| My hair colour: |
Brown-grey, curly (As a child I hated curls and used to go to bed wearing a hat, hoping to flatten them)
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| My eye colour: |
Brown, very short-sighted (When I take my specs off I can't see to find them) |
| My star sign: |
Libra (mine are up and down sort of scales, sometimes happy, sometimes sad) |
| My favourite book when child: |
The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. When I was young I ate Enid Blyton books. |
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My favourite fictional character: |
Mr. Saucepan, from The Faraway Tree. |
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Books that inspired me to become a writer: |
The Secret Garden and Anne of Green Gables |
| My ideal reading position: |
I like to read at breakfast... and at lunchtime... and in bed at night.
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| My usual means of marking a place in a book: |
Occasionally, and feeling guilty, I turn down the corner of a page, but I have quite a nice collection of bookmarks. Failing these, I use a piece of paper, or a paper clip. |
| My best time for working: |
I like to write in my dressing gown early in the morning and before breakfast, but with lots of coffee. In winter I have a very woolly dressing gown. |
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The first piece of writing I was paid for was: |
The first story I was paid for was 'Midnight Pirate' -- £500 |
| My favourite TV show: |
Eastenders
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| My favourite actor: |
I don't really have one because I get so involved in the story or film I forget they are actors. |
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My favourite savory food: |
I love toast and marmalade, toast and jam, toast and marmite, plain toast. And cheese. |
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My typical bedtime is: |
I always mean to go to bed early but somehow I rarely get there before midnight.
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The tidiest place in my home is: |
I'm a very tidy person apart from books. |
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The untidiest place in my home is: |
I grow towers of books all over the place.
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The creature comfort I would least like to do without: |
Well, at the moment I'm living away from home and most of all I miss my piano. |
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