Category: Lives

When I opened my eyes, I knew this was more than just an ordinary hangoverI was 16 when I first went to sea. Having joined the merchant navy after school, I got a round-the-world cruise as my first trip – we went to South...

My three ex-wives all found me dull; not in the bedroom, but in every other part of the houseI grew up in Small Heath, Birmingham, known to most as Peaky Blinders territory. I was interested in football and history at school,...

Charles and Camilla came. We made sure they didn’t see the one depicting themMy husband, Keith, and I own 8,450 teapots. It all began in 1983, a couple of years after we married. We were young and setting up a home in Kent. We...

We’d been searching the area for 10 years – the one I found was 1,600 years old. It was a detector’s dreamI go detecting to get out and about. It’s lovely in our beautiful countryside with my friends Mick and Dave. I don’t care...

Bands wanted me for music videos, and I handed out gifts with LiberaceMy career as the Queen’s lookalike might never have come about if I hadn’t come across an advert in the local paper in 1972. Stuck for ideas for my husband...

People look at me and say, ‘She won’t be able to lift that.’ I like surprising themI started powerlifting when I was 65. I worked in real estate in Michigan for about 35 years, and when I retired I decided I wanted to lose a bit...

If I see a discarded list, I grab it and keep it. There’s one with just ‘Milk’ and ‘Lube’; another with just ‘Celery’I started collecting lists around 1997. It was just by chance. I was shopping for my then girlfriend, now...

I’d got through about a third when I felt an excruciating pain under my shoulderAccidents happen to me all the time – I play a lot of sports in Melbourne, where I am finishing a master’s degree and potentially storming towards a...

A woman in Alaska got a whipped cream logo carved on her headstoneIt all started during lockdown. Like many people, I tried baking for the first time and got a TikTok account. Less commonly, I started learning a lot about...

A few well-endowed humans have promised to donate theirs when they dieFor most of my life I’ve been a teacher in Iceland, where I was born. In the 60s, I did a postgraduate degree in Edinburgh, but in the 70s I settled into life...

‘This is it,’ I thought as I started to roll down the canyon, rapidly picking up speedI ended up in South America quite by chance. Having left school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, in 1993, thinking I might like to go into...

You’ve heard me in Paranormal Activity, Free Guy and Scream. We are like stunt people, doing stuff that could damage an actor’s voiceIf I see a bug, I will scream. I’ll shriek when I’m scared or startled. It’s just so natural,...