I think it might be time for a get to know me post. So here are fifty interesting, mildly interesting and probably even some boring facts about me.
1) I’ve always consistently wanted to write books. I wrote my first story when I was three, it was about a girl who dances naked in a field and dies of a fever. I must have been a really twist child!
2) I wasn’t taught to read, I simply picked it up as I went along and could read before I started school.
3) Despite this I was diagnosed with dyslexia, very late on, just after my twenty-first birthday.
4) I don’t know what my favourite book is. It depends on the day.
5) I am a huge huge Jane Austen fan, my love of the internet started with Jane Austen fanfiction.
6) I had a story plagiarised, I still can’t get my head around the idea that somebody was making money off something I wrote when I was sixteen.
7) Although Mr Darcy is of course Mr Darcy, I have a literary crush on Henry Tilney.
8) I have a degree in Medieval History, I’d been meaning to read English until I started studying Chaucer.
9) I also have a masters in History Theory. It was probably the poorest financial decision I’ve ever made.
10) I wish I’d thought about becoming an architect, but then I remember that I’m useless at drawing and I don’t really like maths much either.
11) After I’d finished university I became a cliché working in a coffee shop.
12) I still hate coffee. It smells so good, but it tastes so different.
13) I neither love nor hate marmite. I can’t be the only person who is indifferent to the stuff, right?
14) I have been putting together a world carbonara ranking since I was ten years old. It’s my absolute favourite food ever.
15) I’m allergic to tomatoes (mildly) and coconuts (hideously). Aside from food allergies I’m also allergic to chicken pox and penicillin.
16) I’m lactose intolerant, but not very good at it because obviously there is pizza and tea and chocolate in the world and I have zero self-control. And of course there is the aforementioned spaghetti carbonara too.
17) The only food I absolutely will not touch is beef. Although I wouldn’t eat pork after watching Babe.
18) Pigs are my favourite animals.
19) I claimed to hate sushi for years and year, but I’d never tried it. I’ve only just learnt I love it and now I can’t believe I’ve deprived myself of it for so long.
20) As a kid Disney was largely banned in our house, although we were allowed to watch anything we were given.
21) I still haven’t seen Sleeping Beauty or Snow White, but I know that Belle is my favourite princess anyway.
22) I watched The Little Mermaid for the first time in an A-level history class, my teacher was honestly concerned I hadn’t seen it yet.
23) Even though I’m not an avid fan of the films I’ve been to Disneyland Paris four times, the most recent this summer.
24) I haven’t travelled as much as I’d like, but I loved Egypt when I had the chance to go there.
25) Going on holiday with me is quite hectic, I get a bit obsessed with site seeing, and I really want to see it all before I leave. I’m not one for lazing around by the pool.
26) The one place in the world I’m desperate to visit in Venice.
27) I have a twin brother, who is my complete opposite in personality. He was like my human security blanket when I was little.
28) I’m related to Samual Morse, the inventor of Morse Code, which is cool, but would be better still if I was also related to Inspector Morse.
29) My Dad has one hundred and twenty first cousins, but I only have one half cousin.
30) To this day I’m convinced I once levitated around my house when I was eight. Sadly, the rational side of my brain knows I must have dreamed it.
31) I love Harry Potter so much I thought that was a sure fire sign that I’d get my Hogwarts Letter.
32) I believe in ghosts, and have lived in two houses with a spirit. One was friendly and the other ceased her hostilities eventually. I swear I’m not totally crazy.
33) I am a cat person, and have always lived with cats. I only have one right now, I call him Bear.
34) I’d like to keep chickens and goats for pets too.
35) If I was really really rich, the most extravagant thing I would spend money on would be wearing new socks every single day.
36) I absolutely love clothes, but somehow I can’t figure out why I keep running out of storage space.
37) My biggest fashion gripe is that a lot of clothes are made for women without women’s shapes.
38) I wear a GG bra, they’re all real, and it’s quite a burden. Should I even be telling the internet this?
39) I wasn’t interested in makeup in my teens. I didn’t really wear it until I was twenty-one.
40) Like a lot of people, I got into makeup watching YouTube Beauty Gurus. I found it relaxing watching makeup tutorials, I used it as a way of calming my anxiety.
41) Somehow I’m still not particularly good at applying it myself, I guess I just lack any sort of artistic talent.
42) I love dancing, I started ballet when I was three years old, and even though I’m pretty clumsy I’m sure it would have been ten times worse without.
43) As well as ballet I’ve studied tap, modern, jazz, latin and ballroom.
44) I can play the piano and clarinet, but only where there’s nobody around to hear me.
45) Everybody thought I would become an actress, despite being painfully shy.
46) Whenever I meet a famous person I don’t have a clue who they are. This includes, but is not limited to Prince Charles and Camilla. More embarrassingly I once told Jasper Carrot I thought he was a black man (I was nine, my parents still love to tell the story).
47) My friends all call me giraffe, because of my skinny legs. Each different group has come up with this idea independently.
48) I lived in London for five years, I used to think I’d be there forever, but I’m happier in my field in the country now.
49) Sometime I feel like the only person who’s lost and confused by live. But other days I think I adult quite convincingly. Does everybody feel as at sea as me.
50) I’m sorry I cannot think of a fiftieth fact! So I lied, it’s only forty-nine semi interesting facts about me.
Nella E Grace 