Sitting down to supper with family and close friends, either in my garden or on my boat.
Rosanna Greenstreet, Q&A, The Guardian, 8 January 2005 source ↗
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?Originally asked
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View all 167 →Watching Foyle’s War in bed with my husband and the dogs.
I have no idea what perfect happiness feels like, but I am looking forward to the experience.
Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.
Judy Blume
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A balmy, moonlit evening in Key West. George and I are enjoying a pasta dinner on the balcony overlooking the ocean. Ella Fitzgerald is singing in the background.
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I hope that it exists. I'm not sure I can fit everything in before then.
I wish school career advisers were more aware of horticulture. They imagine it's just going out into public parks and pulling weeds up, not a career. But there is garden design, horticultural research, conservation – a whole gamut of angles which are overlooked.
I'm a cryer. The family has a competition to see who can get me going at Christmas. The last time I blubbed was on my birthday, when my daughter gave me a framed photo of my 15-month-old grandson Hugo, but I have been known to shed a tear at The Railway Children or Pretty Woman.
My old French teacher Madame Hawksworth stopped me in Ikley car park and said, 'We never thought you'd amount to much.'
I like moronic jobs like mowing. I like looking back and admiring the stripes I've created on the lawn.
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