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nicolap...
Why does Lesley call you Liss Havilland in the introduction to her book (this was bothering me last night)? Do you in fact have many identities?
I do have many identities, yes. *looks shifty* Back when I first started making websites etc, back in my teenage days, that was my webly pseudonym. Which was fine and dandy, only then real life started to intrude on my internet life. Slightly awkward, actually, because in the GO/CS world people tend to use their own names, and I embraced the internet via Buffy and Star Trek etc, where everyone just had usernames, so I ended up feeling hideously dishonest and a fraud. But it's still just me.
What should I cook for tea tonight? (I was inspired by your spinach risotto, it was very fine)
Spinach risotto is a gift of the gods. *g* Um... Lasagna. Lasagna is a beautiful dish that is vee easy and yummy. Oh yes.
I have never seen an episode of Supernatural. Is this a grave omission?
Weeeelll, it depends on one's televisual tastes. It's touted as a horror film a week, but it's not particularly scary, and some of the plots are a bit silly. But the main characters (apart from, obviously, being utterly pretty and lovely) are very well characterised, and also can be very funny, and more people should watch it, because it's culty joy with a squidgy emotional centre and a brilliant soundtrack.
Do you remain a northerner at heart?
Yes, I think so. I think when you've been brought up somewhere, and you have such strong ties to an area (Sheffield, in my case), it's hard for that to ever go away, even when you've moved all over the place. A lot of the time, I don't really miss it a great deal (I hated Sheffield in my youth - it was a fairly shitty city, though it's much better these days), but when I go back, it does feel like home. I know London fairly well, but there's a difference in knowing a city that you've lived in as an adult, and knowing one that you've lived in as a child, and that your parents and grandparents etc etc have lived in forever. Wherever we drive in Sheffield, my mother drove when she was taking her driving test. My grandparents cannot refer to TJ Hughes as TJ Hughes. They can't even manage House of Fraser (that building's previous incarnation). For them, it's still Walsh's. Harry Walsh would, apparently, turn in his grave... The closing of Jessup's Hospital led to endless reminiscences about giving birth to my mother there... There's a programme from a pageant for George V's first visit to the city after becoming king (in about 1911) that has my great-grandmother listed as 'an Ethiopian child'...
Also, I'm blatantly a northern lass, still, which I suspect is what you meant by the question *g*. Ee, how I do like to witter...
When you are (even more) famous and a film is made of life at Fangirl Towers, who will play you and Katie?
I have no idea. Cool people, obviously. Oh yes. I dunno. What do people think? Who could portray us on the silver screen. I mean, Nicole Kidman for me, obviously - the resemblance is marked...
Anyone else want some questions?
nicolap...Why does Lesley call you Liss Havilland in the introduction to her book (this was bothering me last night)? Do you in fact have many identities?
I do have many identities, yes. *looks shifty* Back when I first started making websites etc, back in my teenage days, that was my webly pseudonym. Which was fine and dandy, only then real life started to intrude on my internet life. Slightly awkward, actually, because in the GO/CS world people tend to use their own names, and I embraced the internet via Buffy and Star Trek etc, where everyone just had usernames, so I ended up feeling hideously dishonest and a fraud. But it's still just me.
What should I cook for tea tonight? (I was inspired by your spinach risotto, it was very fine)
Spinach risotto is a gift of the gods. *g* Um... Lasagna. Lasagna is a beautiful dish that is vee easy and yummy. Oh yes.
I have never seen an episode of Supernatural. Is this a grave omission?
Weeeelll, it depends on one's televisual tastes. It's touted as a horror film a week, but it's not particularly scary, and some of the plots are a bit silly. But the main characters (apart from, obviously, being utterly pretty and lovely) are very well characterised, and also can be very funny, and more people should watch it, because it's culty joy with a squidgy emotional centre and a brilliant soundtrack.
Do you remain a northerner at heart?
Yes, I think so. I think when you've been brought up somewhere, and you have such strong ties to an area (Sheffield, in my case), it's hard for that to ever go away, even when you've moved all over the place. A lot of the time, I don't really miss it a great deal (I hated Sheffield in my youth - it was a fairly shitty city, though it's much better these days), but when I go back, it does feel like home. I know London fairly well, but there's a difference in knowing a city that you've lived in as an adult, and knowing one that you've lived in as a child, and that your parents and grandparents etc etc have lived in forever. Wherever we drive in Sheffield, my mother drove when she was taking her driving test. My grandparents cannot refer to TJ Hughes as TJ Hughes. They can't even manage House of Fraser (that building's previous incarnation). For them, it's still Walsh's. Harry Walsh would, apparently, turn in his grave... The closing of Jessup's Hospital led to endless reminiscences about giving birth to my mother there... There's a programme from a pageant for George V's first visit to the city after becoming king (in about 1911) that has my great-grandmother listed as 'an Ethiopian child'...
Also, I'm blatantly a northern lass, still, which I suspect is what you meant by the question *g*. Ee, how I do like to witter...
When you are (even more) famous and a film is made of life at Fangirl Towers, who will play you and Katie?
I have no idea. Cool people, obviously. Oh yes. I dunno. What do people think? Who could portray us on the silver screen. I mean, Nicole Kidman for me, obviously - the resemblance is marked...
Anyone else want some questions?
