I was raised in what was at the time, the most deprived (roughest) council estate in our town, and went on to pass the entrance exam into a very posh grammar school. To this day I still don't know how I'm supposed to behave.
I've been given a very stern telling off by a policeman twice. Once for stealing a police cone and walking down the high street with it on my head. And once for stealing a shopping trolley and pushing my friend down a very steep hill in it. ( I tried to do a runner when caught, but the policeman was a better sprinter than me). (My friend ended up having too go to casualty with a cut forehead).
Pupils from my school were barred from ever having a school trip to Totnes again after we thieved almost the whole contents of the local shops. I stole some jumping beans. I take great pride in the fact that I was the only person not to confess under a brutal interrogation from the head-mistress.
You wouldn't have wanted your daughter to be friends with me (for obvious reasons).
- I'm really good at keeping secrets. I was run over by a motorcycle when I was 5, whilst in my older brothers' care. They bribed me with some fizzy pop not to tell my Mother and she still doesn't know to this day. Also, I've never told my little sister where the little orphaned lamb she had as a pet ended up.
- I'm very shy, but I cover it up by talking non-stop. If there's a gap in the conversation I go into a blind panic. I'm also terrified of the telephone and will do anything I can to avoid answering it.
- I once felt a big hug from my big sister, and heard her whisper to me, many years after she had died. What she told me later came true.
So there you go, in a nut-shell - a law-breaking, loyal, neurotic, basket- case.
You sound like the perfect fun friend!! Hee Hee
Posted by: Lesley McCormick | June 13, 2007 at 12:41 PM
I think you sound perfectly normal!!!
Posted by: Lucy Locket | June 13, 2007 at 01:20 PM
love your 7 things. i wish i had a friend like you when i was 6. what fun! and f ii ever need a good secret keeper i know where to go!
Posted by: Nancy Cook | June 13, 2007 at 01:28 PM
I may not have wanted my daughter to be friends with you, but I want to be friends with you! :)
Posted by: Dana | June 13, 2007 at 01:46 PM
My goodness, who'd of thought it! Sounds like your friends must have a lot of fun.
I like your number 6, I really relate to that.
Posted by: Rebecca | June 13, 2007 at 01:59 PM
you sound wonderful. :)
Posted by: jen | June 13, 2007 at 02:24 PM
I love this list. Almost as much as I love your wedding recap. There's nothing like an inapropriate best man's speech. Ah. So good.
And #6? Oh, I get that. Except I start running my mouth out of nervousness and say completely inapropriate and senseless things. Good times. ;)
Posted by: amanda | June 13, 2007 at 02:42 PM
And you, like me, probably ran with scissors, too (metaphorically if not literally :-)
When my daughters were little, my mother-in-law admonished them, "Your mother didn't teach you to play with your food!" They grinned and, in their young sing-song voices, told her, "Oh yes she did."
Thanks for a wonderful post.
Posted by: debra | June 13, 2007 at 02:50 PM
Geez... Now I realize my childhood was so boring...
Posted by: deedeen | June 13, 2007 at 02:51 PM
Ooh, yours are one of the most interesting Seven Things I've read! The traffic cone thing made me laugh so much...and I'm SO with you on the not answering the telephone.
Posted by: littlemissmeshell | June 13, 2007 at 02:53 PM
Your list is one of the most interesting I've read - and you sound like a fun friend... I remember doing the shopping cart and police cone theiving when I was in high school myself - although, no one got caught, that time. LOL
Posted by: stacy | June 13, 2007 at 03:28 PM
stay away from my daughter - but won't you come play with me??? :)
Posted by: stacy | June 13, 2007 at 03:50 PM
I love this list. You are funny! This list made me laugh and it is nice to know that you are so unique. Sometimes I feel like I am the only person in the world that does not fit in...xo
Posted by: Dawn | June 13, 2007 at 03:52 PM
I get so intimidated by social functions I talk very little--unless drink is available. Then I just cannot shut up. It doesn't take much, just one or two beers and I go on and on.
I detest the phone. Email has been wonderful in finally allowing me to keep in touch with people. I am one of the few people I know who doesn't own a cell phone. I had one for a few months and could never remember to use it.
Posted by: Donna | June 13, 2007 at 03:52 PM
This is such a fun and interesting list!
Posted by: Autum | June 13, 2007 at 04:24 PM
Ooh! Lynn! That last one gave me the frissons!!
Very interesting list. I had no idea you were such a rebel. Like Little Ruby.
