St. Philip's Joppa - St. Philip's Church, Joppa

fraction of her skill. (Her Majesty certainly wouldn't want to wear
anything sewn by me)!
Q. Your fairy godmother has offered you one purely selfish wish.
What is it?
A. Tickets to the Vienna Philharmonic New Year concert, every year.
Q. What book would you take with you to a desert island and
why?
A. The complete "Song of Hiawatha" - I bought a copy in a secondhand
bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2005, and haven't managed to
finish it yet.
Q. Tell us something that not many people know about you.
A. I have seen the burning bush, flourishing and green, inside the
Greek Orthodox monastery of St Katherine on Mt Sinai. The Abbott
allowed my daughter Katrina and me to enter, barefoot, the chapel built
over the original site of the bush, which had been uprooted and
replanted inside a fenced-off area of courtyard inside the monastery.
Q. Which reality show would you particularly choose not to
appear in, and why not?
A. "Castaway". I wouldn't survive long enough on a desert island to
finish "Hiawatha". (Oh well, one of these days I'll find the time - maybe).
Q. What and where is the first house you remember living in?
A. My grandparents' home at 7 Ramsey Place, Portobello. Theirs was
the corner flat on the top floor, and one of my earliest memories is
standing at the end of the balcony, looking out to sea.
Q. What’s your guilty pleasure?
A. I buy too many books. I really should make better use of libraries.
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