|
Barlow
 |
Skidmore
 |
|
| My hair colour: | Black.
Well, greyish-black. Okay, grey. |
Brown |
| My eye colour: | Dunno
- I'm partially colourblind. Blue/grey, I'm told. |
Brown-Green |
| My star sign: | Libra.
On the cusp, whatever that means. |
Kylie
Minogue |
| My shoe size: | 11 |
10 |
| My favourite book when child: | The
Sword In The Stone |
Winnie
the Pooh |
| My favourite fictional character: | Gollum
|
DEATH
- in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series |
| Books that inspired me to become a writer: | Sci
fi books. And PG Wodehouse. |
How
To Become A Rich And Famous Writer Without Any Effort At All by I
M A Liar Catch 22 by Joseph Heller |
| My favourite author: | Ray
Bradbury (adult) T H White (children's) |
Jospeh
Heller (adult) A A Milne (children's) |
| My ideal reading position: | Barbados
|
Lying
down next to a swimming pool on holiday |
| My usual means of marking a place in a book: | I
don't normally bother. I lose my place a lot. |
A
handy bit of scrap paper |
| My favourite time of year: | Late
spring. I like the long hours of daylihght. |
Holidays |
| My favourite time of day: | Evening |
Mealtimes |
| My best time for working: | Evening.
I put things off during the day, then write like a demon from about six-o'clock.
(Except when Buffy's on.) |
Mornings,
afternoons and evenings |
| The first piece of work I was paid for was: | A
short play - 'The Pressure Cooker' |
Some
jokes and sketches for the TV show 'Your Mother Wouldn't Like It' |
| My favourite TV show: | The
Prisoner |
Fawlty
Towers, The Simpsons, Frasier |
| My favourite song: | Lazy
Sunday Afternoon |
Jerusalem |
| My favourite actor: | Frank
Finlay |
Sean
Connery (male) Juliet Binoche (female) Skippy (bush kangaroo) |
| The creature comfort I would most unwillingly relinquish: | Stilton
cheese |
Wine |
| My favourite sweet food: | Rhubarb
Crumble |
Very
good ice cream and sorbets |
| My favourite savory food: | Black
Pudding (but my wife won't have it in the house) |
Fish |
| My typical bedtime is: | Telling
my kids, 'Well, I'm going to bed now even if you're not. Haven't you got
school tomorrow? Well, that doesn't look like studying to me…' |
Go
upstairs, take off clothes, brush teeth, get in bed, go to sleep |
| My favourite year of childhood: | Can't
remember, but I enjoyed going on holiday to Tenby, which we did for three
years, so it'd be one of those. |
Any
two weeks in July between the ages of 7 - 15 when I used to go to Girl
Guide camp |
| My mousemat design: | Our
character Help, from a forthcoming series, shouting, 'Kludge off!' |
Boring
plain blue |
| The tidiest place in my home is: | The
cat-litter tray (our cat is very fastidious) |
Inside
my computer |
| The untidiest place in my home is: | Everything
else |
Outside
my computer |
| The working tool I could junk: | My
CD player |
My
computer |