I’m terrified of heights. They had to send me back down to the ground in an internal lift at Duck and Waffle.
The New Girl
Despite the previous point, I’ve been skydiving. (I know!) I wanted to do it again immediately afterwards. But later, the magnitude of what I’d done sank in and I spent the rest of the day feeling like I’d cheated death. I’ve not done it since.
I didn’t believe in love at first sight until it happened to me.
I am obsessed with food (you’ll notice several of my ‘ten things’ are food-related!) and my husband and I love to cook.
I spent 7 months as a pescatarian in 2014. Jerk chicken at Notting Hill Carnival saw the end of that.
I could eat Vegemite on half a loaf’s worth of hot buttery toast every single day of my life. But I try not to. Because, you know. Carbs.
I used to have a fear of needles so intense they had to hold me down to draw blood. Then I got gestational diabetes, requiring daily prick tests and multiple insulin injections. Fear cured!
I found my wonderful agent Lorella the night before I went in to hospital to have a baby. I ended up having to decline several more offers from other agents from my hospital bed prior to giving birth!
I share a name with a Norwegian princess. I had no idea until I met - and married - a Norwegian.
As a child I had two pet rats calls Isabella and Beatrice, named after characters in the children’s book The Rats of NIMH.