And the Third Character Meme - this one's for Nina

10 Facts about Judith

1. When she was young she wanted to have 5 kids. Although she says she's glad she's only had one, she still pines for a larger family.

2. She wanted to go to University, but her parents said no, so she did a secretarial course instead. Later she did a diploma of education which she supported herself financially.

3. She had 4 miscarriages before Grace, and 3 afterwards. At that point Brian insisted that they stop trying. She still remembers the anniversaries of 2 of them as they miscarried near the end of  their second trimesters.

4. Brian was her first, and she waited until they were married before they had sex.

5. Her favourite music is jazz - not the modern stuff or dixieland. She wishes she could sing like Billie Holliday. Her second favourite is classical - Debussy.

6. She's never been overweight or on a diet. In fact she has trouble keeping weight on.

7. She'd prefer not to work, but her salary is what covers most of the bills. She sometimes thinks that the reason why Grace is so wild is because she wasn't at home for her.

8. Judith is an only child. Her mother was an only child and so was her maternal grandmother.

9.She is tone-deaf.

10. She loves to dance old ballroom dancing.

More of Character Memes for Van

10 Facts about Brian.
1. Brian became a christian after he finished University, before that he studied as a Mechanical Engineer, and was an agnostic with seeker tendencies. His parents were church-goers but not christians, and were horrified when he became 'born-again'. Twenty years later they still think he's going through a phase.
2. He prefers research rather than the pastoral duties of ministry. He thinks he's not much good at pastoral, but he's wrong.
3. He plays tennis left-handed because he had a left-handed tennis teacher.
4. The first time he saw Judith, he knew they were going to marry. This is regardless of the fact that he already had a fiancee and she had a boyfriend. He broke off his engagement that night. It took him two more years to sabotage her relationship and convince her to go out with him. They married within six months of officially going out together.
5. He loves cuddling and finds excuses to cuddle at every opportunity.
6. He has a son with his ex-fiancee.
7. He's been snipped. He walked bow-legged for a week afterwards because of the shoddy job the doctor did.
8. He feels things very deeply but tends to not show them. He has been known to take a shower so he can have a cry without being caught at it.
9. His favourite sport is Cricket. Summer is Cricket time, and the only thing that will stop him from watching 'The Ashes' is crises at work. He's a decent spin bowler.
10. He loves Roast Beef and Yorkshire pudding, followed by a trifle. (He's very traditionally English in his food preferences).

Character Meme - Tagged by Van

Grace Peridot - 10 Facts that no-one knows (esp. her parents and her BF)


1. When she and Adam first had sex, she hadn't had her first period yet.
2. She doesn't want her parents and Adam to meet because deep in her gut she knows that her parents will think he's not good enough for her and she's afraid they may be right.
3. Her favourite toy when she was little was Acne Boil-Lancing a Blue Bunny with a revolving carrot. She named the bunny after a story she overheard her parents laughing at. They think the bunny is named Acky. She still sleeps with it under her pillow.
4. She doesn't like chocolate.
5. Her favourite music is Australian Crawl and Air Supply . Her parents think her favourite is classical music, and her boyfriend thinks it's punk.
Australian Crawl - The Boys Light Up
Air Supply - Lost in Love
6.  She plays harmonica.
7. She won't wear Pink because it looks too girly - but privately she actually quite likes it.
8. She enjoys reading philosophy books because it gives her big ideas to confuse the other kids at church with. She has a personal goal to convert 5 different kids to 5 different philosophies. So far, she's managed 2.
9. She loves swimming naked. There's a beach out of town at Sunrise Island that no-one goes to, and she will go there regularly to skinny dip. (Book 2)
10. She has 3 friends at school, who all know about Adam. One of them has slept with him behind her back. One of them knows about the first, but hasn't told Grace. The third is completely clueless and thinks it's all terribly romantic. None of them have told their parents about it.