Friday Five

1. What’s the weather outside your window doing right now?
It's windy. It's been windy all day, but mostly sunny, though it's now dark and I think it's raining a little bit, but I'm not going out to check.

2. What’s for breakfast? Lunch? Dinner?
Today it was raspberries and natural yoghurt for breakfast; king prawns and guacamole for lunch; leftover duck a l'orange, with roasted broccoli, and panna cotta for dinner.

3. What are things you can’t go without?
Sleep. Books. Quietness.

4. How did your parents choose your name?
They saw "As You Like It" when my mother was pregnant with me. I have always been profoundly grateful that it wasn't e.g. King Lear.

5. If you could travel back in time, where and when would you go?
I don't really want to go back any time before the invention of flush toilets, and when I do think about times I might enjoy, it tends to be for an experience of that period limited to a very tiny slice of the population. But I do think I would have enjoyed being a mediaeval abbess.*

*Of an actual abbey. Not in the Heyer-slang sense. I would be a terrible brothel-keeper.