As it seems to be a time of year when everyone is "nicking" quizzes/wish lists from each other, thought I'd post my answer to Wendlane's quiz:

1.What is your favourite childhood memory?
Running around the veld in South Africa with my little "gang" (all aged around 4/5yrs old) feeling free and not a care in the world.

2. What Was Your Favourite Childrens TV programme?
Didn't have TV. Brought up on radio & reading books.

3. What is the most embarassing thing that's ever happened to you?
Wrote an email about a colleague moaning about her habit of saying she'll do things and then never has the time. She saw it on my screen and read it!

4.What was the first record you ever bought?
This is awful, but it was Crackling Rosie by Neil Diamond! (I was very, very young!)

5. What is the most important thing you learnt as a child?
You're on your own.

6. When were you last star-struck?
Haven't been. Having not been brought up in this country, when I worked at the BBC, I would see all these people and not know who they were!

7. Which celebrity have you most enjoyed meeting?
Not met anyone who I'd call a celebrity.

8. Which website do you visit most often?
Blog.co.uk; my email account and another site which I wont own up to.

9.Who is your hero or heroine?
Nelson Mandela (for his capacity to forgive and bring a nation together); Joe Simpson & Ellen McArthur (for their tenacity)

10. Which talent would you most like to have?
A wonderful artist.

11. What makes you happy?
Walking in woods when there are few people around; sitting and looking out to sea; being in love; watching animals play; laughing.

12.What scares you?
Not being able to fulfull my potential whilst I'm alive.

13. What are you reading?
Have 2 books on the go - "Developing Spiritual Intelligence" by Altazar Rossiter and "The Heart of all Knowing" by Barbara Meiklejohn-Free

14. What is your guilty pleasure?
Marshmellows

15. What wakes you up in the morning?
Because I need the toilet.

16. How do you unwind?
Blogging, listening to music & recently started to meditate regularly.

17. Where do you escape to?
My bedroom.

18. The best holiday you ever had?
Visiting Mozambique as a very young child.

19. What moment changed your life?
A particular period of depression when I did seriously think of ending it all. I didn't because I just knew that I wouldn't be successful - it wasn't my time to go.

20.Describe yourself in three words
Soft, nice, quiet

21. Favourite building?
RICS headquarters in London (on the corner of Parliament square)

22. Is there an afterlife?
Yes

23. What's your takeaway of choice?
Chinese or Thai

24. Is your glass half empty or half full?
Half Full although some days it feels like it is being emptied rather quickly.