Come and fess up to the ways in which you are really square/bit of a nerd

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I love a nice big jigsaw, me. Preferably something like a thatched cottage surrounded by flowers.

I am too embarrassed to do them at home because my 80 year old mother and inlaws who are in their 70s share my enthusiasm and I just think if any of my uber-cool London creative/media-type mates came calling and saw a bugger like that on my dining table they would think I was a very sad case and immediately drop me.

I like this thread. I cross stitch, quilt and wear a vest in the winter months. DH and I are B5 a holics (even have the feature length episode DVDs). I love a good spreadsheet, adore Radio 4, and I work in a science library (bliss). And I like jigsaw puzzles. I love country music and Wagner.
Because of my former job, I have an obsessive interest in wheelie bins and litter bins, photographing them on holiday (including our honeymoon)and once spent a day on holiday touring the local landfill site.The guy who took me round understood completely and admitted that he too had done this while travelling abroad. If walking down a street, I am known to comment on the make, model and year of a bin, much to the bemusement of my nearest and dearest.

carve133 Love Anne of Green Gables!!

SiFi/Fantasy reader - cann't sleep now without LotR audio book playing - dc's have become similarly addicted
Used to do Archery and fencing because of above
Ran school dungeons and dragons club
Knit and sew felt thingies to excess - am now also starting to crochet things
Obsessive about 'information', have to research things to the nth degree.
Love maths, science, genetics at the moment in particular as have a child with a Aspergers and see its play through out my family.

I spend a lot of time online coding. HTML, PHP, CSS etc. I do it for fun, not profit.

I belong to the Wholock fandom (fans of Doctor Who and Sherlock).

I love nothing more than a good book and a mug of coffee.

Oh my, I've fallen in love with you all!

Bonkers outdoor clothes shops do that to me too!*

Scuttle I want your job! How do you get to be a science librarian? When I was a teenager my Saturday job was as an assistant in a library. My private collection of books is now ordered in Dewey decimal system or author/chronological for fiction, I get twitchy if a book is in the wrong place!

Punctuation. Punctuation? Punctuation!

Scuttlebutter-

Am intrigued....Just what was your former job?

Oh LeQueen, I get DD to sleep by going through all the monarchs backwards with an interesting fact about each.
Queen Anne - needed special coffin sort of thing.
If we've got to Edward the Confessor and she still isn't asleep I know we're in trouble.

Festivalwidow

My Ladybird Book of Kings and Queens is the best resource for learning all of them!

Musicals
Glee
historical biographies
documentaries on BBC4

I could go on...........

I love this thread.

I love Jigsaws. Not keen on photo ones. Love the Thomas Kinkade ones , especially snowy ones, and have quite a few of the Wasgijs. They have to have at least 1000 pieces, and they live in the portapuzzle under the settee

Stranded I'm love Physics too, particularly the nuclear stuff, did dissertation on Chernobyl disaster.

Just looking to see what else I do that other do :)
Radio 3 -yes
Arranging crayons,felt tips etc by colour - yes
Sci-fi books/films/series - Stargate SG1 is the current favourite, Dh recently bought the box set of Babylon5,
Puzzles, especially Kakuro, Killer Suduko etc (bored with basic suduko) and basically anything that involves numbers and/or logical deduction.
Cross-stitch, more cross stitch, especially big stuff like Dimension/Gold that takes forever to do. Unfortunately I never get round to framing and displaying completed stuff. Willsingforcake - stockings are my next project too, once i finish my Mr Men alphabet

For my Christmas I got a necklace that spells my name. Using amino acids. Outgeek that.

I was a chartered waste manager with specialist qualifications in hazardous waste transfer. Local authority waste management, street cleansing and environmental enforcement. Spent many happy years working on landfill sites and managing recycling. Have visited a number of wheelie bin factories (proud emoticon) and can tell many happy tales of trips to Scandinavia to look at waste transfer stations. I met my husband on a compost heap (literally).

Working in the library is considerably less stressful, but I like stroking books on slopes, landfill engineering, gas turbine management as it reminds me of old times...

Oh Scuttlebutter

What an amazing wonderful job! What an impact you must have made upon the planet.

Am a highly skilled (blowing own trumpet emoticon needed) compost heap builder and leaf mould creator both in my garden, allotment and have taught many friends how to do this so highly envious of your experiences. Would love to see pics

i forgot tudor history and the Lonndon underground.

crystalqueen that sounds fab, like this?

I was used to being a sad geeky loner... Now I have something like a community, how terrifying! wonderful!

Is there room for one more geek?

I have been known to read books on social and economic history.....just for fun.

I like to crotchet, I like jigsaws. I love watching TV programmes about engineering and building bridges, and skyscrapers. Oh, and university challenge.

I am a nerd and proud to be so.

Geeks and nerds are cool. It's cool to be clever. Especially a clever woman.

Can I throw into the general index of geekery an interest (fanatical or otherwise) in the Marlowe novels of Antonia Forest? At Christmas I found a copy of 'The Attic Term' in a charity shop for 80p. More than anything else, that really made my year

And my geeky delight was complete when the Mastermind contestant last week picked Forest's novels as her specialist subject

Yes Snapespeare that's the place I got my necklace from. Luckily my name has no J or O.
I was the reserve member on a University Challenge team, but our team wasn't picked to be on the program that year .

Not really, though I do check spelling, grammar and style for a living.

I think my dd is though, she pores over her solar system book and draws endless pictures of tectonic plates. And she squealed with delight when her new music theory book arrived.

crystal they're lovely! bet it's gorgeous! :)

I got exceedingly excited today because DH told me there is a musical of Swallows and Amazons! :o

I have to do a maths test in an hour, I'm really looking forward to it.

Question for you clever grammar nerds :o

Where can I go to improve my grammar? Can you recommend a book please? Thanks

Have just been out walking the dog and every now and again I would snort with laughter all to myself at Scuttle and her wheelie bin obsession.

Wow you so win LOVE you casual references to bin make and models.

oh me too...
I love crossstitch / tapestry, but can't knit.
Complete Harry Potter fan,
I love ziplock bags but got to be the proper ones with zips, not press together.
But my really secret is, I have a thing for Sharpie pens
I have a secret stash, in many colours, that my boys would like to liberate but would do so on pain of death