About

I’m Hannah, I’m 29, married to Mr H and mum to a little lady known as the girlchild who was born in October 2005 and the boychild who arrived in September 2009.

100 things about me (a work in progress!)

1. I’m an April Fool! Though I was born in the evening not the morning.
2. I’m a Yorkshire lass and proud of it!
3. I’m a qualified teacher
4. I studied at the University of Cambridge
5. So did Mr H
6. I grew up 8 miles away from Mr H, he had to go past my house to get to school
7. We had mutual friends in Yorkshire, but we didn’t meet until we joined the same church in Cambridge
8. I’m intolerant to raw onion and raw pepper but I can eat them fine when they’re cooked
9. I’m allergic to chrome
10. And to colophony – also known as pine resin – that one makes Christmas interesting!
11. Both of these are often in glues and adhesives which means I can’t use plasters unless absolutely essential, if I get a blister I often end up having to bandage half my foot up!
12. I love fish, if I’m in a restuarant and there’s a fish dish on the menu then nine times out of ten that’ll be what I’ll pick
13. I frequently have quite a craving for a McDonalds Fillet of Fish
14. I’m useless at sticking to diets!
15. Mr H and I have half heartedly joked about having enough children to fill a people carrier (or mini bus)!
16. The munchkin may be small but she eats far more food than any of her little friends
17. I love the Chalet School books by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, I have most of them and am gradually completing the collection as money allows.
18. Before the munchkin I was an avid reader, now I have to snatch odd moments here and there.
19. I love the Susanna Gregory books about the medieval physician set in Cambridge.
20. I’m a huge fan of Strictly Come Dancing, I’d love to be able to dance and wear the gorgeous dresses.
21. I used to do a lot of Scottish dancing at university and almost became the president of the student society (I was asked but due to school placements couldn’t commit the time).
22. I love card making (I try not to buy any at all) and am trying to get into scrap booking.
23. I’m hooked on Facebook and catching up with uni friends (and others) on there.
24. I love wearing pink clothes, I’m rarely seen with out at least one item of pink clothing on.
25. I love the cheese Port Salut – it’s so creamy, I wish it was diet friendly!
26. The munchkin is the spitting image of her father, except she has inherited my nose.
27. Though her nose hasn’t been broken and hence isn’t bent!
28. I love to watch a movie in an evening, however I tend only to like chick flicks and rom coms
29. I hate action, horror, thriller type movies
30. Mr H and I rarely agree on a movie to watch
31. I don’t mind watching the Motorway Patrol/Police, Camera, Action type shows though so we often end up watching them if there’s nothing else on TV
32. Mr H and I loved the series Friends and have them all on DVD.
33. We also have all the episodes of The Vicar of Dibley on DVD, they’re fabulous!
34. Mr H has all the Ally McBeal episodes and is slowly building up is collection of The Simpsons as well.
35. The first blog I ever read was Random Acts of Reality which I found through this BBC News article.
36. I then had a look at a couple of blogs on his list of favourites.
37. Every other blog I have found is through links on other blogs or through the blog author commenting on here.
38. The first ‘Mummy/Mommy’ blog I read was The Musings of a Juggling Mother by Mrs Aginoth.
39. My first commentor is still commenting – though under a different name!
40. I have a fondness for a type of potato salad only available in Lidl – it’s divine. I can rarely go in and not buy a tub.
41. Maybe that’s why my diets never work too well – the tubs are huge!
42. Mr H and I love relaxing with a board game, though not the standard Monopoly type game.
43. We like the German style tile laying games like Carcassonne, Settlers of Catan and Zooloretto.
44. They’re great though not always as cheap or easy to get hold of as the ‘normal’ board games.