• 1)I have crushes on Hugh Grant, Hugh Laurie, and Colin Firth, and Alan Rickman.
  • 2)My favourite part of Christmas is helping Santa find interesting things for my kids' stockings
  • 3)I like condensed milk, especially on rhubarb crumble
  • 4)I bank online
  • 5)My favourite part of Easter is helping the Easter Bunny hide the eggs for the egg hunt
  • 6)I painted my toe nails for the first time two years ago
  • 7)My ideal winter evening is spent snuggled up on the sofa by the fire with the dog and/or cat and/or husband and some knitting - if hot chocolate and hob nobs make an appearance, even better!
  • 8)I prefer hosting parties over attending them. I enjoy oganising them
  • 9)I attended the dress rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics
  • 10)I enjoy being alone in the house
  • 11)I enjoy designing things, but I tend to lose interest once I have discovered whether the idea will work or not
  • 12)When I eat a jaffa cake, I eat all round the edge, and then the orangy bit in the middle
  • 13)When I eat a satsuma, I try to remove the peel all in one piece
  • 14)When I eat a meal, I save my favourite things til last
  • 15)I only like carrots cut lengthwise
  • 16)I do not have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • 17)I still have all my own teeth
  • 18)I have astigmatism, and need one pair of glasses for using the computer and another for driving
  • 19)I had my colours done and I am a "Winter"
  • 20)I enjoy gardening for about 10 minutes each spring - long enough to prune the roses and plant a few annuals
  • 21)I do not enjoy eating outside
  • 22)I would like to write a book like Harry Potter
  • 23)I alternate between thinking I deserve to be able to eat what I like and thinking that I deserve to be fit and healthy
  • 24)I believe "handsome is as handsome does"
  • 25)I like using cliches, old adages, proverbs etc because they fit the situation just right, everyone knows what you mean, and why reinvent the wheel?
  • 26)I love Marmite, hate Vegemite
  • 27)I prefer to cook meals from scratch, but they musn't take longer than 20 minutes to prepare
  • 28)I think organised religion has a lot to answer for, and I think Jesus would be horrified at the way things have turned out, if he was around today
  • 29)I am very untidy, but I enjoy a good sort out once in a while.
  • 30)I am quite good about keeping my wardobe purged though
  • 31)One of my problems is that if I put things, like bills away, I simply forget about them and they don't get dealt with
  • 32)I rarely remember to take my library books back on time
  • 33)The more time I have available the less I get done
  • 34)I hate not having a job
  • 35)Meerkats are my favourite animal
  • 36)I have another recurring dream about trying to use the phone, but the numbers I need are missing, or I can't hit them in the right order
  • 37)I still have not worked out how to put on a dark T shirt without getting white deodorant marks on it and it really annoys me
  • 38)I have never been stopped by the police for speeding or anything else
  • 39)I keep stuff in the refrigerator until it actually has mold on it - then I can be absolutely sure I am not throwing anything that is still good away
  • 40)I really like anchovies
  • 41)I love "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins
  • 42)I am not good with houseplants
  • 43)I have naturally curly hair, which of course I always wanted to be straight
  • 44)I cannot do mental arithmetic, even though Maths was my best subject at school
  • 45)I hope I never get "set in my ways"
  • 46)It was an honour and a priviledge to be chosen to accompany my sister when she had her caesarian, and be one of the first to greet baby Mia into the world
  • 47)I don't mind public speaking
  • 48)I have no desire to sky dive, hang glide or ride in a hot air balloon
  • 49)I enjoy travelling by train, plane or automobile
  • 50)I prefer soy(a) milk on my breakfast cereal
  • 51)I am prone to innappropriate giggling fits and have had to leave the room to get a grip more than once. Once in a posh restaurant I had to pretend I had dropped my napkin so I could hide under the table until the extremely camp waiter had finished explaining the menu. He was hilarious, but apparently I was the only one who thought so
  • 52)I cannot get used to Americans calling a "chaise longue" a "chaise lounge" or Lego "Legos"
  • 53)I think the only way the world will ever unite is if we are attacked by aliens from outer space
  • 54)I have not been to New York yet
  • 55)I don't like computer games except for Roller Coaster Tycoon
  • 56)I don't like it when people put loads of milk on their cereal and then leave it in the bowl
  • 57)I have never ridden on a motorbike
  • 58)I didn't learn to ride a bike until I was 9
  • 59)I have been snow-mobiling and enjoyed it
  • 60)I have never ridden a horse, but have been on donkey rides
  • 61)Another recurring dream I have is about aeroplanes. Sometimes I see them falling out of the sky, and sometimes I am on the plane, but it is flying close to the ground, or in a tunnel or somewhere else impossible
  • 62)I enjoy watching skilled experts at work - it doesn't matter what they are doing - could be Olympic Gold Medal gymnasts, could be brick layers, anything
  • 63)I can't/won't wear high heels
  • 64)I love reading self-improvement books
  • 65)I enjoy making lists
  • 66)I have lived in five different countries
  • 67)I have visited ten others.
