Seven Random Facts about me

1. I like watching antiques programmes – even on daytime TV (sorry Pat). Perhaps it’s a vague hope that one day I’ll find my little silver cigarette box is worth half a million. I especially like the ones with auctions in them – I always try to guess what the item is going to sell for.

2. I have double vision. I have always had prisms in my spectacles but nowadays my eye muscles are affected by my neurological problems and vary from minute to minute so the prisms don’t solve it any more.

3. I love reading diaries. One of my dreams is to find a manuscript diary from the nineteenth century that’s never been read and to end up annotating and publishing it.

4. Despite enjoying experimenting with food my favourite dinner is a good old-fashioned roast with all the trimmings.

5. My principal hobby is photography and everything else tends to revolve around that – such as my love of landscapes, nature, insects, architecture. If it moves or stays still I’ll photograph it.

6. My biggest vice is smoking. Doctors say that if you suffer from chronic pain then smoking does not help. Chronic pain sufferers like me think it does. And, if I think it helps then it helps!!!

7. I get carsick if I read in a car!