Posted by: Lisa K. | June 13, 2007 at 05:06 PM
I knew you'd be a lovely lass, but never quite so fun. May I borrow your mom from time to time? She's just what I need for boring school get-togethers.
Posted by: Vallen Queen | June 13, 2007 at 06:05 PM
"a law-breaking, loyal, neurotic, basket-case" but we love you none the less!
Posted by: rebecca | June 13, 2007 at 07:48 PM
I love your list! So fun:)
Posted by: Chara Michele | June 13, 2007 at 08:37 PM
a law-breaking, loyal, neurotic, basket- case.
That would describe most of my friend's, including me!
Posted by: Tinkerblue | June 13, 2007 at 08:38 PM
What a wonderful collection of facts about you.
Posted by: Mama Urchin | June 13, 2007 at 09:16 PM
You sound like you were/are a real pistol! That is meant in the most complimentary of terms.
I especially like number 7, about your sister. I lost my brother, and like to think that the weird things that happen or I feel are truly him in whatever form that may be.
Cheers!
Posted by: Maris | June 13, 2007 at 09:39 PM
Thank goodness, you're human!
Posted by: Joy | June 13, 2007 at 09:40 PM
KEEP ON JUST AS YOU ARE ...VERY HONEST ...I WOULD STAND BY YOU IN A CRISIS... YOU WOULD KNOW THE WAY OUT...AND WHICH WAY TO RUN...!
Posted by: RI | June 13, 2007 at 09:57 PM
Go Gurl!!!
You seem quite rational and sensible to me...
However, I find it quite hard to type with just the one finger free of the cosy jacket I have to wear when we have visitors... They're coming to take me away aha...
Posted by: Liz | June 13, 2007 at 09:57 PM
What a fabulous list. It's quite obvious why you are so well loved!
Posted by: thimbleanna | June 13, 2007 at 10:33 PM
Actually you sound like a lot of fun.......
Posted by: ellen | June 14, 2007 at 01:29 AM
Number 7 sounds so interesting. Care to elaborate?
Posted by: Brandy | June 14, 2007 at 03:14 AM
That's cool about your sister!
Posted by: Heidi | June 14, 2007 at 04:03 AM
Girl, you are hilarious!!! Amy W., Ann Arbor, MI
Posted by: amy wingate | June 14, 2007 at 05:32 AM
Got choked up on that last one.
Posted by: Heather | June 14, 2007 at 06:31 AM
I've been reading your blog for awhile, but have never commented. Today, I just couldn't resist - I think your last post makes you sound positively charming. =)
The blogs that I have always enjoyed reading the most, are the ones where the writer isn't afraid to be real, and show their less-than-perfect human side.
Posted by: Stephanie | June 14, 2007 at 07:03 AM
So did you think it was a dream or a premonition or some other kind of experience? Very interesting.
Posted by: Michelle | June 14, 2007 at 07:17 AM
Yep, but that's why we love you so much!! That, and the fact that you have awesomely talented fingers!
Posted by: julie | June 14, 2007 at 10:50 AM
that was great - so entertaining, and after the wedding post and all. I fill the silent gaps with inappropriate, nervous laughter! not great.
Posted by: samantha | June 14, 2007 at 01:03 PM
I think your mum might know about the motorbike now...
Posted by: janet clare | June 14, 2007 at 04:09 PM
How did such a little hellion grow up to make such cute little bears and such?? ha ha
#6 - I'm with you!
#7 - what did she tell you? I had a similar experience (without any communication though)
Love that you shared with us!
Posted by: Frizz | June 14, 2007 at 04:11 PM
Hillarious!
Posted by: Anne M. | June 14, 2007 at 04:16 PM
you forgot "honest" and "open" in your list of adjectives. All a perfectly accceptable combination if you ask me.
tonya
Posted by: tonya | June 14, 2007 at 04:39 PM
I think that was the most entertaining reveal I ever read.
Posted by: charlotte | June 14, 2007 at 05:42 PM
you are really special!
I like # 3 and 5, I can really picture it!
Posted by: Christine | June 14, 2007 at 06:49 PM
Just discovered your blog and have fallen in love with the first post I've read. What a great pace to your revelations! I look forward to returning again and again.
Posted by: Molly | June 14, 2007 at 08:39 PM
oh you really are naughty! so amazing about your sister, thats the one that struck me most.
oh, and loved attending the wedding thank you very much, just wished there was lots and lots of bubbly here but then its 9.30 in the morning and that just might be naughty. but then if someone offered......!
Posted by: louise | June 14, 2007 at 10:39 PM
HAHAHA! Walked with it on your head, that cracked me up! And WOW what a wonderful gift from your sister.
