Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end. 7.30am a cup of tea brought to me in bed 8.30am take the dog out for an hour walk 10am tea, breakfast, pancakes/bacon sandwich not fussy 11am yoga, ideally outside 12pm go swimming 2pm lunch 3pm read a book, do some pottery, mooch around the house…

How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life? Despite only being in my 30s I can reflect and recognise that with each new decade one’s priorities do shift. What was important to me at 15, is different at 25, is different at 35 and I’m sure will be…

Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done. I hate cleaning the car. I have a dog, she wrecks it. It’s covered in dog hair and mud and I don’t want to clean it. No more to be said.

What’s your favorite thing to cook? Every year it was tradition, on my birthday I’d have my mum’s chicken pie. With the exception of one year when I experimented with being a vegetarian I requested mum’s chicken pie. She passed away 4 years ago so now I make it myself, not on my birthday necessarily…

Write about your first computer. For you to understand this you need a bit of background. I grew up in a flat/apartment within a hotel. When my parents decided to expand the hotel my brothers and my bedroom got turned into a place to keep the water tanks so we slept in the living room…

possibly one of the things I’m most scared of is being bad at stuff. Like fiction writing for example, everyone wants to write a book but how many people actually do it? Even if it is rubbish and never sees the light of day. So the people that have novels stuffed into the back corner…