A little about yourself

[Taf]

Nickname: Taf
Real Name: Graham
Age: 49 going on 21
Home: Cardiff Wales UK
Status: Married, boy/girl twins aged 13
Drives: 10 year-old Skoda Felicia Bohemia 1.3 estate
Career so far: Royal Air Force Technician travelled the globe, Home Office Radio Engineer for Emergency Services Radio in Wales, Carer to our handicapped twins for several years now
Likes: Curry, chilli, gardening, calm, beer, DIY
Dislikes: Smelly cheese, noisy neighbours
PC skill: Good to advanced in several fields





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[Lisa]

Online Nickname: mrselnombre
Real Name: lisa
Age: 29.... act about 6 according to hubby
Home: trealaw Wales UK
Status: Married, stepson 11, daughter 10, son 5
Drives: Hubby up the wall
Career so far: Mum, web mistress and NUTTA!!
Likes: Food, books and surfing the webby
Dislikes: Feet, smelly things, and fools
PC skill: Does a mean copy and paste.

[Izzy]

Nickname: Iza or MASTER (to hubby)
Real Name: Irene
Age: 21
Home: New Zealand
Status: Married, 3 cats - 2 girls one boy
Drives: Red 1994 Honda Integra (wish it was either a Holden or a BMW)
Career so far: Librarian, Hamburger Cook, Delicatessen Assistant, Checkout Operator, Student, Bank Officer, WIFEY!
Likes: Twaddling, PSP (tag making), spending time with Hubby and my babies (cats)
Dislikes: People, anything that requires energy
PC skill: Meh - have my moments

[sabell]

Nickname: Don't really have one
Real name: Sarah
Age: 36
Home: Norwich, Norfolk
Status: Single most of time
Drives: Currently learning, nearly there!!!
Career so far: Only ever been a nurse, won't be forever tho. Currently a Health Promotion Nurse in community
Likes: Decent curry, Marks & Spencers biscuits, peace & quiet, India, my friends, lager & vodka, Chunky Kit Kats, Borders book shop, clothes shopping, cheese
Dislikes: pusy wounds, Olives, Frogs and slugs, library fines, feta cheese
PC skill: I get by

[Langston]

Nicknames: Langston, Fred
Real name: John
Age: 42
Home: Central Bristol
Status: Mad
Career: Light Engineering, Car Park Attendant, Admin stuff,
Likes: People, Music, Poetry, Solitude, Using my PC, Photography etc..
Dislikes: Violence, Most food, Tidyness, Conservatives, Communists, Drunks
PC Skill: I cope most of the time

[fred]

Nicknames:fred  (Share one there Langston)
Real name: Answered to fred for 35 years
Age: 46
Home: Gogledd Cymru
Status: kindly classed as insane (single)
Drives: Vectra CDTI 150
Career:in no perticular order:  paper round, account clerk, shop floor wroker, bus conductor, clerk, Teacher, Garage fitter, Bus/coach driver (still current license), VAT clerk, driving instructor, madman.  The full time one is Teacher.

Likes: Music, classical or a proper language, walking,canoeing (kayaking for US  BCU 4* inland and sea), peace and quiet. common sense

 Dislikes: Violence, spongers, crowds
PC Skill: I learn what I need to.

[Mike]

Nickname:Sometimes golfer
Real Name: Mike, Michael to my Mum
Age: 49 don't feel anything like it
Home: Coventry
Status: Single and fancy free
Drives: Punto, plenty of room for the Golf clubs
Career so far: Radiographer 24 years in Trauma and Orthopeadics, now in a Cardiac Cathheter Lab
Likes: Golf, Travelling, Good Food and Drink
Dislikes: Drunks, noisy neigbour (same thing), Bad drivers
PC skill: Good self taught

[kriskd]

Nickname: Kissy
Real Name: Kris
Age: 34
Home: Wisconsin, USA
Status: Happily married with 4 cats
Drives: 1995 Geo Prizm and love it!
Careers so far: Shelved books at the library, maid, front desk clerk, retail store clerk, secretary, accountant
Likes: Being a leader
Dislikes: Communication break down with hubby
PC skills: Web/Internet/HTML/CSS and Microsoft products are my strengths -- all self-taught
Photo: They have floated around here in the past

[Anna]

Nickname: Anna
Real Name: Anna
Age: 28
Home: Cannock, Staffs, UK
Status: Married with 5 year old daughter
Drives: X Reg Astra Hatch 1.4, V Reg Astra LS Estate 2.0Di
Career so far: Worked in a Market Stall selling electrical items, Trained Habadasher'er (sold buttons to old people), Mechanical Maintenance Engineer, Customer Service Assistant, Mother.
Likes: Sleeping, Chinese Food, Wine (White), Holidays, Spending hubbys hard earned cash, Chilling out.
Dislikes: Annoyingly thick people that ask stupid questions, Customers, General Public, My child being poorly, Having lack of sleep, Hubby being an A-hole cos he is tired.
PC skill: I can type Other skills not needed ... thats what hubby 'computer engineer' is for   I get by but bug Lisa constantly with silly 'help me' questions.

