Spotlight Interview #45 - CB_n_Red

[JustAskJulie]

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Gender (if not a couple):
If a couple, which one primarily posts:
Age(s):
Birthday(s):
Location:
Relationship status:
Swinging for how long?:
Prefer to swing with:
Favorite food(s):
Biggest Pet Peeve:
Brief Intro:
Picture:
Website (your own or one of your favorites):

[Vespertine]

hi Guys!

Which one of you approached the other about Swinging?

What's your ideal swing date?

[Alura]

Hi, CB & Red!

We're glad to see y'all in the hot box and look forward to all we'll learn about the two of you.

Where do y'all usually take your holidays? When we lived in Europe we liked Spain a lot but also had a great time on the Isle of Wight one summer.

Have y'all ever visited the U.S.?

Alura

[CB_n_Red]

Thought I might have had time to start on this towards the end of the afternoon at work, but I (CB) ran out of time and Red was at home anyway....

So, the basic questions first:

Question limit: None! The only limitation will be down to the time we can find to answer!

Gender (if not a couple): Married couple.

If a couple, which one primarily posts: CB (male half). Red is about as technophobic as they get when it comes to computers, so while she's happy to read over my shoulder and tell me what to type, getting her to actually type for herself is nearly a non-starter

Age(s): 48 (CB) and 49 (Red)

Birthday(s): I'll do this UK style - 4/7 and 10/9 (That's July and September)

Location: Hull, England

Relationship status: Married for over 25 years, together since November 1976. Still fancy each other like mad.

Swinging for how long?: About a year, though we talked about it for five years before that.

Prefer to swing with: Couples, though we don't exclude singles.

Favorite food(s): Difficult one! There is so much that we like! For CB: Start with the roast beef and Yorkshire pud, move on through Indian, Thai, Chinese, Italian.... You get the idea! For Red: lasagne with salad.

Biggest Pet Peeve: For CB - rudeness for one, and also the modern tendency to use "text speak" in emails (I hate that!). For Red: people who wear too much perfum (as in inflicting their questionable tastes on others).

Brief Intro: We met during an exam in Regensburg, Germany (we were both students there that year). Never looked back. I'm sure there's lots I could add there, but most of it will come out over the next week anyway!

Picture: Look left ;-) Well - that's Red anyway. There's a pic of both of us in our profile here.

Website (your own or one of your favorites): Google (for CB) - it's just so useful. I run a couple of vanilla sites, but I think I'd better not expand on that. For Red, there isn't one!

Okay - there's a start. Bring on the questions!

[Vespertine]

Originally Posted by CB_n_Red

...also the modern tendency to use "text speak" in emails (I hate that!).

What's "text speak"?

This is something I'm unfamiliar with.

[CB_n_Red]

Originally Posted by Vespertine

hi Guys!

Which one of you approached the other about Swinging?

Me (CB). Not sure if the usual comment about the men starting things and the women keeping them going applies to us - we're both pretty keen.

Originally Posted by Vespertine

What's your ideal swing date?

A successful one! Tonight could be good (social meet later on) and we know the weekend will be very good (seeing "the regulars").

Okay, best expand on that. Usually it would involve having a good time socially as well as in the sack. When we see the regulars it's usually over a day or two (sometimes three), with associated nights. Lots of time for talk, good food and general relaxation as well as nookie.

[JustAskJulie]

Do you run websites for a living? If you feel comfortable doing so, could you tell us more about the site you run?

[CB_n_Red]

Originally Posted by Alura

Hi, CB & Red!

We're glad to see y'all in the hot box and look forward to all we'll learn about the two of you.

We nearly ended up here a couple times previously but the time zone differences meant we were late finding messages....

Glad to be in the spotlight now though.

Red's just wandered off to finish getting herself "tarted up" for tonight's meet, so it's just CB finishing off for now.

Originally Posted by Alura

Where do y'all usually take your holidays? When we lived in Europe we liked Spain a lot but also had a great time on the Isle of Wight one summer.

Holidays!? What holdidays? I have my own (small) business (Red helps out a couple of days a week). Somehow we never seem to find the time. Besides, if we're not there, the orders pile up making things pretty tough when we get back to it. We usually take a fortnight off across Christmas and New Year - it's a quiet time for the business.

We've never been to Spain or the Isle of Wight, though it would be good to do so. We did live in Germany for some time in the 70s and we've visited France, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Actually, when we did have time for holidays we would stay within the UK as often as not - frequently Scotland or Wales (we both have ancestor/relatives in both).

[QUOTE=Alura]Have y'all ever visited the U.S.?

Not yet! One day. I (CB) would love to explore some of the AWI and ACW battlefields. Not so sure Red would be so keen to do that - in fact I know she wouldn't!

The nearest I've been to the US would be Conemara (Ireland) back in 1966.

