I've been nominated for The Liebster Award by Susan Buchanan. Thanks Sooz!

Here are the rules:

1. When one receives the award, one posts 11 random facts about oneself and answers the 11 questions asked by the person who nominated you.
2. Pass the award onto 11 other blogs (while making sure one notifies the blogger that one nominated them!)
3. One writes up 11 NEW questions directed towards YOUR nominees.
4. One is not allowed to nominate the blog who nominated one’s own blog!
5. One pastes the award picture into ones blog. (You can Google the image, there are plenty of them!)

Here's a link to Susan's blog, showing the random things about her, and the questions that she answered: http://susancbuchanan.blogspot.co.uk/...

Now, here are 11 random things about me:

1. I always press the snooze button 2 or 3 times before finally getting out of bed
2. I used to suffer from SVT but had ablation treatment to cure it 2 years ago
3. I lived in a haunted house between the ages of 5 and 9
4. I usually write the first drafts of my novels with a pen and paper rather than directly onto a computer
5. It takes me ages to fall asleep and I sometimes suffer from insomnia
6. I've had lots of phobias on and off in my life ranging from fear of dogs to fear of clouds
7. I was always one of the last 2 or 3 people to be picked for a sports team at school even if my best friends were picking the teams! (I was that rubbish at sports)
8. I won a prize at university for being the best year one student
9. Me and a friend wrote to "Jim'll Fix It" asking him to fix it for us to meet Depeche Mode -- with recent developments, it appears that we may have been lucky not to have been picked to appear on the show
10. I was accepted at a college when I applied for a hairdressing course at the age of 16, but I then changed direction and decided to do A'Levels
11. I once represented a client in a criminal case who was the brother of a famous UK celebrity.

Now here are my replies to Susan's questions:

If you could turn back time, what, if anything would you change?

I wouldn't change anything, I think everything happens for a reason and to get you to where you need to be

What 3 things did/do you definitely want to do before you turned 30/turn 30?

It was a long time ago when I turned 30. I think I wanted to be a bestselling novelist or a millionaire by that date. LOL

Favourite takeway food

McDonalds

If you could date a famous actor/actress for one night only (don't read anything into this!) who would it be?

Keanu Reeves

Wildlife programmes or home makeover shows?

Home makeover shows, even though I am a bit bored of them after watching so many.

Favourite city in the whole world

New York City

City, countryside or by the sea?

By the sea.

Do you have any particular talents (keep it at a PG level pls!)

Only writing.

Which sport do you wish (if any) that you were really good at (or are you already really good at?)

I always wanted to be a Wimbledon champion when I was a teenager, so I will say Tennis.

If today was the last day of Mankind (cheery thought...) what would you like to be doing?

Having fun at a heavy metal/rock festival
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I would like to nominate the following blogs for the Liebster Award:

Darcia Helle, The Secret Writer, Michael Radcliffe, Wendy Laharnar, K B Walker, Maria Karamitsos, Ben Ditmars, Jason McIntyre, Jennifer Lane, Dody Cox, Andrew Blackman

Here are your 11 questions:

1. What's your earliest memory?

2. Favourite food

3. Country you haven't visited that you would like to visit

4. What song makes you cry?

5. Favourite colour

6. Do you speak any languages other than English?

7. If you could interview any famous person on your blog, who would you choose?

8. Something you want to do before you die

9. What do you usually eat for breakfast?

10. Twitter or Facebook?

11. Favourite type of music

That's all! I'm looking forward to reading all the replies.