7 Favourite Foods
- Poached eggs on toast
- Pommes Dauphinoise
- Steak frites with Bearnaise sauce
- Roast lamb with fresh mint sauce
- Chicken Liver Pate
- Cup cakes (preferably with cream cheese frosting)
- Fish pie (but only if there is extra smoked haddock and no salmon).
7 Favourite Living Authors
- John Irving
- James Lee Burke
- Anne Tyler
- Alice Hoffman
- Peter Robinson
- Ruth Rendell/ Barbara Vine
- Marian Keyes
7 Most Attractive Qualities in Men
- Confidence
- Integrity
- Intelligence
- Articulateness (is that a word?)
- The ability to fix things (carpentry is very sexy, plumbing less so)
- Kindness (to children, animals and the elderly!)
- a dour taciturnity
7 Favourite TV Programmes
- Dallas (I identify so much with Sue Ellen)
- Dinnerladies
- Six Feet Under
- Miss Marple (Joan Hickson version, of course)
- Inspector Morse
- Open all Hours
- The Lakes
7 Best Bubble Baths
- L'Occitane Milk Bath
- L'Occitane Verbena (like lemon sherbet)
- Anatomicals 'Could I be more Pacific'
- Molton Brown: Black Pepper
- Philosophy: Bubbly (champagne scented)
- Philosophy: Margarita
- Molton Brown: Suma Ginseng
7 Best Children's Books
- Kaspar Prince of Cats – Michael Morpurgo
- The Diary of a Killer Cat – Anne Fine
- Born to Run – Michael Morpurgo
- Rose Blanch – Ian McEwan
- The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse – Ursula Moray Williams
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken
- Flower Fairies – Cicely Mary Barker
7 Current Favourite Possessions
- Alex Monroe silver feather necklace
- 1950s style cream fridge
- My new tiffany lamp
- Bobbi Brown lipstick (shade 'Brown', which is actually pink)
- My knitting bible: Knitty Gritty by Aneeta Patel
- Hetty (of course)
- My 1970s green telephone (although it hasn't worked since I dropped it).
Favourite places in the North
- Alnmouth
- Bamburgh beach
- Durham Cathedral
- Betty's tea rooms in Harrogate
- Laing Gallery
- Tyneside Cinema
- Whitby
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