I have been a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy ever since I can remember. One of the first books I bought with my own money was 'A Princess of Mars'. My favourite TV series as a child were the Anderson puppet series, Dr Who, Phoenix 5 and the Champions.

I'm a bit less of a fan of Dr Who these days. I consider Matt Smith to be an awesome Doctor but I hate the way they're making the character darker. Having grown up with the Doctor, that's a step too far for me. My favourite Doctor is a dead heat between Two and Five but my all-time favourite Companions are Jamie, Zoe and Donna. I also refuse to believe that the Timelords are all dead and constantly plot ways of bringing them back. Favourite baddies are the Daleks, with the Ice Warriors a close second.

I fell in love with Torchwood because of Jack and Ianto but I loathed the Mary-Sue that was Gwen and flat-out refuse to accept CoE as anything other than some weird AU that RTD wrote because he wanted to do a Quatermass story and the BBC wouldn't let him. I'm a Janto girl to the heart but I also loved Tosh and think she got a really bad deal.

Favorite films include Arsenic and Old Lace, Forbidden Planet, Charade, Thunderbirds Are Go, Galaxy Quest, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the first Pirates of the Caribbean, Wings of Desire, Bolt, Star Wars, the rebooted Star Trek, Hot Fuzz and practically every version of The Three Musketeers that has ever been made.

Favourite current TV series are Murdock Mysteries, Castle, Mythbusters, any number of documentaries, Primeval, the CSIs and Star Wars: the Clone Wars. I am NOT interested in the upcoming Torchwood.

Favourite books... there are literally dozens. My favourite authors are C.S. Lewis, Terry Pratchett, Andre Norton, Thomas Burnett Swann, Edmund Crispin, Arthur C. Clarke (when he was writing on his own), Elizabeth Peters (when she's writing Amelia Peabody), Ellis Peters, Georgette Heyer (the only romance writer I can bear), Gerald Durrell, Bill Bryson and... the list goes on and those are only the fiction writers!

I'm a sucker for dinosaurs and endlessly read history books. I often like adverts more than I like the programmes and I live in hope that I will one day raise a successful crop of runner beans which the slugs haven't eaten!