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 love Terry Pratchett, Historical fiction, stationary and professional wrestling.

I think David attenburgh is a god i even watched his life of plants

I'm obsessed with cryptic crosswords. Not in an endearing 25 minutes on the commute kind of way, but I get obsessed until I have completed that day's puzzle.

I have no idea what # tag means but i think that is because im old rather than square

online jigsaws?!? this could be the answer to my dreams. i miss my jigsaws and have always resisted temptation to buy one but gaze longingly at them every time i see them in shops. ds1 is 3 so they're almost fun to do!

i too would rather stay home to clean and tidy.

• I do Gauss-Jordan elimination in my head during boring meetings
• My party trick is to demonstrate the relativistic equivalence of electricity and magnetism via the Lorentz transform while drunk. I usually get it wrong, but luckily everyone will have nervously backed away by then.
• I have a tattoo of Dungeons and Dragons dice (d20, d12, d8 etc)
• I read SF and fantasy almost exclusively
• I have a subscription to 2000AD
• I know Linux, UNIX and VMS inside-out but have never used Windows
• I am building an Arduino-powered sound sensitive LED lighting matrix for DS's (14mo) bedroom, that will hopefully respond in different ways to claps, shouts, singing etc. Or possibly explode in a shower of sparks. Could go either way at this point.
• I really like making lists

Mal, you sound terrifying.

you all sound really clever im a bit geeky but a bit thick

I think Douglas Adams was the most amazing writer who has ever lived.

I also like books with magic and elves. and anything written by Julia Donaldson.

My favourite band is Good Charlotte.

I love Comic book movies (X-men/Spiderman/Watchmen) but I don't actually read comic books (or graphic novels as DH insists I call them )

I can spend hours playing with Lego.

I find Child Development theories fascinating. Seriously, I am doing a degree in Early Years Education and even the other students on my course think I'm way to into this whole 'early years' thing....

This is an absoloute cracker of a read for anyone who knows the power of a Good List. It's virtually my Bible.

www.jigzone.com for all jigsaw addicts :)

I'm going to do one now, in fact :)

oooo and I have asthma and eczema. I have zero co-ordination and I am terrified of sport and footballs.

Littleprincess - I am obsessed with binding and attachment theory after studying it and bored my poor poor DB with it when my nephew was about half a day old

I love physics. Always have, and can talk for far too long about my job.

Big sci fi and fantasy fan, and like nothing more than a good science documentary.

Omfg I mean bonding not binding.

I do not believe in binding small
Children I promise.

I am a massive geek.

I too love dictionaries and insist on correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.
I love a jigsaw but will only do them by myself. I can't bear anyone interfering by adding pieces.
I love libraries, but only ones at institutions of learning.
I like to make patchwork cushion covers.
I only listen to radio 4 (I am 30)

We have around 3,000 books. Is it nerdy to have them arranged according to the Dewey Decimal System?

I write down the names of the Stobart trucks when I see them in a little book.

The names are just above the wheel arch below the driver's door if any one is interested.

I'm not much of a nerd, I think. Although I did have a pathological love of physics at school.

I am undoubtedly square though. Love jigsaws, lists, anal about housework, detest slang and swearing (read MN through half closed eyes with permanent distaste etched on my face). That may constitute 'prude' more than 'square' though.

I go to church - terribly unfashionable.....
weevilswobble, could we be long lost twins? Songs of Praise and Countryfile - Only a nice cuppa and a fig roll can top that.

I sew and do cross stitch. I love musicals too

Also go church