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Friday, June 12th, 2026 08:26 pm
Taken from [personal profile] miloviolet

1. Do you enjoy reading?
Yes, I have always loved reading. Having said that there hangs a tale. I went to school at the age of five already able to read, But in the second year of infants school (I was seven) I was so frightened of the teacher, who was a horrible bully, that I actually forgot how to read. Luckily I changed school before the real nervous breakdown set in and my new teacher said I could read, but had been bullied out of it. From then on, I never looked back.

2. What is the first book you remember reading?
I don't remember.

3. Who is your favourite author?
Mary Renault. But currently I'm reading people like Val McDermid and Lindsay Davies.

4. What is your favourite book?
The Persian Boy, which just edges ahead of the Lord of the Rings.

5. What is the last book you read and the first you'll read next?
The last book was "From Crime to Crime" by the barrister Richard Henriques. It's about his career as a barrister, and has a particularly interesting section about the serial killer Harold Shipman. The next book up is "Murder in Purple and Gold" by Lindsay Davies.
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Friday, October 9th, 2020 12:29 pm
From [community profile] thefridayfive:

1) What is the oldest thing you own?
I have a pair of gravy boats which date from the 1700s sitting in my china cabinet. They’re sort of taupe colour and one is a bit cracked. I also have a chair dating from about 1800 in my bedroom, one of a set of four which I inherited from my mother. My brother has one, and my two cousins, Val and Bob have one each which they inherited from my Aunt Ursula.

2) What is the oldest home you've lived in?
When I was about seven or eight I lived in a house which dated to the 1900s. When I was a student in Bangor in the early 1980s I lived in a student house which was probably Georgian, but I’m not so sure about that. It was old, anyway.

3) What is the oldest book you've read?
I have skimmed through the Book of Common Prayer which has a note inside that it was the property of my grandmother, Kate Moss. That means it dates to about 1880 as it was given to her when she was confirmed into the CofE.

4) What is the oldest electronic device that you still use?
An iPod I bought back in about 2005, though I don’t use it often.

5) What is the oldest work of art/architecture that you've seen?
The Egyptian stuff in the British Museum.