Posted by: RAchelle | June 15, 2007 at 07:15 AM
:) It's funny elder sister happened to ride a motocycle when little, but she felt and broke her anckle, my family of course knew about it, I was so afraid too, I cared for her. It was nice to read your '7 things'.
Hey, girl, I have a new blog, stop by and say hi, you might find sweet things there :)
Happy friday!
majeakann.wordpress.com (also linked my name)
Marjorie Ann*
Posted by: Majeak Ann | June 15, 2007 at 02:50 PM
sounds wonderful. let's be friends. i'll bring the champagne.
Posted by: e | June 15, 2007 at 03:41 PM
You are a beautiful and very talented woman! All your childhood experiences enrich your life today.
Thank you for sharing # 7--yes, thank God, there
is a some-place after this!
Posted by: Kathleen Rogers | June 15, 2007 at 07:03 PM
It is all true. You are wonderful. And funny. And you are MY sister. All mine. No wonder I love you so. No wonder Harvey call you " MY Auntie Linnie" xxx
Posted by: Kay | June 15, 2007 at 07:51 PM
You sound like a "top chick" to me! Fab post!
Posted by: suze | June 15, 2007 at 08:25 PM
Well hurrah for basket cases!
Posted by: carolyn | June 16, 2007 at 03:19 PM
I love that you didn't crack in the interrogation! I once knicked a lipstick - have never stopped felling the guilt!!!!
Posted by: Jude | June 17, 2007 at 07:37 AM
i have to tell you i laughed my way through your seven things and your fantastic family wedding. you sound like a hilarious person and your family sounds fantastic, especially your mom with no knickers on at the family wedding! your blog is fantastic, inspirational, fun and delightful! i am so glad i found it!
simplyolive.blogspot.com
i am so inspired i have to get work now!
Posted by: olive | June 17, 2007 at 12:08 PM
ROLF - I can read how good you are at keeping a secret! LOL Hope your mom doesn't read your blog! Thanks for the laugh!
Posted by: Carole Meier | June 17, 2007 at 03:56 PM
Just had a week in your neck of the woods (Salcombe), and had a great giggle on my return - great wedding photos we were on the beach that weekend (keep Devon quiet!)Jess
Posted by: jessica ward | June 17, 2007 at 08:04 PM
Lynn, what a great read, you have certainly brought back many memories from my life on the estate, much laughter and many tears. Harvey is a lucky little boy to have his auntie Lynn, fearless, loyal, and full of fun! Thankyou for putting Kay in touch with blogging, it really does mean such a lot to dad and I.
Posted by: Harvey's Grandma in Provence | June 17, 2007 at 09:47 PM
Hey there, I too hate the telephone something terrible. It was so great to hear that you avoid the phone as much as I do.
Posted by: melissa | June 18, 2007 at 03:09 AM
My kind of woman.
Posted by: Shula | June 18, 2007 at 03:03 PM
I think I love you!
Posted by: esther Veereschild | June 18, 2007 at 03:48 PM
Telephones are awful, aren't they? I love your list - I think I would've been scared of you at school, weakling child that I was, but I think you sound enormous fun now!
Posted by: Kitty Jimjams | June 18, 2007 at 07:07 PM
You sound as though you were loads of fun as a child. Spirited? Those facts were great.
Posted by: Jen | June 19, 2007 at 06:31 PM
hi found your blog for the first time today! love it! hilarious! have spent two hours reading and laughing have not done ironing or hoovering as intended so will look screwed up and have messy home but what a nice two hours.look forward to reading again soon! Tracey
Posted by: tracey | June 21, 2007 at 02:40 PM
Fun, fun to read more about you. You sound like you are a very shy extravert! Like me. :)
sheree
Posted by: sheree | June 22, 2007 at 07:30 AM
I admire your ability to have a perspective about yourself :) great read and it just makes me think what my "7 things about me" would be... thanks.
Posted by: ThreeGreenApples | June 29, 2007 at 06:31 PM
Tell me again the story about Shirley--and you know what? I once stole some jumping beans too...
;-) 'cause they are so much fun.
Posted by: theresa | July 05, 2007 at 09:27 PM
First time at your site. I love, love, love it...did I mention I love it! I can't wait for my little ones to be napping 'cause I'm really gonna check out your blog. I am absolutely, positively dying to know about #7. Very intriguing...can you elaborate?
Blessings to you and yours.
Posted by: Josie | July 09, 2007 at 09:44 PM
first time on your site, "cute"
You must be a gemini
Posted by: kathy | July 16, 2007 at 01:58 AM