I wanted to be a nurse as two of my Aunts were nurses.

When the time came I ended up working in the Accounts office of a big paper and packaging company. I was there for 17 years.

I wanted to be a ballet dancer or an ice skater.

As a kid I nearly starved to death. Seriously ! I wanted to have a job, any job, that put me to work in a restaurant.

1st job I had , at age 16, was a busboy. Whenever nobody was looking, I stuffed my face with food.

At age 74, I'm still obsessed with food.

I was a tractor driver before I grew up. My dad had a couple of grey fergies, and the biggest & best, a MF 65.

I wanted my own Ice Cream Van.

Then I wanted to be a drummer but never got beyond the cardboard boxes.

I so wanted to be a policewoman but, in those days, there was a minimum height requirement of 5' 4" which, alas, I never achieved.

I wanted to be a steam Engine Driver.

As a kid, in Withernsea, we could go down to the station and help with the turntable, and, on a lucky day, get a ride out to the water engine water filling station & back.

Beeching removed the trains, and any hope, years later.

A gymnast or an astronaut

Well you will probably think i'm a bit sick, but I have always wanted a job as an Funeral Embalmer or in the Morgue, but my Parents wouldn't let me. I am still very interested in it.

I was spoiled for choice as a youngster as my paternal grandparents ran a pub and also co-owned a pawnbroker/jewellery manufacturer/supplier with grandfather's sister. Whilst becoming interested in jewellery making I became acquainted with a regular customer, a building surveyor. Guess what I left full time education to become? Yes, you've guessed it, a surveyor and then by progressing through the various stages (via Uni etc), I became a civil servant with a department attached to historic and MOD buildings of the public estate. I stayed within state service until I retired at 60. Would I change anything if I could? Only my health which forced me to retire by agreement at 60.

I bet you love ice cream! Who do you think is the best drummer in the world?