Twenty Questions - February 2008

4) Marmite: Love it or Hate It?

Love it

5) What do you like to do in your spare time?

Spare time? I do enjoy socialising with friends - my favourite place is Mrs. Devall’s conservatory with a nice vodka and coke

6) What is the last book you read?

The Hitchhikers wife - I read lots and lots of books in the month of August

7) Favourite holiday destination?

Italy - I am in the process of convincing Malc that's where he wants to go in the summer

8) What is your favourite hobby?

I do a Suduko every night !

9) What is your favourite thing about Benwick?

The school! I am very proud of our school. The children are great and the support from our parents is brilliant. I also have the opportunity to work with very committed staff governors and friends. I am leaving for pastures new in September, however I am a village girl and will still support our school.

10) What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?

My house! followed by a holiday home in Italy

11) What attracted you to the Headmistress job at Benwick School?

The distance from home!

12) Where is the worst place you have lived?

Liverpool - I taught in Liverpool for a year when I qualified as a teacher and soon realised city life is not for me ! Liverpool is fine its cities I don't like

13) If you had £500 to give to charity - who would you give it to and why?

Scope .

14) What could you not live without and why?

My phone - I talk to friends all the time

15) Do you think Benwick has any major problems, if so what are they?

Not really - I think Benwick is great ! I do think traffic is a problem at the moment with the Forty Foot closed.

16) Tea or Coffee?

Coffee

17) What made you move to Benwick?

I was working at Doddington and wanted to be closer to work

18) What was the last thing you bought?

A pint of milk

19) What is your favorite Breakfast cereal?

Special K - only because I am dieting again! My favourite breakfast is a massive fry up

20) What would you like to be remembered for?

I am hoping that someone will name a bridge after me. I have my eye on the bridge on Whittlesey Road. I want a big plaque - Gill's Bridge - and generations to say who was Gill - maybe I should put it to the Parish Council?...

If that doesn’t happen. I hope my girls, AJ and Ella, remember me as a good mum - that will do for me!