I have been tagged several times about this latest meme, 25 random things about me. So here goes:
1. I have ghost written the life of a truly extraordinary man which is being published by a leading publisher on September 3. I can’t say more now, but it is very exciting, so watch this space!
2. I love music and wish I could sing like an angel, instead of a frog.
3. I failed maths GCSE three times. But took English a year early and passed with an “A”.
4. I am an aspiring clarinetist and have restarted lessons after a break when my music teacher moved away.
5. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my MacBook and iPhone. Windows sucks.
6. I have a twin brother – and we are very different.
7. I can scuba dive.
8. I have started wearing colourful cardigans in my new kitchen and worry that I am doubling up for Nigella Lawson.
9. I once had a newspaper byline under the name Ethel instead of Ellee. Not sure if it was a deliberate mistake.
10. My mother’s family is related to the Greek Onassis dynasty.
11. I plan to buy a dog once my two sons have flown the nest.
12. I intend to grow old disgracefully. I don’t want to regret the things I never did.
13. I rank loyalty at the top of my values for friendships. I 
would never, ever hurt a friend.
14. I hate egg and cress sandwiches and Liebfraumilch.
15. I would love to dance the salsa with the smouldering Antonia Banderas.
16. I drink hot water and lemon every morning.
17. I have a piece of coal embedded in my forehead after falling in the fire as a baby.
18. I don’t mean to be an embarrassing mum, but it happens…
19. I once judged a Miss Anglia competition and was mistaken for a contestant! True, I haven’t made it up.
20. I very much miss my four dear friends who have died of alcohol addiction in the last two years.
21. I am still trying to conquer my fear of public speaking. I won’t let it beat me.
22. I have a feeling that this year is going to be the best ever for me. I feel so positive and excited about new people I have met on a personal and professional level.
23. I love walking and would like to be able to walk 20 miles in one day with ease by the end of the year.
24. I really don’t care about materialistic items around the house, but I love my high tech geeky possessions.
25. Being a mother and raising children to be happy, healthy and able to stand on their own two feet and have true values is the most under-estimated role. I regard it as a privilege and the best job in the world, even though I am poorer for it!!!
Do join in this meme if you wish.
UPDATE: I’ve just remembered something I should have added. I was once levitated on stage at The Arts Theatre, Cambridge by the Great Kovari. I had a choice of being sawn in half or levitated and opted for the less squeamish one. I’ve got photos somewhere to prove it really happened.
Wow Elle! Dynastic
And you scuna dive
Can you cook like Nigela
– coal in the forehead? – not volcanic rock?
Ellee, you are so versatile! So many different interests and activities.
I am with you on 12 & 13.
I have loved reading your answers 🙂
Very interesting. Im also with you on 12!
You’ll have to push me out of the way before you dance with Antonio!
You are a positive and inspirational Lady. Come and walk the hills with our dogs to kick you off on 11 & 23
Q9, Can I cook like Nigella? I have my moments, but then I bet she doesn’t spend more than half her life on the computer.
Mrs H, that’s a very kind offer and I certainly would love to come and visit.
enjoyed reading this Ellee…. but found my own really hard to do, i have not had a very interesting life untill the last few years 🙂
No 11 amazed me.. can not believe your going to get a dog.. they tie you down more than children 🙁
Sally, it’s the here and now that is important. I know you will have lots more to look forward to.
I have never considered my boys a tie, I wish I could have another 18 years with them.
Wonderful to find out all these things about you. I like you, I do,and think you’d make a great chum since I see so many areas of commonality. Oh, and please do grow old disgracefully. I’m trying my best but can always use help.
I would not have the nerve to post so much info about myself! The only claim to fame I have is being a descendant to Napoleon Bonaparte (the wrong side of the blanket) and I do have his/our family coat of arms proudly stuffed up on my wall!
Devonshire dumpling, I don’t think I’ve mentioned anything here that I haven’t said before. I think your claim to fame is fabulous, I would love to know more, though I must confess that my hero is Lord Horatio Nelson. A picture of one of Napoleon’s horses which ended up in Newmarket hangs on the wall of an Ely tearoom called Peacock’s. I can send you a video link showing it if you wish. Isn’t it a small world…
Ah Horatio! I lived in Gosport for many years and used to go over the ferry to Pompey and visit The Victory most weekends. These days you have to pay to visit and wait to join a guided tour and most times there’s always an important part of the ship that is not available to the public to visit as its being cleaned/repaired/renewed. But I have been all over the Victory and I know Nelson’s old haunts in Old Portsmouth too. Great guy he was. Go visit Portsmouth if you have not done so, then hop on the ferry to Gosport and go to Alverstoke church (I used to bell ring there) and look at the tomb of the Bligh family that is by the church and sadly neglected (think William Bligh of the mutiny on the Bounty fame) then head back to Portsmouth and have a beer at the Still and West pub – another of Horatio’s haunts.
As you say, it’s a small world!
DD, you are a mine of wonderful and fascinating information. I know Nelson’s haunts in North Norfolk where he was born. I would love to show you them one day. We can share a glass of Nelson’s blood in his old local pub. It’s my very favourite place, so unspoilt still. I always think of him and his complex and heroic life when I go there.
Norfolk? I have to stop and think where I was dragged to by my nappy. Nope, never been to Norfolk – Suffolk yes, ‘cos I wanted to go to see Constable’s Haywain Country but I don’t think I have ever been to Norfolk whilst alive or dead.
Ok, so let’s get back to your hero, Horatio – nice guy (he was an ‘armess bloke, you know? always had an eye out for an opportunity) he used to haunt old Porstmouth. Heck – you should drive down and I’d drive across and meet you locally and chat up my old friends to ensure that they would give you a complete visit of his flagship that the general public can’t get to completely see. Failing that, we could always meet up for a pint but please don’t suggest any watering hole anywhere adjacent to the Dockyard in Queen Street.
DD, if I am ever your way, I shall certainly take you up on your kind offer.
DD – I shall go to Alverstoke church next time I am there, thanks for publishing the tip.
Ellee – I would love to join in the meme but I can’t possibly compete with #19! Can you make Baklava? (I’ve never tried but love to eat it)
Philipa, that was a long time ago. I’ve never tried to make Baklava as I don’t have a sweet tooth. Stuffed vine leaves and Moussaka – yes!
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