  • 68)I would like to visit Australia and Hong Kong
  • 69)When I was little my Grandma knitted me a new royal blue cardigan each year, by my request
  • 70)I have been to the magistrates court twice, once as a witness in a road traffic accident case, and once to apply for a temporary liquor licence for a PTA event
  • 71)I sat opposite Brian Blessed on the train once. A fan came over and asked for his autograph and accidentally spilled coca cola over his feet. He told me it happened to him all the time!
  • 72)I must have the cutlery handles up in the dishwasher
  • 73)I like towels to be folded neatly on the rail
  • 74)But I don't have all my food arranged in alphabetical order in the pantry
  • 75)So I really don't have OCD
  • 76)The first I heard about Princess Diana dying was Lucy arriving back from her paper round shouting "Guess who's dead now!"
  • 77)The first I heard about 9/11 was when Carolinne called from New Hampshire to tell us a plane had crashed into the WTC
  • 78)I was a Brownie, but never a Guide (or Girl Scout)
  • 79)I have never been a bridesmaid
  • 80)I once auditioned for Countdown, but wasn't chosen
  • 81)I was a school governor for four years
  • 82)I agree with Carolinne about hot water bottles
  • 83)I was looking for this web site MyPyramid.gov but found this one instead MyPyramid.org.
  • 84)It worries me how time seems to pass faster as I get older.
  • 85)I don't understand people who think not having a TV is a huge virtue. I know there is a lot of rubbish on, but some is entertaining, and some is educational. Ratings is everything so if we don't watch, it won't be shown - don't watch the rubbish!
  • 86)I can see no reason for slugs - except sea slugs are very pretty
  • 87)I love doll's houses but I have never owned one. Gary gave me a kit for a log cabin, but I have never got round to making it
  • 88)I was the one who used to watch "Eldorado" a UK daytime soap about British expats living in Spain that was cancelled very quickly
  • 89)I wish I could draw and paint
  • 90)My favourite geeky joke is: There are 10 types of people - those who understand binary and those who don't
  • 91)Even though I have cooked spaghetti bolognese on average once a week since I have been married, I still find it hard to judge how much spaghetti to cook
  • 92)I look much better in my own mirror than the ones in the aerobics studio!
  • 93)I do not like the sound of my voice when recorded
  • 94)I like using Biore nose strips - the results are totally gross, but at the same time strangely fascinating
  • 95)I don't think I could return to live in the UK - the humidity makes my hair go frizzy
  • 96)I would like to learn more about genetics
  • 97)My Room 101 would contain the biggest roller coaster in the world with lots of vertical drops and loops
  • 98)Although I feel desperatly sorry for those affected, I think it is a good thing that mankind is not above the forces of nature (we live on a fault line and experience minor earthquakes every so often - a big one could hit us any time)
  • 99)I love walks on crisp sunny days in the middle of winter
  • 100)I love the sense of freedom I feel on the first day of the year when it's finally warm enough to go out without a coat.