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About me . . .
Hi, welcome to the page that tells you a bit about me! This isn't going to be interesting so it's down to you if you don't quit now. My name is Holly and I was born and bred in Derbyshire, England. After almost 6 years of living in the lovely city of Edinburgh, Scotland, I moved to the equally lovely, but tiny, city of Ely in Cambridgeshire [the third smallest city in England]. I'm impulsive and have moved a lot. I was born on 13th January and I've just turned 60 but certainly don't feel it. Here's a photo of me aged 18 months. I've had several jobs over the years, but since returning to work after having my sons I have mainly been involved in telecommunications. I was a telecommunications manager in H.E. for 11 years until I decided that life was too short to be stuck in the same old job and feeling overworked and stressed. I've also been a voice analyst and I looked after the many telephone systems of the Bank of Scotland. I have just retired (November 6th 2011.) I do enjoy being home and being able to have more free time to pursue my hobbies. I have two lovely sons who each have a perfect partner. My eldest is a doctor and registrar orthopaedic surgeon. He's working in the Oxford area. He loves sport, but especially cricket which he plays very well. Here's a photo of him aged three years and one of him as cricket captain aged 15. My younger son is a computer whiz kid living in a Manchester suburb and working for a electronic development and design consultancy. He's been interested in computing since he was 4 years old and is completely self taught. Here's a photo of him aged 5 with his beloved BBC 'B'. He helps run Pepperfish, the hosting service which support these pages, codes little bits of this and that, builds web pages, is interested in colloquy and runs the talker Meta Hills. Here's a more recent photo of him. You'll have gathered by now that I suffer from PMS, no not that kind, the Proud Mother Syndrome kind :-) I have an adorable grandson who was born in February 2011. He is wonderful and as I live two hours away from him we 'skype video' a lot. The wonders of technology. I have two lovely cats, twin identical black sisters which I adopted from the Cat Protection in Ely. I got them on Christmas Eve 2007. Their names are India and Inka. Hobbies and interests? Hmm, well lets see. I'm fond of watching cricket and rugby, the theatre and cinema, collecting replica lighthouses, vampire and scary films, Sci-Fi, good restaurants, small pubs, socialising with friends, photography (although I'm not very good), gravestones (for the history), English village history, social history, reading thrillers and historical novels and my BIG passion of genealogy. I have traced one line of my family tree back to 1595 but the whole process is ongoing and takes up much of my time. I'm very fond of spodding**. Blame my younger son for introducing me to that! You can find some of my photos here You'll need Macromedia Flash to view photo galleries on my website. I love to travel and I've done some, including around the UK which is a beautiful and diverse place. There's been seven trips to various states in the USA and I have also been to the former Yugoslavia (Croatia and Slovenia), Russia (many years ago when it was the USSR during the cold war), Spain (northern and southern), Italy - including one of my favourite cities, Venice, four times, lovely Florence and the coast. I've been to Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, several trips to various parts of France, Malta, The Canary Islands and Ireland. After I retire I plan to visit Australia and New Zealand, Canada, USA (Arizona, Oregon and Illinois), China and Alaska. Some favourite trips have been Salzburg Austria with my younger son and his partner at Christmas 2007 and in February 2009 I had a magical trip with my elder son, his fiancee and guests to Northern Finnish Lapland, 200 miles above the arctic circle, for their magical wedding in an ice chapel and this year (2011) my sons and partners, 8 friends and I rented the huge and beautiful 16th century Palladian villa Saraceno near Venice for my 60th birthday celebration. Fantastic! Off to Krakow in Poland with younger son and his partner in December 2011. I have broadband cable and a mini network at home. My desk PC (Tranquility), my server (Stargate), my laptop (Saturn) and a wireless network. It all works very well with excellent support from my younger son and his partner at Pepperfish. Finally, here are 100 random things about me [friends only] **For the uninformed,
spodding is someone who likes to chat to people on line on talkers.
I belong to quite a few talkers but the main ones I use are Meta
Hills (daily), Scarlet and EUTS (now and then). See here
for more about talkers.
Last updated 28th November 2011 |
