1. Indy and Shorty. I love their little
whiskery faces and their tiny little front teeth, that softest little bit of
fur on the backs of their ears, the way they purr so happily when you stroke
them (I don't care what the animal experts say... in our house purring = happy!), the way Shorty makes a little squeak when you
kiss her head when she's asleep (that could either mean "That's nice"
or "Bog off" - I'm never sure!), the way they snuggle down on you as
if you're only there to provide a warm lap and have nothing else to do but keep
still and not disturb them while they have a nice long kip and their stroppy
"I'll do it my way" cat-titude when they want to go outside but
refuse to use the cat flap and insist you open the front door instead!
2. Jo Malone's Lime Basil and Mandarin perfume
and shower gel. For its perfect
combination of scents - I occasionally get lured away to try other perfumes but
I always come back to it because nothing else suits my skin as much as this
does and I always seem to get asked what it is when I'm wearing it.
3. Clarins tinted moisturiser. I keep trying other foundations, BB creams,
CC creams, you name it, but I always return to this one. It never looks like you're wearing make-up,
is the perfect consistency and colour and never looks caked on! Perfection!
4. Movies. I love watching a good
film! When I was a child, it was always considered a huge treat in our
house to settle down to watch a film together
and I still feel that way every time I go to the cinema or watch a good film on
TV. I don't much care what genre it is
as long as it's well made and well acted! My earliest film memory is from somewhere around age eight, sitting on the sofa with my mum watching
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" starring Charles Laughton and watching
David Lean's version of "Great Expectations" and jumping nearly 10
feet in the air when Magwitch appears in the graveyard - both were utterly
brilliant and totally compelling.

5. A really good book. We are all readers in our family. I love the way you can lose yourself in a
good book, live with the characters and really feel like you've made a new set
of friends or really hate or despise
them too. I love it when a book is so
good I literally can't put it down and end up even taking it into the loo
rather than stop reading! I just wish
there was a potion you could take which would erase the memory of the book's
plot so that you could read them again and again and not know what was coming
at the end. (ditto movies!).