1. It makes me squirm and almost cry when people put blown up balloons near me.
2. When I was 22 I thought it very cool that I had stayed in 22 different houses, I have now slowed this trend down a little.
3. I had also been to 7 different schools, not because I was naughty. My favourite was Rothesay Academy. After I left in S3, I kept going back and sitting in the classrooms with my mates on my days off from ‘mainland school’
4. First time I met my husband was in The Garage nightclub where I challenged him to a game of Columns on my Sega Mega Drive, hot or what?
5. Sarah and Anna know my secrets, red wine has a lot to answer for.
6. I really miss my best friend Ida since she moved back to Sweden and find myself a little lost at times without her around. Ditto for my sister and her New Zealand exploits.
7. I love being sarcastic and cant help laughing at people hurting themselves. I once burst out crying with laughter when my sister cracked her head off concrete steps and split her head open in front of me, Sorry Sis!
8. I really want David Lynch to tweet me back so I can show off to everyone.
9. Whilst in a very smoky room and after a few beers, myself and Chris decided we should go and learn how to kill animals, skin them and eat them. I woke up really worried about us the next day.
10. I like to run my own business but am glad I have a business partner as I’m sure I would be too lazy to go it alone. I also know a ‘proper job’ would mean getting up early every day and I am not into that at all.
11. My favourite movie is Gone with the Wind, I can watch it over and over and over. I find Clark Gable completely tingly and want him to jump out of the screen and grab me!
12. My earliest memory is of a dream I had in my cot when about 1 and half years old. I was in a weird dusky landscape (like gone with the wind) but I was with the Muppets from the Muppet show except all the big scary ones were my friends and kermit was evil. I’ve had this dream many times since.
13. I used to fancy the ‘boy next door’. (and the ‘one along the road’)
14. I speak enough French to rescue myself from being lost and to order ‘nice’ cigarettes. I also think I speak Spanish when drunk but don’t at all.
15. When in France on an exchange trip I tried to ask for a light using a handy phrase the local kids had taught me. I ended up asking if the boy had a penis instead of a light.
16. I used to live in the infamous 729 Gt Western Rd along with the other 10+ of us. Strongest memories (note strongest, not fondest!) are of walking in on Brennie’s bum (and turning the light on coz I didn’t realise he and his bum were in), making Martin think a bed base was an alternate universe, Eric thinking he was a monkey while dancing on broken glass, the man we made for Gerry’s room, Nick falling off the back roof and Martin and Helen’s hideous attempts at painting their room. Good times.
17. My art teacher was my inspiration and taught me that ‘High winds don’t blow all morning’ which I have since adopted as my mantra. He also used to read my fortune and was always right.
18. Having a New years party at your house with lots of different groups of people is NEVER a good idea. You cant please everyone and most of them will fall out with you for no reason. Rotters.
19. Nothing beats everyone you love all being together on an adventure. Not sure why but just cant contain myself when it comes to special events! I love to plan them for me or even better for others. Think I’d be a very good wedding planner and expect that’s what I’ll end up doing one day when I have no creativity left in me for design.
20. Two years ago I flew to Paris and back in a day, and went to see the David Lynch exhibition. How jet-set of me.
21. I always think it’s cool to play music via vinyl but when presented with it can never find anything to listen to and when I do I get really annoyed that it jumps all the time.
22. I used to be a complete religious nut until one day I realised it wasn’t God talking to me, it was me having panic attacks due to all the chanting and singing and clapping.
23. My Gran used to tell me Mods were evil.
24. When I was about 12 my Dad had a brain heomorage (how the hell u spell that?) and nearly died. He got a metal plate put in his head and while recovering in hospital kept a stock of wax jackets and shellsuits under his bed to try and flog them to the nurses and anyone who visited him. How embarrassing. And yes, he does beep at airports.
25. When learning to do forward rolls on the gym box in primary school, I lifted my feet off to roll when the teacher turned his back on me and shouted for the class to ‘stop!’ I kept rolling but fell off the only side of the box with no flipping mat on it. I broke my thumb and got taken to hospital. I had just watched Blue Peter the night before where there was a girl in hospital who got given a HUGE injection. I was convinced the docs were going to give me one and hollered the place down for about an hour before they could get me in X-ray. Woops!
