5 Fun Facts About @c0ff33a

in #fivefacts6 years ago

5 Fun Facts

While I was ploughing through another early hours of the morning session of commenting on Steemit posts, I noticed @enginewitty had tagged me in a post - this one https://steemit.com/fivefacts/@enginewitty/5-fun-facts-about-enginewitty and the tag was a nomination to continue this chain post idea. It seems he was nominated by @saffisara someone else on Steemit I have encountered many times throughout my time - so many familiar names are in #thealliance it seems like the group has soaked up all the great content creators I lost track of. Anyway, enough rambling let's get on with the FACTS

Some people have said I used to be quite handsome when I was young, so I don't exactly know what went wrong since then. This was taken a ridiculously long time ago, evidently the years since then have not been too kind to me.



Back in 2009 I was the best man at a school friends wedding, I am not Scottish but his family bloodline is, so I got to wear a fetching kilt. He also has lived in Boston, massachusetts for many years since we left University so I got to spend a week in the Wonderful city.


I have been snowboarding since my teenage years, when I started it was still relatively new and developing. I can ski as well because I learned that first but always struggled to reach the skill level required for deep off piste snow - so I moved onto snowboarding because they just float over the powder like surfing!

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For the first 10 years of my life I was brought up on a Farm, and some of my relatives on my mum's side still still work on farms. It was quite isolated so outside of school I did not see any other Children which meant I spent most of my time occupying myself outdoors. I still to this day prefer my own company, somehow the desire to socialise with people just never developed in me, I did learn to force myself to interact with people but being honest I'm not a people person. I don't have any old pictures of me to hand, so you can enjoy my youngest boy practicing milking a cow at Blackpool Zoo in the Farm Zone a few years back.

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I have two boys, and they make an odd pair because the youngest is 7 and the eldest is 20! You could make a comedy duo out of this little and large pairing, this picture is taken from my youngest's School Christmas Fair last December - the snowman is their mum! She spent the whole afternoon having pictures taken with the various school children, plus it was really hot inside the outfit.

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And there you have five facts about me you probably did not know. Now for the hard part, because I have to tag three #thelliance members to do their own 5 Fun Facts posts. My first choice is @atmemestable because she has been doing some amazing (and mouthwatering) food posts and I am sure she will have some fun facts to share. My second choice is @burkulese who is currently travelling and sharing amazing pictures of his journey - I bet he has some very interesting facts to share. Finally a new member, @mr-neil who seems to share a surprising amount in common with me - I'm intrigued to learn a little more about him.

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I like your blog
Good job

Thank you very much, you are too kind.

That kid is about to cry. He must be nervous from how big the cow is.

Actually he always pulls that face when I want to take a photo of him!

Oh man! That was great! I have to ask about the wedding, did they have the bagpipes and all playing and all as they did the dancing and what not? Bet it was a blast. I hear them Scotts can put away some alcohol.

Oh yes BagPipes the works, and a free bar. Which was exclusively drained by myself - pretty much the whole of the brides side do not drink alcohol - in fact I was surprised to find areas of Boston are totally alcohol free. I was also surprised to get asked for ID everywhere I went!

Great to learn a bit about you cool to read, I to am generally not to much of a people person, and LOL at your boys face by the cow

tip!

I had a few shots of him looking away, believe it or not that is his "Smile for the camera face". He was just 4 then I believe.

Our grand daughter has a funny face she always pulls when told to smile 😊

Those a great facts about yourself... !!!! I love learning about the people I connect with on Steemit! much love!

Thank you, it's a interesting way of learning more about everyone the in the #thealliance

Challenge accepted. Expect fun and surprises.

Thank you, I'm a bit behind but did thoroughly enjoy yours - well done.

Very great to know more about you @c0ff33a. Intersting facts.

Thank you my friend, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.

A little more leg on that fetching kilt!

I love kilts. My kids have Scottish in the and one wears a kilt. It's a babe magnet. LOL

I love your son! He is so adorable and so much a mini-me. The picture with the cow. Priceless.

Fab five Do more! ;) Tip!

Thank you very much, I should look up the photo taken after the speeches - there were four us British at the wedding in Kilts - we lined up in front of everyone - turned away from them and bent over lifting the kilts to reveal Union Jack boxer Shorts - 🇬🇧 I was expecting to get lynched but the people of Boston it seems have a good sense of Humour.

Hahaha! Yes! That would have been hilarious! We have all forgotten about the Boston Tea Party. Not my fight and all. We came over on the slow boat after the Mayflower.

Besides, I am pretty much a pacifist and Greenpeacer. Oh, my! But, I tuned in my card when I became respectable.

Dig up that picture! I love to laugh! :)

Great Post!!

Just kidding lol. That picture of you as a child is so unmistakably you, I think it could only be mistaken as someone else by a blind person. I have a feeling you may have dug the kilt pic out before when Dale was vlogging all those years ago, very fetching and it should get you a few wolf whistles from the ladies. The snowboarding I ofcourse knew about due to all that video footage you gave us that year, though I have missed last years epic footage, unless you gave it a year out. That one of your son doing the milking seems as though he was a little upset at something he found udder the cow oops typo I mean under lol, or was the pic just tkaen at that very moment that just happens every now and then where you wish the photographer was a bit better with his timing. Not sure I've seen your eldest before, he looks very dashing in his seasonal sweater there, and I have still to see a pic of your wife without fancy dress lol. An enjoyable post buddy, and well curated :)

Thank you very much Bob, look at you diving in to remind me I haven't been and watched


I had some even better pictures of me in a Kilt but I think they got lost when a hard drive borked - that's @techreality you can hear sniggering in the background.
I have skipped a few years snowboarding now, like you just no time too much going on. Everyone says he looks upset - at that age (he was 4 I think) he did that face whenever you tried to photograph him - he wasn't upset it was his best photo grin! I don't get to share many photo's of the eldest, he's a bit accident prone and always strapped up for something - slipped a few weeks ago at a country park and fractured a bone in his wrist so that's all cast up right now! My other half like yours is very camera shy, maybe one day though lol. Thanks for dropping by, take a leaf at of Gordon's book and through something on here now and again.

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Ah you know what it's like for time. Now that I am back working (thank you lord) I am too busy and or tired to do anything on a night. Last night was a 7 o clock finish due to me frying someones central heating controller due to finding a loose wire that was live and then somehow managed to earth it against a copper pipe that I had just finished installing a new 3 way valve to. Oh well a new control panel to fit next week.

OMG you are harder to spot than Elvis around here!

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