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I saw a few others had created questionnaires, so I decided I could manage to create one, so here are my questions and answers, feel free to respond with your own answers:

Where on earth would you consider a living nightmare?
This comes down to two choices, the seat at the dentists or a nail parlour, I have never experienced a nail parlour, but I am getting a cold sweat even imagining it, all that nail filing and cutting arrrggghhhh, yep going to have to go with the nail parlour, that would be like having someone continually running their nails down a blackboard for me, nightmare situation, yes nail parlour is my room101.

When were you the most nervous?
This is a tricky one, probably most nervous when I'd done something wrong and was waiting for my Dad to get home, yeah I think the most nervous I ever was would have to be taking a really bad report card home and waiting to see how my parents reacted, although over time with continually bad report cards this became less hard.

First Record you ever bought?
I think this would have to be the first record I bought with my own money, would have to be the 12 inch of Falco, Rock me Amadeus. I know, what was I thinking.

First cassette tape you ever bought?
a-Ha, Hunting high and low

First CD you ever bought?
Howard Jones, One to One

First MP3 file you downloaded?
I had no idea on this one, so I had to go and look at the creation date on the MP3s I had, and I actually don't have many. Turns out it's George Strait, All my exes live in Texas.

First flight on an airplane was to?
Spain, family holiday to Lloret de Mar. We were each given a card at Christmas with the words "This is your ticket to Spain" in it, being innocent and young, I actually believed this was the ticket. I can remember my sister and I really being worried when it got to May and we weren't sure where our cards were and being scared we wouldn't be able to go.

Worst airline ever flown?
Tough choice between Belgian SABENA (Such A Bad Experience Never Again) and the Greek Olympic airline. The award has to go to Olympic though, even though SABENA managed to break the IBM NC I was touring Europe with doing demos of eSuite on, Olympic is the only airline I have flown where the Flight Attendants smoked whilst serving you your meal in the No Smoking row.

Earliest memory?
Not sure which came first here, falling on my back in between some thorny blackberry bushes on a camping trip and not being able to get back up, or wearing German lederhosen that eh, you've had an accident in. I hope it's the lederhosen and that I wasn't very old. Pictures of me in the lederhosen (when dry) are available to the highest bidder.

Favourite business trip destination?
It's a close one between Malaysia and Australia. I've had more business trips to Malaysia and I always found the people really friendly, the food fantastic, taxis super cheap and I really like the knock off gear. Australia is also a fantastic place, and higher on my list to go back to first, but everything can kill you in Australia so you're always checking your shoes

Worst hotel ever stayed in?
This is easy, The Moat House (aka The Goat House) in Nottingham. To get a telephone port to replicate my mail, I had to unscrew the bed of the wall, they had one ironing board and iron in a hotel of about 200+ rooms, services was terrible. The place was a total dump, and I'm sure my co-presenter at the time, Jimbo Craigy will vouch for this.

Worst invention ever?
The nail file, see the first question

Best invention ever?
Ear plugs to block out the worst invention, hhm best invention ever,

Favourite toy as a child?
It changed with at different ages, but Lego Technical is still the best one. Oh and to any American readers, it is LEGO and not LEGO's! LEGO is like Sheep, just as multiple sheep are not sheeps, multiple LEGO are not LEGOs.

Most fondly remembered toy?
Has to be the ultimate, AirFix Flight Deck, my first flight simulator experience, I'm sure this early experience took hours of getting my eventual license. I also have fond memories of my evil knieval stunt bike, these things go for a lot of money on ebay now!, Action Man (GI Joe) and a woodworking toolkit I had.

Scariest things seen on TV as a kid
Would be the Public Information films that used to be on TV in the UK, I think they were made just to scare us (a bit like today's American news media I suppose), some can be seen here http://625.uk.com/pifs/intro.htm, be sure to check out the "Matches" one and you'll see why as a little kid these were scary.

Most vivid smell you can remember?
Well there are the usual ones, like coming home from school and the house smelling of your Mum's freshly cooked pies and biscuits (cookies), but the most vivid smell I can remember is of my Dad's black tool case in the garage. It had a kind of plastic and WD40 smell, very vivid, I can smell it now as I think about it.

Things your parents used to do that you thought everyone did, but now realise don't?
Well there are few for my Dad, the first would be that everything DIY can be done in a day, second would be the belief that one product can cure all ills, yes that would be my Dad's "oh you're felling ill, we'll fix that, let me get you a teaspoon of sugar with TCP on it", you could be coughing up blood but my Dad would swear that TCP could fix it. The third would be telling us that the machine in the mens toilet was a bubble gum machine, but always refusing to buy us bubble gum. How about my Mum, hhm, well I guess I just assumed that everyone's Mum could knit and sew etc. but really my Mum gets credit for cutting all our hair, it wasn't until I was older that I realised there was a place you could go and get that done professionally.