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

[baubleybobbityhat]

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.

[JayVazzle]

Redruby- we have a winner

[ImpOfThePerverse]

Jigsaws - love them. I'll also quite happily play solitaire, minesweeper and mah-jong on the computer when the internet stops working.
I really enjoyed some of the maths in a recent OU course, I discovered I find factorising strangely satisfying.
I'm sure there are loads more, I have many nerdy tendencies.

[timetosmile]

I also wear a vest in the winter and tuck it snugly into my high-rise jeans
And am obsessive about shutting curtains at dusk 'to keep the heat in'

[MotherAbigail]

I like a nice glass of sherry and reading about the Tudors (if I can do both things together. so much the bettter. I excitedly spent 4 hours in the Tower of London saying things like 'ooh, this is where they put Anne Bolyen!' as though it was some glamorous tour of Hollywood

[PersonalClown]

You know that everyone is supposed to have a Doppelgänger??
It's either that or me and TastesLikePanda are channelling each other.

I'm slightly more skatey/alternative/rock looking and am permanently plugged in an iPod. I do love a good musical. Although I am indulging in cheesy 80's and early 90's right now.
Love Shack anyone??

[SnapesDoxy]

I enjoy many dirty fantasies about our lovely Professer Snape.

I have watched all Buffy, all Game of Thrones, all Stargate (SG1, Atlantis and Universe), all Firefly and many other Sci-Fi series. I also read demons, princess, knights and magic type books.

I love showtunes as well as heavy metal. I dress as a goth when away from my job.

I am training to be a teacher because I love my subject and want to stay in it and inspire children in my dreams to become great scholars.

I am a fat ginger nerd girl and so all the nerds love me, enabling me to have been a massive slut for many years before I met lovely DP (who is also a massive nerd)

[baubleybobbityhat]

Oooh Remus, have you got a favourite book about Shackleton? I really want to read the story but I know there have been many published. Do you have an opinion on the best?

[MrsChemist]

Dawndonna, I aspire to have my books ordered using the Dewey decimal system. It would take too long to sort though.

Hmmm....
I studied computing at uni (not very successfully, though I can read java and C++)

I enjoy role playing games and board games.

I have more than one World of Warcraft t-shirt.

I still have braces.

I love a good sci-fi B movie.

I used to collect manga novels (expensive hobby though at £6 a book)

I have the characters from Final Fantasy VII lovingly adorning my shelves, joined by Marcus Fenix (Gears of War) Domo-kun, Optimus Spud and the Force FX Mace Windu light sabre.

[baubleybobbityhat]

I'm wondering if redrubyshoes and her Stobart trucks is out-nerding everyone else on the thread so far?

[NorksAreMessy]

I went to a Star Trek convention and met Gates McFadden and Michael Dorn.

But my books are arranged by colour

[ChitChatInChaos]

I do cross stitch, tapestry and I knit.

I also love jigsaws and SciFi/Fantasy

Do I score a trifecta???!!!

[TalcAndTurnips]

bibbity - my DH recommends South, by the man himself.

He read it on his way to South Georgia, the lucky bastard

[AfternoonNap]

Redruby certainly gets my vote :)

[KurriKurri]

I love detective stories, and have read hundreds of them (I like looking for old ones in charity/second hand book shops)

Redrubyshoes - I have just shouted to DH 'you are not the only person who is obsessed with the names on Stobart trucks' - He has got me joining in, if he is driving and concentrating, I have to look for the name.

[Dawndonna]

Oops!

[timetosmile]

We need to know if redrubyshoes wears vests.
And redrubyshoes sounds quite glam.
If she was sensiblelowheeledredrubyshoes that would clinch it.

[pjani]

I like word games, and board games, and card games.

I like reading, and am really into politics and economics and demographics (I like reading immigration statistics every now and then - demographics is destiny!)

I had braces. I change into pyjamas as soon as I get home from work.

Am feeling nice and comfy in this thread!

[hormonalmum]

I too am bit obsessed with Eddie Stobart, although I do not write them down in a book...
redrubyshoes - did you know there is a Eddie Stobart fan club?

[MotherAbigail]

LeQueen, it's great isn't it? I have a very endearing habit of shouting at the telly to correct historical inaccuracies and explaining the bloodlines to my oh-so--interested DH ('Oh, do you see her there, she was Henry's mistress, while he was married to so-and-so, she was married to whodyamacallit, who was the Duke of somewhere'). Better than Eastenders any day

[brighthair]

I read obsessively, and kept a book diary for a year and read 366
I am a fan of a cup of tea, a bath and the new Lakeland catalogue

[Theas18]

I knit obsessively and without formal patterns often, almost exclusively seamless too.

I can do cross stitch and embroidery very nicely but the kids have stollen my concentration for fine counted work. Tapestry bores me now.

I listen to radio 4 and radio 7 (it will never be "radio 4 extra" to me really).

Bloody love music in the Anglican Choral tradition.

(But I'm also a paid up apple addict and aldi shopper, where the hell do I fit socially LOL)

[ariadneoliver]

Thanks for that link Lollipop. That'll be hours of my life gone...