1. What would be the contents of your perfect pie?
Mmm. Steak, tender and melty, with a beery meaty gravy.

2. Lift your eyes from the screen - what's the first thing you see and how did it get there?
A poster about photocopying; presume the friendly librarians put it there.

3. What, if anything, would you like to get rid of in your life and why?
Winter, the dark makes me feel funny.

4. If you were building your own house what one room would you include that you don't have now?
A bathroom with a huge bath and loads of natural light.

5. When you were little people asked "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Does your answer then match what you do now?
No! I wanted to be a teacher, a track and field athlete (long jump and 800m, I thought) and a parent - have failed spectacularly at all 3 and am blissfully happy as an unfit, childless trainee plumber.