplitter
10. Found the image of Jesus in the grain of a chunk of Oak while I was splitting firewood.

[southeast-isher]

11.) Had sex on Chesil Beach in Dorset before walking the length it and then back to Weymouth.

12.) Saw Billy Connolly's willy as he stripped for Comic Relief, photographed him, and sold the picture.

13.) Saw Alys Fowler in the Flesh, got an autograph from author William Boyd and Alain de Botton.

[homegrown]

I don't know if I have done ten but here goes

1. got drunk with renee gayer
2. met Billy joel Back stage after rescuing a damsel from a fight in the audience
3. jumped off a waterfall (it twas an accident)
4. eaten pan-fried rams testicles
5. been a butler in a private gentlemans club

[clanpowell]

1. Chatted with Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter about Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme for 10 min.
2. Had tea at Buckingham Palace.
3. Sat on a porch with a wild Pine Martin whilst it ate banana jam on bread.
4. Been nose to nose with a North American Otter (Either side of glass but it was very cool)
5. Got permission in person from Steve Hackett to use his music at my wedding (Signed my copy of Selling England by the Pound and had chat with me and my family because I told him my mum was too embarrased to talk to him as well).
6. Made bacteria glow in the dark
7. Played buff rugby!
8. Scored the opening try in last years Stroud district cup final.
9. Been a lifegaurd at the St. Austel Beach festival, met the lead singer of the Levellers back stage and made a complete arse of my self ("I've got all your albums" etc etc)
10. Won the Colerne Primary School French fate fancy dress competition. (I was the only one who turned up in fancy dress mind!)

[southeast-isher]

1. got drunk with renee gayer

I have her 'Be There In The Morning' tune on a 7"!