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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 have now moved to the equally lovely, but tiny, city of Ely in Cambridgeshire [the third smallest city in England]. I'm impulsive and move a lot :-) I was born on 13th January and I'm *mumble, mumble* years of age. Here's a photo of me aged 18 months. I have 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. At the moment I'm unemployed after my temporary contract with BT ended, and I'm actively looking for a job, but I do enjoy being home and being able to have more free time to pursue my hobbies. I have two lovely sons. 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 at 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 :-) There's more photos of my boys here. I also 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, eating and drinking, small pubs, socialising with friends, photography (although I'm not very good), gravestones for the history, English village history, reading thrillers and historical (and hysterical) novels, ancestry (I have traced one line of my family tree back to 1595), and I'm very fond of spodding**. Blame my younger son for introducing me to that! You can find some of my photos here and 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. As well as seven trips to various states in the USA I have also been to the former Yugoslavia, 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, three times, lovely Florence and the coast. I've also 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, China, Alaska, the Artic Circle and Scandanavia and other far flung places. My last trips were in September 2007, when I went to Seville Spain to stay with friends, and to Salzburg Austria with my son and his partner just before Christmas 2007. I have broadband cable and a mini network at home. My desk PC (Tranquility), my server (Stargate), my laptop (Serenity) and a wireless network. It all works very well with excellent support from my 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 18th April 2008 |
