- I grew up with my Mum & younger sister in Dorset, my grandma lived just down the road. Quite the female powerhouse...
- I have a half brother from my Dad's second marriage.
- My brother is 14 years old and lives in London with his Mum.
- My brother and I look more like each other than my sister and I. That's because we both have large noses. He hasn't developed the complex yet.
- My mum is 7 1/2 inches shorter than me - I grew up thinking I was a giant freak. I never realised it was her who was the abnormal one.
- All sides of my family have blue eyes.
- I can say "My name is Anna", count to ten and manage to order in a market in Hindi.
- I used to play the oboe and the cor anglais. I became quite good but my mum said listening to me learn was like listening to a cow in pain.
- I played in the Dorset Youth Orchestra and spent weekends and holidays on residential courses at a very expensive boarding school which had the biggest cockroaches I have still ever seen. That put a seal on my opinion of private education.
- I used to go the school where my mum teaches. Luckily she only started doing the sex ed classes after I left.
- I scraped a"C" in A level French because I never concentrated on the grammar. Plus ça change...
- I moved to New York to work for 2 years when I was 27 years old, I lived on the Upper West Side and discovered the joys of Jewish Delis.
- I learnt to rollerblade in Central Park.
- I was living in Manhattan on 9/11/01.
- After working in India when I was 18 years old, I travelled on my own for 2 months and freaked my mother out. She said she has vowed never to worry so much over me again.
- I later travelled on my own to Egypt & Thailand. I liked travelling alone and meeting new people but am happy now I've found a frog as travelling companion.
- I used to think I wanted to work in the theatre as a producer until I decided that I couldn't bear to spend my life around actor types.
- Instead, I now work out new ways to market soap, pasta sauce & washing powder.
- I tried working out new ways to market software, hardware and business services but it wasn't as much fun.
- Because I have moved around in the last 13 years most of my friends are around the world.
- I used to have a nose stud.
- The first time I went skiing I broke my wrist and the first time I really snowboarded I tore part of my knee.
- General consensus is that I am rather clumsy.
- Happily, even though Frog is very sporty he matches me in clumsiness (I am not allowed to mention his rollerblading dark tunnel incident anymore).
- When the ambulance came to pick up the frog at exit of the dark tunnel, even though we'd been seeing each other for 3 months I didn't know his address to tell the ambulancemen. I got a distinct 'you English floozy' look from the men.
I think everybody on this planet has now done this meme, so no tagging, but feel free to play along....
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