| My hair colour: | Dark brown. | |
| My eye colour: | Green. | |
| My shoe size: | 5. | |
| My star sign: | If you believe in that junk, you should be able to tell from the way I've answered the questions. | |
| My favourite book when child: | The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge , Brian Wildsmiths' Nursery Rhymes, because of the colours, and like everyone else I loved C.S Lewis' Narnia Books. | |
| My favourite fictional character: | I can't do just one. Little Nemo from Windsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland; The Smallest Chinese Mushroom from Disneys Fantasia; The Rabbit from Walt Kelly's Pogo; Gerda from The Snow Queen; Nosey the dwarf from Hauff's Fairy Tales; Alice (Lewis Carrol); Reepicheep (C.S Lewis) and Carbonel (Barbara Sleigh). | |
| Books that inspired me to become a writer: | The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (see above); Brian Wildsmith's Mother Goose; Narnia; Andrew Lang's coloured books of Fairy tales; Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle; and everything illustrated by Errol Le Cain. | |
| My favourite author: | Nancy Mitford (grown up writer) | |
| My ideal reading position: | On the sofa. | |
| My usual means of marking a place in a book: | Memory. | |
| My favourite time of year: | Autumn. | |
| My favourite time of day: | Pudding time. | |
| My best time for working: | Morning and late at night. | |
| The first piece of work I was paid for was: | 'Kit and the Magic Kite'. | |
| My favourite TV show: | The Simpsons. | |
| My favourite song: | 'Feel the Brain' by Brian Dewan. | |
| My favourite actor: | Grommit (Nick Park's claymation dog) | |
| The creature comfort I would most unwillingly relinquish: | My piano. | |
| My favourite sweet food: | Chocolate. | |
| My favourite savory food: | Potato. | |
| My typical bedtime is: | Pre Pandora 2.00 a.m, post Pandora 11.00 p.m | |
| My favourite year of childhood: | 6. | |
| My mousemat design: | Don't have one. | |
| The tidiest place in my home is: | Ted's desk. | |
| The untidiest place in my home is: | My desk. | |
| The working tool I would least like to do without: | Pencil and tracing paper. | |