| My hair colour: |
Grey, what there is of it, except my eyebrows, which are black.
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| My eye colour: |
Hazel |
| My shoe size: |
9 (both feet)
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| My star sign: |
Aries
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| My favourite book when child: |
Robin Hood
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My favourite fictional character: |
Desperate Dan
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My favourite author: |
Graham Greeene
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| My ideal reading position: |
Propped up in bed (an early night) - or on a comfortable lounger somewhere in the south of France
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| My usual means of marking a place in a book: |
A railcard
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| My favourite time of year: |
High summer in our London garden, and early autumn (the season when I first met my wife)
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| My favourite time of day: |
Morning, at my desk
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| My best time for working: |
Ditto
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The first piece of writing I was paid for was: |
A short story for a children's newspaper edited by Lance Solway
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| My favourite TV show: |
'House of Cards' and 'Our Friends in the North'; usually drama, although I rarely miss Channel 4 News.
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| My favourite actor: |
Ian McKellan
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| My favourite song: |
Judy Garland singing 'The Man That Got Away'
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| The creaure comfort I would most unwillingly relinquish: |
My bathroom |
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My favourite sweet food: |
Vanilla ice cream (especially the dense Lyons' cylinders we used to have)
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My favourite savory food: |
Peanuts (snack); steak (meal). |
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My typical bedtime is: |
10:30/10:45, working weeks |
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My mousemat design: |
Boring but undistracting matt black |
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The tidiest place in my home is: |
The sitting-room
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The untidiest place in my home is: |
The third room |
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The working tool I would least like to do without: |
My Brother LW-750IC word processor
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My favourite year of childhood: |
Aged 11 - the end of the War and the start of a new school
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