Biggest Achievement (non cycling)

[ScotiaLass]

Well done!
Not sure what mine would be...raising 5 kids (2 with SN) whilst holding down a career in nursing and then gaining an HND, aged 48.

 

[EltonFrog]

You've missed a maths joke here: it should be the square route of negative feck all: then it would be imaginary.

Brilliant! I can't even achieve telling a gag properly!

 

[Ganymede]

I haven't really made much of my life so far but I suppose that I am pretty happy with a lot of the forum rides that I have organised over the years.

PS Oh, non-cycling! Er, I'll have to think hard to come up with something ...

Organising and admin are not cycling skills, so I think it counts!

I have played Shakespeare's Cleopatra, which was a professional ambition fulfilled. It was on tour and nobody useful saw it (ie casting directors) but I got good notices. And loved it, even when that Alsatian ran onstage in Croydon during the death of Antony (it was an outdoor tour!).

 

[EltonFrog]

Oh Oh wait!

I just thought of something.

Bob Monkhouse once told me I was a witty young man.

Any good?

I thought not.

This thread is not doing my self esteem any good at all.

 

[welsh dragon]

Oh Oh wait!

I just thought of something.

Bob Monkhouse once told me I was a witty young man.

Any good?

I thought not.

This thread is not doing my self esteem any good at all.

But you have a nice avatar hows that?

 

[ScotiaLass]

Oh Oh wait!

I just thought of something.

Bob Monkhouse once told me I was a witty young man.

Any good?

I thought not.

This thread is not doing my self esteem any good at all.

Bob Monkhouse was genius! I'd take that as a great achievement

 

[Profpointy]

Organising and admin are not cycling skills, so I think it counts!

I have played Shakespeare's Cleopatra, which was a professional ambition fulfilled. It was on tour and nobody useful saw it (ie casting directors) but I got good notices. And loved it, even when that Alsatian ran onstage in Croydon during the death of Antony (it was an outdoor tour!).

Must be one of the biggest girls' roles going so definitely one to be proud of

"age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety"

Saw a great outdoor version in Oxford a few years ago.

 

[Ganymede]

Must be one of the biggest girls' roles going so definitely one to be proud of

"age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety"

Saw a great outdoor version in Oxford a few years ago.

It's a fantastic role and quite tricky. She is often played too old - she was only 39 when she died - I was 36 when I played her. I was pleased to get nice comments from none other than Professor Stanley Wells. I'm trying to remember if we played Oxford - I think we might have done but this was in 1999 so it's more than a few years ago!

 

[EltonFrog]

Bob Monkhouse was genius! I'd take that as a great achievement

That he was, and yes I did.

 

[Profpointy]

It's a fantastic role and quite tricky. She is often played too old - she was only 39 when she died - I was 36 when I played her. I was pleased to get nice comments from none other than Professor Stanley Wells. I'm trying to remember if we played Oxford - I think we might have done but this was in 1999 so it's more than a few years ago!

we saw it more recently, so missed your tour-de-force sadly . Are you still a travelling player these days ? If so any gigs in Bristol coming up?

 

[Dave Davenport]

Like others I've lived a pretty unremarkable life (so far, but that's unlikely to change), but me and Mrs D have been together for 37 years and provided a stable, loving home for our kids. I can't think of anything I'd swap that for.

 

[Ganymede]

we saw it more recently, so missed your tour-de-force sadly . Are you still a travelling player these days ? If so any gigs in Bristol coming up?

Kind of you to ask - yes still working though not so much. I'll let CC know when my next thing is but see http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-play-wot-i-am-in.163807/, not sure when yet.

Sorry for the slight thread hijack, @The Jogger. I'm still in awe of your achievement and not sure we've had anyone top it yet!

 

[stephec]

Best thing I've done is to always try and make sure I enjoy myself.

 

[stephec]

Brilliant! I can't even achieve telling a gag properly!

That's class, as long as he definitely said witty.

 

[ArDee]

My biggest achievement thus far is the square route of feck all.

You've missed a maths joke here: it should be the square route of negative feck all: then it would be imaginary.

(biggest achievement might have been getting a place in a mathematics olympiad when I was 16. Sad )

Perhaps the if it was the square root of Feck all or the square root of negative feck all you'd consider it more meaningful.