[CB_n_Red]

Originally Posted by Vespertine

What's "text speak"?

This is something I'm unfamiliar with.

Not sure there is an accepted term for it - I'm refering to the abbreviated mangling of English some people use when sending text messages on a mobile (er... cell phone I think is the US term). As a former teacher it grates something rotten!

CB

[CB_n_Red]

Originally Posted by JustAskJulie

Do you run websites for a living? If you feel comfortable doing so, could you tell us more about the site you run?

No, not for a living, though I have thought about that. They are all hobby related, and as such not so far removed from my business. When I was retired from teaching on medical grounds I ended up turning a hobby into a business.

Suffice to say that it's a very narrow and specialised field and saying too much would make us very easy to identify!

It does involve molten pewter.

And rubber.



Hmmm. By the end of the week I might just say "what the hell" and point you all at my business web site! We'll see. We're not as paranoid about being recognised as we once were.

[traceywitney]

Hello CB_n_Red.
I also have a few questions for you if that’s ok?
1. You mentioned that you both have travelled a bit. Which country did you like most and why?
2. Do both of you enjoy reading? If so, what are your favourite genres and authors?
3. What music do you both like?
4. What are your favourite movies?
Thank you in advance,
Maria.

so you were/are an English teacher? what grade level? Does it also bug you when people misspell things, do you just wish you could fix it for them?

[Vespertine]

Originally Posted by CB_n_Red

Not sure there is an accepted term for it - I'm refering to the abbreviated mangling of English some people use when sending text messages on a mobile (er... cell phone I think is the US term). As a former teacher it grates something rotten!

CB

Ah, Okay...

Ew. I don't like it either. I've always figured anyone that used that kind of abbreviated slang was probably under the age of consent. Do grown men and women really use it? There should be some kind of cyber law preventing it.

[CB_n_Red]

Originally Posted by traceywitney

Hello CB_n_Red.
I also have a few questions for you if that’s ok?

Of course!

1. You mentioned that you both have travelled a bit. Which country did you like most and why?

That's a difficult one. There are beautiful parts (and ugly parts) of all countries. On balance (and excluding Yorkshire) we'd have to say Germany, in particular southern Germany - Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The forests, hills and mountains are great places for walking, which we used to do a fair bit of.

2. Do both of you enjoy reading? If so, what are your favourite genres and authors?

We both read voraciously! For me (CB) a mixture of Science Fiction, fantasy, historical fiction and factual history. Just been reading Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, interspersed with a new history of the 8th Army (WW2) by Robin Neillands. I always have a large "to read" pile next to the bed and our house looks more like a library than anything else. Floor to ceiling bookshelves in the living room and our bedroom!

Red reads a mixture of historical fiction and crime/detective novels as a rule. I think she's probably read every Ed McBain book ever written. No doubt she'll add to the list later (I'm on my own in the workshop this morning).

3. What music do you both like?

Another biggie! It might be easier to list what we don't like! Start with renaissance "early music", work through much of the classical repertoire, move on to jazz, blues, swing (of course!), rock and roll, 60s, pomp rock, then skip a bit and hit the 90s indie stuff. Lots to choose from. We never got into punk. It happened in the UK while we were living in Germany. It was a bit of a culture shock coming back to that!

Red really likes Bix Beiderbecke, Glenn Miller and Morcheeba (quite a mixture there). I'm with her on that. We listen to the Stones and Beatles a lot still.

What else? In no particular order: Beethoven, Bach, Bebop Deluxe, Osric Tentacles, Kula Shaker, Free, Frank Zappa, Lynyrd Skynyrd (one of the best live gigs we ever saw!), Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, Tchaikovsky, Kitaro, The Kinks, John Mayall, Cream, ELP, Allman Brothers, Kraftwerk, Deep Purple, Led Zep..... It would get pretty boring to list everything we like

4. What are your favourite movies?

Films?

At the moment the Lord of the Rings trilogy for both of us. We recently saw "I, Robot" and enjoyed it a lot, even though it bore little resemblance to Asimov's work. One less than well known film I (CB) really like is Lifeforce - one of the few British made SF films that came close to what Hollywood can do. Red is very keen on "Gone with the Wind", though I find it far too long! Thinking of that period in history, I was very impressed with "Glory" to the extent that I actually bought a copy (we usually catch films on the box).

We're both into Star Trek and Star Wars.... Okay, a bit sad!

CB

[CB_n_Red]

Originally Posted by smileytattoo

so you were/are an English teacher? what grade level? Does it also bug you when people misspell things, do you just wish you could fix it for them?

No, I taught German and French. That was in an inner city boys comprehensive school (11-16 year olds). Rather hard work! Glad I'm out of it now. Pouring pewter is definitely more satisfying.

Minor misspellings I can live with - it's easy to mis-type something when typing quickly. It's the deliberate or the ignorant errors which have me reaching for the red pen!

CB