When were you happiest?
Oh God - can I have three moments? No, make that four:
1.When I realised I was pregnant with my twin girls
2. & 3. in South Africa and Wyoming, both times up a mountain on a horse (not the same one, and not when pregnant).
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| My POV astride the stupendous horse Ace, descending a mountain into a lush valley |
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Bryn Parry (Help for Heroes charity founder) for showing us that compassion and drive can take us a long way
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Insecurity
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Unreliability
What was your most embarrassing moment?
At Prep school when, as usual, I wasn't concentrating in a history lesson and thought shell-shock happened on a beach
What is your most treasured possession?
My under-used office at the end of our garden
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| My office in the London snow |
What makes you unhappy?
Selfishness
What do you most dislike about your appearance?
Frown lines
Who would play you in the film of your life?
Meryl-bloody-Streep - sometimes my life is that serious
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| The most flattering photo of Meryl Streep of all time? |
Nicole Kidman - overrated and over-botoxed
What is your favourite book?
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate
What do you owe your parents?
I owe my father everything, and I owe my mother a care for personal grooming
To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why?
My father, for not being able to introduce him to his grandchildren
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My children
What does love feel like?
Unconditional, except when I'm tired and somebody is tantrumming
What was the best kiss of your life?
Wiith an ex-flatmate in Antibes in about 1998
Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
Bradley Cooper for sex appeal, Michael Macintyre for humour, Daphne du Maurier for creativity, and closest friends for friendship.
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| Bradley Cooper: the photo speaks for itself |
My Greek rescue dog, Klefti
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| Klefti, our charismatic Greek stray and a very pregnant me (not sure why K is wearing a harness and a lead) |
At the BBC working for a woman who hated.....women
What has been your biggest disappointment?
The conviction that I needed to settle down in my early thirties
If you could go back in time, where would you go?
The Wild West
When did you last cry, and why?
Can't remember, but it won't have been long
How do you relax?
Yoga
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
A bigger home
What song would you like played at your funeral?
Imagination by Belouis Some
How would you like to be remembered?
Did her best (kind of)
Lovely list! Ah, Wyoming...I can't wait till my kids are big enough to go camping with me there.
ReplyDeleteYour garden house looks bigger than my flat! What a great thinking spot to have lurking at the back of the garden.
~M
It's almost bigger than my flat too. For that matter, our huge garden is definitely bigger than our flat!
ReplyDeleteYes can't wait to take the girls riding in wild places - only another 10 years to wait til I can take them to the TX Ranch (a real working ranch, not a dude one).
Hello! Lovely to see you back. I like that you put pics in too, love the office. If I was in London I would def ask to borrow ;)
ReplyDeletelaughed lots at shell shock too!
Dear lofty Alexander Residence, thanks for stopping by unbidden - I hope one day to be a proper blogger and not a slogger (so-named by Manana Mama - and she's hardly slow) - the pace is just too fast for my under-financed and over-packed life but I hope that will change. Of course you laughed at shell shock! It is the most stupid thing I have ever said (that's why I remember it).
ReplyDeleteLucky you re the garden, and ditto re taking my girls riding in wild places. My other half grew up on a ranch, and now in its place there's a family farm (they have llamas and stuff, they don't actually farm families), so we hope to send the girls out there every summer when they're older.
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