1. Elaborate on your default icon.
It's a golden pheasant. Seeing one stepping through an English woodland is quite a surprise!
2. What's your current relationship status?
Married.
3. Ever have a near-death experience?
No, but I did come fairly close to death when I was in hospital four years ago.
4. Name an obvious quality you have.
Would it be terribly arrogant to say "intelligence"?
5. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
"Don't Stop Me Now", by Queen.
6. Name a celebrity you would marry:
Nicole Kidman?
7. Who will cut and paste this first?
Psychstace?
8. Has anyone ever said you look like a celebrity?
No, don't think so.
9. Do you wear a watch? What kind?
Yes - Accurist, battery-powered, analogue.
10. Do you have anything pierced?
No (except for my arms for all-too-frequent blood tests and IVs).
11. Do you have any tattoos?
No!
12. Do you like pain?
No, but needles are worse.
13. Do you like to shop?
Yes - clothes and books especially.
14. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
A bottle of water yesterday evening, when I had a wait at the train station.
15. What was the last thing you paid for with your credit card?
A book on ABE books.
16. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
My dad.
17. What is on your desktop background?
At home, the afore-mentioned golden pheasant. At work, nothing right now (am I boring or what?)
18. What is the background on your cell phone?
None - it's too basic for that!
19. Do you like redheads?
Yes.
20. Do you know any twins?
Yes - two cousins and two aunts.
21. Do you have any weird relatives?
Yes, lots.
22. What was the last movie you watched?
At the cinema, probably Pride and Prejudice last year, which shows how often we go. At home, Strangers on a Train, Hitchcock - the British version.
23. What was the last book you read?
Heavy Weather, a Blandings Castle novel by PG Wodehouse.
It's a golden pheasant. Seeing one stepping through an English woodland is quite a surprise!
2. What's your current relationship status?
Married.
3. Ever have a near-death experience?
No, but I did come fairly close to death when I was in hospital four years ago.
4. Name an obvious quality you have.
Would it be terribly arrogant to say "intelligence"?
5. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
"Don't Stop Me Now", by Queen.
6. Name a celebrity you would marry:
Nicole Kidman?
7. Who will cut and paste this first?
Psychstace?
8. Has anyone ever said you look like a celebrity?
No, don't think so.
9. Do you wear a watch? What kind?
Yes - Accurist, battery-powered, analogue.
10. Do you have anything pierced?
No (except for my arms for all-too-frequent blood tests and IVs).
11. Do you have any tattoos?
No!
12. Do you like pain?
No, but needles are worse.
13. Do you like to shop?
Yes - clothes and books especially.
14. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
A bottle of water yesterday evening, when I had a wait at the train station.
15. What was the last thing you paid for with your credit card?
A book on ABE books.
16. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
My dad.
17. What is on your desktop background?
At home, the afore-mentioned golden pheasant. At work, nothing right now (am I boring or what?)
18. What is the background on your cell phone?
None - it's too basic for that!
19. Do you like redheads?
Yes.
20. Do you know any twins?
Yes - two cousins and two aunts.
21. Do you have any weird relatives?
Yes, lots.
22. What was the last movie you watched?
At the cinema, probably Pride and Prejudice last year, which shows how often we go. At home, Strangers on a Train, Hitchcock - the British version.
23. What was the last book you read?
Heavy Weather, a Blandings Castle novel by PG Wodehouse.
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Date: 2006-07-26 09:14 pm (UTC)Did you take the golden pheasant photo yourself?
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Date: 2006-07-27 07:04 am (UTC)We did see some, along with other exotics (silver and Lady Amherst's, and I think there was a Reeve's there as well) at Chatsworth (the "Devonshire dump", as Harry Turtledove has it) last autumn, but I don't think I had my camera with me.
I gacked it off the web - can't remember where from.