Yipee - someone sent me some - thanks Iona
1. If you could have a tail, what kind of tail would you have?
A leopard tail. With Spots. This goes back to a poster I had when I went to uni the first time. It was of a male and female couple, who were half leopard and half human. They had tails, spots, claws, ears like cats and were otherwise human shaped. They thing I liked about it though was they way they looked at me. They were very proud, independent, had a lot of dignity. I wanted to grow up to look at the world like that. Like I wasn't afraid, and had nothing to hide. Some days I am getting there!
2. Which do you think predominates: nature or nurture?
I have a kid now to observe, and I am coming to the Cclusion behaviour can be nurtured. It is possible to teach kindness and manners. English even. But that the actual personality is in him. He is a Cfident, non-shy kid, who likes people and talks a lot. I didn't make him like that, he has been like that since a tiny baby. Though the talking is a learnt thing.
So in the end we are a mix. Our behaviour I think can be changed and Ctrolled, but our emotional response to situations is in our genes somehow. And the two interact for life
3. In the movie of your life, which actress would play you?
I don't go to the movies very much, so I don't know the names of very many actresses. This one is hard. I would like to say Julia Roberts, because I have a big smile too, but I don't think I produce the same effect in people when I use it. She also has a kind of innocence about her that wouldn't match with my cynicism. Not Kate Winslet, she strikes me as not too clever, and has too many curves! Not Nicole Kidman. Dunno why! I wouldn't mind being played by Meryl Streep. She seems intelligent, and is not too intimidatingly beautiful. Besides she is blond, and that's my colouring too.
4. What's the smallest place you've ever lived and what did you like best about it?
I used to live in a 12 foot long caravan by Lake Ellesmere in Canterbury. I loved everything about it. It was easy to clean, Shona lived next door so I wasn't lonely, it was damn cheap. We had two horses there, two dogs, 3 cats, sundry birds. I was at teachers college and it was ridiculously easy so I didn''t have to do school work at night and could read. No telly, ate exactly what I liked. Learnt to spin. Tiny places are SO fast to warm up with a heater, I never got cold.
The only problem was the morning I woke up to find a man standing beside my bed. I had no clothes on, and didn't want to emerge from the covers. I couldn't see who it was. The only thing to do was to turn the light on, and so I had to put my hand out of the bed and turn the lamp on. I recognised him as being from a dairy farm nearby, and told him to fuck off. Fortunately for me, he did. I then got up and dressed and grabbed the nearest thing that came to hand, a carving fork and shot over to Shona's caravan. He had gone in there and stuck his hand into her bed right onto her privates - she thought it was the cat, then opened her eyes to see him. Being Shona, she punched him. He turned round to see me entering the caravan with my carving fork and left in a hurry. Shona reckons I looked bloody scarey and ready to use the fork. Somewhat of a relief, I might have just looked like a joke, and I was ready to use the bloody thing!
But everything else about the year was perfect!
5. What's your philosophy of chocolate?
Don't have one really. Don't like chocolate bars, and can't eat much chocolate in the form of biscuits either. But I really really like baked cocoa stuff. I have this chocolate cake recipie that is amazingly rich dark and moist, and then I cover it in my secret weapon - ganache. Never fails. One of the actual ingredients is calories, and if you don't mix it properly the calories tend to clump together and make hard crunchy bits...
Working
By crikey, did i do a lot at work today. Must be the first time I haven't had a couple of hours to cover by dreaming up stuff for the timesheet. If the boss is reading this he'll be thrilled.
Posted by Toni at June 24, 2003 08:14 PM