More randomness

Feeling totally uninspired this morning, so stole an idea from WUASTC (who, incidentally, stole it from someone else!) and would like to give you some random trivia, about me!

1. What is your all time favourite book, from childhood, as an adult? Jane Eyre, closely followed by Little Women, although I did read Heidi recently and really liked it…
2. All time favourite movie as above? Herbie Goes Bananas, Chitty Chitty Band Bang. Does the Anne of Green Gables TV series count?
3. Favourite type of chocolate, and how much of it do you eat a week? There are moments when I’ll take anything I can get, although if I could have anything it would be Rose Creams, every day for breakfast. Usually there is a Cadbury’s bar somewhere in the fridge for ‘emergencies’…it never lasts more than a few days!
4. Favourite drink, non alcoholic and alcoholic? Banana Nesquik, and Champagne- or indeed Champagne cocktails.
5. Where is your all time best holiday destination? DH and I went to Chile for three weeks. That would be hard to beat. Vietnam was awesome too. And there’s a place in France that always feels like home.
6. Where is your dream holiday destination? The truthful answer is ‘anywhere, as long as I am with DH’. We have plans to go to: Ethiopia to visit my mum, Australia to visit DH brother, New Zealand to visit my godfather and his expanding family and, potentially, Anguilla for a family event. That’s assuming we can move house and go on holiday. In reality, we’ll head down to the MoneyPit and be happy to walk the dog along the beach, eating a flake 99.
7. Which is the best Beatles track of all time? Don’t really do Beatles….Octopus’s Garden.
8. What are you most proud of having achieved? I’m not entirely sure that I’ve achieved anything of note. I just know that if everything that has happened in my life has brought me to this point, then it was worth it.
9. What would you want for your last supper ever? Thai Dumplings from Surin, Kelftiko Lamb from a shack called Chris’ that’s buried deep in a Cypriot Orange Grove (assuming Health and Safety hasn’t arrived and shut him down…), and a perfectly cooked Fondant au Chocolat from the Val D’Or.
10.How old were you when you had your first snog, name of snoggee if you dare? First kiss was Neil Carter, outside the Youth Club in Ay Nik when I was about 9 or 10. He dared me. First proper snog was Gilbert Watson, Catteral Hall, watching a Saturday Night Movie, aged about 12.
11.Do you have an unfulfilled ambition? Who doesn’t?
12.If so what is it? Motherhood
13.What yer gonna do about achieving it? Seriously? We’re doing all we can.
14.Describe the outfit that best describes you as you are. Jeans, white t-shirt and brown cashmere sweater. Cowboy boots that I’ve had for years. I’m not a size zero fashionista. I’m comfortable and practical, and I like being able the dog/play with kids/cook up a stom without worrying about what I am wearing. I do like a few luxuries, hence the cashmere, but they aren’t my priority. I’m loving and loyal.
15.If you were on Desert Island Discs which one piece of music would you want to keep? Midnight Train to Georgia, Gladys Knight and the Pips.
16. And what would the luxury item be, as in no use at all, on a desert island? My dog.
17. Outside of your partner, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Beyonce Knowles, J-lo who do you fantasise about? Nigel Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West’s son, came to my school in sixth form. He told the story of a long train journey with Virginia Woolf in which she kept him-a child at the time-enchanted with tales woven about other peple travelling on the train. I loved that idea, and have been doing it ever since.
18.Describe the contents of your purse/wallet, ie receipts/ bus tickets/ plastic you never use/ and if you’re lucky enough, money. I always complained that my mother’s handbag was a Pandora’s Box of chaos and fluff, and was determined that I would never be like that. Fast forward twenty years, and I’m getting there. My wallet contains: numerous bus tickets and receipts, fluff, foreign coins, driving licence, photos, credit cards, debit cards, loyalty cards, prepay cards, voucher cards…and very little actual money.
19.Outside of the family what item would you save from the inferno? Assuming the dog was safe, I’d get photos. It was the one thing that my mum took when she was evacuated years ago, from Albania. It’s what I’d take-they are irreplacable.
20.How much would you like me to stop now?

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