[The Beam]

Nickname: beam, beams, buhdda
Real Name: Gary
Age: 41
Home: Fairview Park, Ohio (just outside of Cleveland)
Status: Married with 14 yr old son and 11 year old daughter
Drives: 1999 Plymouth Voyager, 2005 Chevy Malibu (only when Pam lets me)
Career so far:Have worked in the mortgage industry for over 20 years, everything from customer service, asst. Underwriter, Escrow Officer.  Am currently part of the IT dept for a medium sized mortgage company
Likes: watching my kids grow up, movies, reading, going out with my wife and our friends
Dislikes:idiots, slow drivers in front of me, seafood
PC skill: fair

[Bindy]

Nickname: bindy
Real Name: Belinda
Age: 23
Home: Townsville, Australia
Status: Long term relationship, 1 daughter(20mths)
Drives: 1985 Toyota Corona
Career so far:finished High School, certificate in Animal Care, Full time Mum(cleaner, washer,dryer,cook,teacher,etc )
Likes: gardening, cooking, arts & crafts, Freebies, internet
Dislikes: slow computers arghhhhh
PC skill: self taught mostly, pretty good though.

[Loobyloo]

Nickname: Loobyloo/prawn
Real Name: Dawn
Age: 35
Home: Bradford England
Status: Married, 16 year old daughter, and 3 boys 9,3 and 11 weeks
Drives: Mothercare citilite pushchair in scarlet
Career: Market stall, burger packer, waitress,cheese packer,cleaner,currently on matenity leave
Likes: Rock music,voda, John smiths smooth, Sunny days and warm evenings
Dislikes:spiders,mushrooms,Ertha Kitt and Dance music
PC Skill:Dont have any

[Brains]

Nickname: Brains, Cloudedbrains or Wheezer
Real Name: Donna
Age: 30
Home: North Staffordshire
Status: Divorced
Drives: Can't afford a car
Career so far: Not allowed to work now due to Brittle Asthma type 1 - Steroid dependent amongst other health issues (also act as carer to mum) but have worked as: cleaner, paper girl, sewing machinist, caterer, bar staff
Likes: Breathing and honest straight forward people
Dislikes: Two-faced, bone idle people
PC skill: Taught myself and am adequately sufficient to do most things

[Pegasus]

Nickname: Pegasus, Peg, Pockets (Always got something in them!)
Real Name: Pete
Age: 50
Home: Muddy Waters, Lancashire, England (any old CB'er will now where that Is!)
Status: Divorced!
Drives: Shanks Pony! (Not very well anymore due to My constant companion A. Ritis)
Career: Plater/Welder, Fabricator/Welder, Foot Soldier (Para's, ergo My Username!), Amatuer Genealogist (some think I'm a Pro!) , Bingo Caller, et al
Likes: Cooking, Classical Music (Tchaikovsky & Hugo Des Fugge), Natural Food (No 'E' additives, Chemicals or anything described as 'Modified'), Pop Music (mostly pre1980's) that You can Actually Understand!
Dislikes: Liars, Theives, Cheats, Conmen (Inc: 99.9% of Politicians & 99.999% of Telesales People), Answering the Phone (I'm going Deaf!) , Any Music that Is too Loud (Except Classical!), Cold Weather, Hot Weather, Sleeping (There's Just Not Enough Hours in the Day!)
PC Skill: Not bad! (If I have any problem I can't sort out I Now a Man that Can!

[Leonidas]

Nickname:  Leonidas  (favourite film is the 300 Spartans Lead by King Leonidas III), also Sid (Just because)
Real Name:  Jeff
Age : 47 (going on 5)
Home : Same As Peg
Status:  Am Now and have always been and will always be Single / Unattached
Drives:  many people to distraction, or into fits of giggles (also Full Clean DOT Car)

Career(s): Mostly Unemployed (indispersed with :  College For Automotive Engineering, also Training Courses,  College and UNI on a number of Computers Courses), Work in Holiday Camp Management, a few days of Double Glazing  Sales, Cross County Sandwich Sales, Cab Driver, Internal Computer Help Line Operator in a Major Insurance Company, Computer Maintainence Engineer: Currently Home Carer.

Likes: Watching TV (comedy, SCI-FI, Factual, Cartoons),  Computers, Brevity
Dislikes: Gardening, Long Winded explanations when short Concise would do, Politicians, Most Foreign Countries (not necessarily the people there or that are from their), Winging, people who can not manage money (who generally waste it when they have not got it) Bloatware / Microsoft.

PC Skills:  Not really for me to say is it (but I build and maintain my computers and advise on computer problems for Family and friends{for free})