What was the question again?

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That's 12 sets asked, and only 2 sets answered, so if anyone else wants to ask me some questions go ahead. I shall answer them in the comments here. I'll only set you some if you've asked me some first.

Update: Thanks, those were fun. I think I've had enough now though :-)

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Ooh, look at her. I suppose I've been more asked than asking. About to demonstrate why.

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1. What has been the happiest calendar year of your life, and which would you most like to have skipped?

2. What is the optimum number of cats to own? Should they be named under one logical structure, or on a case-by-case basis?

3. How long could you survive without the internet? What is the most you would pay per month for a connection before you gave up, in a world with no public terminals?

4. Would you rather live in a world with no hills, or a world with no lakes?

5. What would happen if you were a contestant on Big Brother?

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1. What has been the happiest calendar year of your life, and which would you most like to have skipped?

I don't think I can pick a happiest. Ther's been lots of years that have been perfectly nice, and mostly I have a disposition to be fairly happy. As for ones to skip: well mostly even the bad years had good bits in, and while I'd love to have skipped the worst bits there are other bits I'd hate to have missed. 1995 probably wins though: first half was OK, but did badly in mods, cheated on someone over the summer, fell out with them horribly once back at college, and then they died. Not a good year.

2. What is the optimum number of cats to own? Should they be named under one logical structure, or on a case-by-case basis?

I think if I were to own cats I'd probably want two. Enough to keep each other company, but not enough to be hard to look after and fuss over enough. Case-by-case basis for the naming I think. I'd love to own cats, and I certainly think of myself as a fairly catty sort of person (though not quite on the scale of yourself or Marna) but unfortunately my mother would never forgive me, as she's allergic to them, so it's unlikely to happen any time soon.

3. How long could you survive without the internet? What is the most you would pay per month for a connection before you gave up, in a world with no public terminals?

Ooooh, I dunno. That's a hard one. I'd find it really hard to be honest, as so much of my life is tied up in it: friends shopping, entertainment. I think if I had to I could give it up, so technically I could survive forever, but I really wouldn't want to. As for how much I'd pay, dunno, more than about 50 quid a month would probably be pushing it, but then I'm used to it being so much cheaper than that that it would seem daft to pay much more. If it came to the crunch maybe I'd think it were more worth it.

4. Would you rather live in a world with no hills, or a world with no lakes?

Oh god. Um. If I can still have the sea then no lakes. And probably no lakes anyway actually. Hills are good, even if there aren't many of them round here. It's still good to stand on top of Castle Hill and watch the world. And I love the area around Mirfield where my parents live.

5. What would happen if you were a contestant on Big Brother?

I'd probably flirt outrageously, snog anyone who'd let me, try and stop everyone arguing, get on OK with everyone, and get voted off at the first opportunity for being supremely irritating. But that's just a guess, since I've never actually seen it.

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There are hills around Mirfield? Where did they come from? Though actually the view from my parents' living room is incredible, especially in the snow. They're right on the edge of the old quarry, so everthing falls away and you're straight from the other side of the road to Briestfield, and over towards the Emley Moor transmitter.

Also nice is if you walk through Lower Hopton, and turn left onto Granny Lane (where my grandparents did in fact live, I've had such a twee life) then you can walk up through the woods past the John Cotton works and back round the gold course, that's fairly pretty.

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I was thinking that whole area, rather than necessarily just in Mirfield itself. I dunno if you don't think of it as hilly, though that would seem a little odd to me, but it's certainly lovely compared to Cambridgeshire.

Emley Moor is fab, been one of my landmarks for years and years, nice my parents live in line of sight of it again. Entertaining to drive up past it and see just how enormous it really is!