Saturday Roundup - All about me

Hi Vanity!  No, but reallly.  I decided to tell you 10 things (interesting/matter of fact/ random) about me for the blog hop I am taking part in (see badge in my sidebar --> ) so if you've found your way here via Grow Your Blog, I am really happy to meet you and can't wait to visit your blogs too!  If you and I go back a while, then I hope you won't find ths too boring.  And if you want to play along, I'd love to read your 10! {I'll edit ths to add links to you if you do!}

1.  My name's Rachel.  Hi!  I'm in my late {gulp} 20's and live in the middlest middle of England, which is currently cold and snowy.

2.  I am an ex-librarian and ongoing book fiend, though a few health problems in the last 18 months mean that now I mostly listen to audiobooks.  I'm obsessed (in a good way) with Audible and am on Goodreads if you would like to trade reading reccommendations!

3.  I love making things, in particular knitting and crochet, and I am hoping to finally finally get my Folksy shop up and running by the end of the month.  Currently busy stock-building and praying for a bright enough day to take photographs in!

4.  I adore musicals and will can recite many of them (libretto and all) word for word.  I am counting down the months until My Very Favouritest comes back to the West End, as I have recently heard it will.  I am already plotting a mass meet-up to drag Everyone I Know to see it and make them love it too ;)  {if they haven't already been subjected to that}

5.  I once spent six months living and working for a charity in Sao Paulo.  It was the maddest thing I've ever done.

6.  I'd moved away from, and returned to, my home town  at least three times before I decided to embrace inevitability and stay here.  Be it ever so 'umble etc.

7.  When I was about six years old I won a Blue Peter Badge.  Still awesome.

8.  I can tell you, 90% of the time, who that guy was and what on earth you've seen him in.  I have an immense capacity for stupid hollywood trivia, even/especially from fifty years ago, and I love playing the six degrees of every actor ever game.  Ha!

9.  Speaking of, I have a huge amount of my memory given, without meaning to, to storing pertinent details of Sweet Valley cannon and also old Neighbours characters, plots and backstories.  This is why I can never remember what day it is or what I'm supposed to be doing.

10.  I recently quit facebook, and don't miss it at all.  I am on Twitter, and always on a hunt for new blogs to read and friends to make.

Ok, enough about me.  Tell me ten random things about you!