It's Tuesday evening (only just) and I've just climbed into bed after what will forever be remembered as a bad day made better by Skyping Mr France, I love that Looby just came and plonked herself down for a while and chatted to him tonight, it's kind of weird but good weird if you know what I mean.
I'd been feeling horrendous due to the withdrawal from Reboxetine, I have every withdrawal symptom on the list and there was a point today when I was weeping over a Toblerone for some unknown reason, even tweets today have made me teary and add to that feeling jittery, anxious and having 17 million purple sparkly (I'd imagine) crawly things running all over your body whilst feeling like you're wearing invisible giant mittens and having electric shocks every 30 seconds and that's pretty much how Tuesday, at one point I'd even decided that I wasn't going to Skype Mr F tonight because he shouldn't have to deal with me but I also know he understands and really he did, we talked about some serious stuff tonight, not all of it was the most fun subjects but that is us, it's usually absurd to deadly serious back to absurd or laughing at each other or with each other. Anyway, I managed to gently prod (imagine a fully charged fluffy cattle prod) Mr F for his answers to our questions and without further ado, here's my interview with Mr France.
1. Lisa from Little Orange Dog asks are your friends all as crazy bonkers as you are?
Imaginary ones that talk to me or real life? I think that answers that.
2. Tracy from Hooks and Dragons asks if you could host a dinner party for 5 people past and present, who would they be and why?
Four of them would be my comedy favourites.
1. Norman Wisdom. He's not only hilarious but a musical mastermind.
2. Kenneth Williams. Deep, emotional and brilliantly funny.
3. Ronnie Barker. Do I need to explain why for him?
4. Hattie Jacques. She was beautiful, funny and personally, could produce a look that would have perfect comic timing.
5. My Mum. She always loved the above. She was my the person to introduce these old time comedians and prompted the things I find funny and built my humour the way it is. So I could share the funniest favourites with me.
3. If you could visit any place in time and space which would it be and why?
I'd like to travel 100 years into the future and meet my descendants.
4. What's your favourite version of you in the multiverse and why?
The one where I have perfect hair and it doesn't take me ages to sort it. It has a mind of its own! Imagine the free time I would have not faffing around with it. I could solve so many problems in that time.
5. Harriet asks Are you an African Prince?
Ek kan nie vir jou sê, want ek die geheim Wet onderteken
6. What is your favourite song and why?
It's a split between
Everyday by Buddy Holly. Just makes me happy.
Have you ever seen the rain by credence clearwater revival? It encompasses the hard days.
7. Name 5 things that make you happy
My children.
Drawing.
Reading.
Playing the piano
Teaching
8. What is your philosophy in life?
"It's better to be a live dog than a dead lion"
9. If a genie granted you 3 wishes right now, what would they be?
To eat whatever I liked without gaining weight.
To be taller....and before you say it...I'm short it will make a difference! 2 inches would be nice. I'm sure the ladies would agree that an extra 2 inches makes all the difference.
To be able to transform into various animals
10. What makes you smile without fail?
One of those deep belly laughs that really reaches the soul of a child....especially my own.
11. Abigail would like to know, if you could change one thing about the world what would it be?
The destruction of wildlife to create and use palm oil. The use of Palm oil is ridiculous.
And the quickfire round where I asked Mr F not to think too much about the answers
crusts - on or off? On
Crocs - right/wrong? Wrong
Snacks - sweet/savoury? Seriously, it's food, I don't care
Bed - soft/firm? Soft
cats or dogs? Dogs
brains or beauty brains
Marvel or DC? Marvel.....no choice
Romantic or cold hard Pragmatist? I'm somewhere in the middle. 64% romantic maybe
Tea or Coffee? Coffee
Cake or Chocolate? It depends on both. I would choose cheesecake over an orange aero but would choose a dairy milk over a carrot cake
So there you have it, Mr France has spoken, I think he gave some great answers, we're having a tiny fight over Marvel vs DC but only because my favourite superhero is The Flash, we might also fight over cheesecake because I hate chocolate and orange as a flavour but I don't like Dairy Milk so I'll have the carrot cake instead, I am glad we have the same stance on Crocs though, that might have been a fail from the start.
A note to Mr F,
I want to say the biggest thank you for answering all of these questions, especially some of the more ludicrous ones, you've had lots going on and I really appreciate that you took time out to do it, I also want to say something else, something that I couldn't say to your face earlier, or at least I couldn't find the right words, you worry that when people find out who you really are that it will be disappointing and you worry that you are at some point going to disappoint me but we are a couple who met in a weird situation and have the weirdest early relationship I know of but there's nothing of you that I expect that would disappoint me, I read pages and pages and pages of your blog before we started Skyping, possible before we'd even done little more than chatted on Twitter, we have spoken for hours, we talk every day and I'll never expect you to be anything that you are not capable of giving, we laugh together, we discuss, life, the universe and everything in between and I'm sure we'll end up crying together and some days you'll shout and scream and so will I but what we have started with is a really honest trusting friendship where we can talk about anything and where we just get each other, my expectations are only the things that I already know and that is that we are going to have lovely adventures together so removing all of the other stuff, thank you for being a friend who I can trust, a friend who cares and a friend who made the end of my day far better than the start of it
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