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Ally: What is your online nickname?

Katie: Katie (used to be blightygirl in the past but now I’m plain old Katie, or I could be the artist formally known as blightygirl and get myself a fancy symbol…)


Ally: What is your role on The Fellowship of the Fog? i.e. Mod Squad/Chat Host

Katie: I’m the Thursday night chat hostess (8pm) and I moderate the Official Gathering Section where you can check out information on our larger official projects when they are running and also the links and notices sections where you can find many gems of links and advertise your own links and sites (within the rules of course, no dodgy stuff or explicit diaries, Brainfog is for all ages)


Ally: How many candles appeared on your last birthday cake?

Katie: Didn’t you know it’s rude to ask a lady her age? Ah well, I’m still young, I’ll use that line when I’m of a certain age. I’m 19.


Ally: On what date do you regularly blow them out?

Katie: The 13th March


Ally: Location?

Katie: Shropshire


Ally: Statistics :

Katie: I’m 5.1” Blond hair, blue eyes with a chicken pox scar on my nose.


Ally: Marital Status?

Katie: I’m in a lovely relationship with a fellow ME’er


Ally: How long have you had ME/CFS?

Katie: 8 and a half years


Ally: What valuable lessons have you learnt from your illness and what gifts has it brought to you?

Katie: I’ve learnt the importance of feeling sad and down but not letting it take hold and drown yourself. You can end up so deep that you can’t get yourself out. I’ve learnt to be happy, I’m content with all I have now and even though I’d like to be a bit better I don’t need that to make me happy. I was always wanting a bit more to be happy and never got there, I couldn’t ever reach that place where I thought I could be happy as I always set it up just ahead of me. I’m still ill but I have so much to be grateful for, the people who’ve come into my life have a lot to do with my outlook, they’ve had a huge effect on me, and the time I’ve been able to spend with my niece and nephew as I’ve not been in school. I’ve also learnt the importance of having a comfortable bed.


Ally: What do you regret most about your illness ?

Katie: Nothing, it’s the path I was meant to walk.


Ally: How many piercings do you have and where?

Katie: Currently two but I used to have five, two in each ear and one in my nose which I miss but it hurt like hell!

Ally: What is the best gift that you’ve ever received?

Katie: My car


Ally: Galaxy or dairy milk?

Katie: Dairy Milk (Mmm, fruit and nut is even better)


Ally: What is your favourite word or phrase?

Katie: Wonderful, I seem to write it a lot


Ally: Whats your favourite food to chomp on?

Katie: At the moment it’s Marks and Spencers Teacakes, so many ways to eat them


Ally: What is your favourite movie/s?

Katie: Bridget Jones’s Dairy or something more highbrow… bah, that chick flick rules.


Ally: What is your most prized possession?

Katie: I don’t really have one, I just hold on to things that remind me of good times like a metro ticket from when I went to Paris or a magnet that I bought at the Bognor Birdman Competition that I helped us get into.


Ally: What is your favourite drink to drink?

Katie: Simple tastes, apple juice. Or champagne on occasion but I turn a bit… giggly.


Ally: What makes you tick ?

Katie: Thinking. Looking my life, others lives’ and how it all works together and what it means to be people.


Ally: What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?

Katie: Lie there and daydream


Ally: Have you ever been in luuurve?

Katie: Yes, I’m enjoying very much too.


Ally: Have you ever loved somebody so much it made you cry?

Katie: He’ll be reading this, I’ll keep him guessing


Ally: What do you do with your toe nail clippings?

Katie: Cut my toe nails? Why?


Ally: Who is your personal hero?

Katie: So many people but special mention to my mum and dad


Ally: Coke or Pepsi?

Katie: Diet coke or Pepis Max, I couldn’t pick a favourite, would be unfair ;)


Ally: If you could live in any other part of the world than you currently do, where would that removal truck be heading to?

Katie: New York or Paris


Ally: Who would be your favourite Sesame Street character?

Katie: I think Muppets would make great cushions


Ally: What famous person (dead/alive) would you most like to meet and share a glass of wine/water with?

Katie: Bhudda


Ally: What things do you love the most in the world?

Katie: Being happy


Ally: What does you heeeed in the most?

Katie: Computers when they don’t do what I say and hitting them doesn’t work.


Ally: If you could do it all over again, what would you do different?

Katie: That’s a tricky one, I’ve been through a lot but it’s gotten me to a place where I’m really happy but I would watch less bad TV. Only the good stuff.


Ally: What was your most irrational act?

Katie: I’m a totally rational person. Honest.


Ally: What was your most humbling experience?

Katie: Realising in a chat that I didn’t know anything about how complex the heart was after shutting that side out of my life.


Ally: What 5 words best describe you?

Katie: Determined, loving, passionate, analytical (of myself), imaginative


Ally: What makes you smile, especially when your ME poorly monsters are rampant?

Katie: My friends, my boyfriend, my cats and my niece and nephew who keep me going through even the darkest trials.



and finally … but without doubt most importantly ….



Ally: What is your favourite flavour of Pringles?

Katie: Original. Simply the best.

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