Questions, questions....

Today I thought I'd have a little fun by answering some questions, which Diane of Heart Shaped asked over on her blog a few days ago.

1 . Best place you have ever been? 
Lilianfels, Blue Mountains, Australia. 
And, Chillon Castle, on Lake Geneva

2. Who was your fave teacher and why?  Mr Arkell who taught History at my comprehensive school.  His enthusiasm for the subject sparked my interest in history.  He was also a lovely man.

3. If you had to learn a new subject, what would it be?

Photography.

 

4. If I sent you a ticket to anywhere on earth, where would you like to go?

Machu Picchu
 

5. My son says that when Richard Branson fly's you to the moon, he'll go. Would you?

No way.  I'd be terrified.
 

6. Who makes you laugh?

Apart from Violet, Dave Allen.
 

7. Describe your typical Saturday Night.

Knitting whilst watching a movie.
 

8 What is your biggest wish?

That my daughter grows up happy, healthy and confident in her abilities.
 

9 Do you have a favourite poem?

 

 - One Day I Wrote -  by Edmund Spenser. 

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,

But came the waves and washed it away:

Again I wrote it with a second hand,

But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

'Vain man', said she, 'thou do'st in vain assay,

A mortal thing so to immortalize,

For I myself shall like to this decay,

And eek my name be wiped out likewise'.

'Not so', quoth I, 'let baser things devise

To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:

My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,

And in the heavens write your glorious name,

Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,

Our love shall live, and later life renew'.

 

Those last three lines are the words I wrote on the flowers at my mother's funeral.

 

10. What advice would you give your 18year old self?

So many things, but mainly not to believe that life revolves around my boyfriend.
Spend more time with family - they aren't with us as long as we would like.
Go travelling with friends. The planet is a big place and there are so many fantastic things to see, experiences to experience and people to get to know.

Don't stay in an office job,  study to become a teacher.
Have more confidence in yourself, and above all - I should have listened to my mother. It wasn't until I had Violet that I realised what a wonderful woman she was and I never even knew it.

 

11. What is your fave TV show from your childhood?

The Moomins, The Flumps.