Good
- Writing books for children
- Reading – any time, anywhere
- My family
- My friends
- My fans
- Animals – especially my cats
- Eating – especially cheese, though I shouldn’t
- Travel
- Kids who tell jokes
- Good comedy on the tele
Snow. We hardly get any in London, so I spend all winter sulking- Holidays by the sea. That’s because I was brought up in Devon
- The colour Red
- High heeled shoes
- Going to the cinema
- Broccoli
- Libraries. They’re free!
- Coming home after being away
- Playing games like cards and Scrabble but only when I win
- Lying in a hammock on a tropical island with a book and a pretty drink with an umbrella in – O,K. that’s 21 things, but who’s counting?
Bad
- Drizzle
Oysters/kidneys/liver/baboon’s bum/pink blancmange- Wars and people being mean to each other
- Waiting for a bus in the rain, without a book to read
- Being ill in bed
- Crocodiles. Sorry, don’t like ‘em. Brrr
- Saying goodbye to people I love
- My house catching on fire (it did, once!)
- Arguments, especially ones I lose
- Monopoly. I’ve played it once too often
- Losing my purse/car keys/knickers
- Trying to read a map and drive at the same time
- The cats getting ill. Or people
- Slugs. Sorry, don’t like ‘em either
- Scratchy jumpers that make you hot. With a horrible pattern on
- When I get all my warm clothes on, plus boots, then go out and it’s stopped snowing
- Intolerance
- Forgetting the punch line of a really good joke
- Jumping out of an aeroplane. Never have, never will
- Nightmares about being chased by slugs/crocodiles who want to force feed me pink
