Blog Award and 10 things You Maybe Shouldn't Know About Me

Kat very sweetly gave me this blog award with the challenge to reveal 10 things about me that I have not revealed before. My writing has been a little slow of late although I have rewritten my prologue from a different angle which has been useful. I am also waiting to hear some news (any news) from a Christian Publisher who asked to see the remainder of my manuscript that I wrote on the book of Daniel. I am trying so hard not to watch my email inbox so closely but it is difficult to resist. So to take my mind off a very busy week ahead I will have a go at this meme, of course I cannot remember what I have shared and what I have kept hidden, so I hope you will all still like me afterwards!

1. I was in total, absolute, complete and devoted love with Morten Harket (lead singer of Aha) when I was 13. It spawned a number of teenage fantasy love stories that I wrote for me and my friends who lusted equally over other members of the band.
2. I shook hands with Sir Cliff Richard when he opened our former church's new building in 1997.
3. I had to go on my hen night with nit solution on my hair as a client at work had kindly given them to me the day before. Funnily enough one of my friends also sat in the restaurant with nit solution on her hair that night as she had had a similar gift from a child she taught.
4. My nickname from childhood was Mickey and I only shook it when I came to Cornwall and have returned to Michelle again. Only my husband, parents and a couple of Cornish friends call me Mick apart from my Surrey friends who I grew up with.
5. I had a Saturday/holiday job for a number of years at Chessington World of Adventures and was a dab hand at making those huge clear balloons with cuddly toys in them.
6. My aunt runs Sealion Lodge - a holiday lodge in the Falkland Islands where you can see all sorts of amazing wildlife. She told me a story about the resuce of a baby Orca which had been beached nearby. Hoping to take my son there one day as he has a passion for marine wildlife.
7. I am very, very, very, very frightened of spiders - especially big hairy ones. I have had to try and master my fear to stop influencing my children but it is tough. I envy Kat's writing shed on one hand but think I would get no writing down for fear of arachnid invasion.
8. I studied medieval history at Reading University and have spent most of my working career in the social care sector- go figure!
9. I am a closet fan of Horrible Histories on CBBC.
10. I have an ambition to one day raise and train my own barn owl.

Well there you go some small revelations about me!