1. 50 things you won’t find out about me on Facebook

2. My family nickname is Rabbit

3. My husband calls me Maddy

4. I hate being called Mad!

5. My Dad joined the Navy aged 13

6. My Mum was accepted in to boththe Royal College of Music & St Martin’s College of Art

7. My Brother is a six foot six gentle giant

8. My Brother is married with three beautiful little girls

9. When I was young I wanted to be a classical ballet dancer

10. When I was 11 I danced in the Nutcracker with the London Festival Ballet

11. I also danced with Nureyev at the Sadler’s Well theatre in London

12. In 1983 I was Junior Dog Trainer of the Year

13. I had a dog who literally eat my homework, my school shoes & my car

14. I had a cat who once stole the dinner I was cooking right out of the fry pan

15. I wrote off my first car crashing in to a fire hydrant

16. I flooded the Prime Ministers Lodge when I crashed my car

17. I’ve broken almost every toe in both feet – that’s what you get for dancing on point

18. I broke my nose doing a magnificent tumble turn off a mini tramp by missing the mats & forgetting to put my hands down

19. I can trace my family back to the Doomsday book

20. My Great Aunt served in the Women’s Royal Army Corp in Europe through World War II

21. My first career choice was as an artist

22. As an artist I discovered I made a much better designer

23. As a designer I found I made a much better project manager

24. Through uni I worked at a jewellers stringing pearls

25. My first job as a designer was designing bar codes for shampoo bottles

26. I was an AFA Trainee at Lintas in 1993

27. I transferred to Ammirati Puris Lintas London in 1996

28. I left London for New York on the day of the Soho nail bombing

29. In New York I lived in a fifth floor walk up with no air conditioning through the hottest summer on record

30. I’ve shot commercials on Hollywood movie sets, mountain ranges in Alaska & the sand dunes of Botany Bay

31. My favourite book is Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

32. I am currently listening to anything by Beethoven or Prokofiev

33. My most out there adventure was trekking with chimpanzees in Tanzania

34. My scariest moment was when Frodo the chimp went on a bit of a rampage pulling up trees and drumming his fists on anything he could just because it was raining

35. Nothing scares me more than the prospect of something really bad happening to my family

36. My most heart wrenching moment was learning that my cousin had died in a car accident aged 19

37. I will never stop thinking how incredible it was for my son to have kidney reflex diagnosed in utero - which saved him from the prospect of needing a kidney transplant

38. My husband fell in love with me in New York over pizza, beer & videos

39. I first met my husband when I was four at a neighbours swimming pool party

40. My two boys think I make the best pancakes in the world

41. I love seeing my children discover things for the first time in their life

42. I can make a dragon costume out of 3 pieces of cardboard, an egg carton & a red ribbon

43. I can turn a scribble, a piece of string or even a pea into a story of great adventure

44. I can turn any leftovers in to a meal

45. My kids will eat anything I make for them except roast beetroot risotto

46. I love gardening

47. I hate capers

48. I love chocolate

49. I don’t know how to do fractions

50. I love a good old fashioned conversation with good friends

51. I can’t spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious