'What do you picture'? Game

I think Annabelle got missed.

Annabelle is 50 with dyed blonde hair that she is just starting to think she should probably have cut shorter. She works hard to stay a size 10, by walking her dogs, jogging, and rarely eating carbs. She is still in touch with her three best friends from school and has seen them through various divorces, health scares and other crises. Annabelle works part-time as a volunteers manager for a charity and frequently (in non-Covid times) holidays in Greece with her husband and grown-up children. She is privileged in an oblivious British way but fundamentally a good egg.

Nora, again.

Damn it!

Oh, I'll do Nelly then.

Nelly is actually Elizabeth, but she's been Nelly ever since deciding to try and distance herself from her very middle class upbringing in St Albans whilst at drama school.

She graduated two years ago, and is actually doing reasonably well, having signed with a well-thought of agency and picking up quite a bit of work. To her intense frustration, in spite of her seeing herself as the gritty and urban type, she keeps getting cast as the well-brought up young lady she actually is.

Nora.

Nelly is 28 and overweight, with a “bubbly personality” and a very beautiful face. Nelly’s mother tells her she’d be attractive, if she could only shed a few pounds. Nelly lives in Cheshire and answers phones at a vets for £9.75 an hour.
She has a long distance boyfriend who lives in Houston, Texas. He works as a cashier in a gas station. They have never met. Nelly likes The Great British Bake Off, but she preferred it when it was on BBC 1.

Annabelle

Quentin is an 85 year old gay man who lives in a ground floor garden flat in Primrose Hill. Prior to retirement, he worked in fine arts appraising, and was in a LTR with John, who he met and fell in love with at university. They were civil partnered as soon as it became legal, in a quiet, tasteful ceremony in an art gallery. Quentin lost too many friends to AIDS in the 1980s, and considers himself extraordinarily lucky to have spent his life with the man he adores. Sadly, he lost John to lung cancer 3 years ago.

Quentin has a long haired black cat called Dorian Grey - so called because he remains the picture of a pampered Primrose Hill puss despite spending his nights terrorising the local wildlife and other cats - and spends his spare time walking on the hill, in the library, and visiting art exhibitions. He's well-known and liked locally, but is a little lonely, and frankly, is looking forward to joining John again some day soon.

Quentin is a French senior manager at an investment firm. Extremely clever. He wear glasses and has a French accent. Used to wear a wedding ring but doesn't anymore. No one really knows much about him - he keeps himself to himself.

Nelly (female)

And the next name is ....

Quentin.

Graham is 70, and having recently retired and watched far too many episodes of Escape To The Country thinks it's high time he chucked in city life for that of the landed gentry. He and wife Pauline are looking for a Grade II heritage-listed cottage on at least 20 acres "so our dog has plenty of room to run around" even tho this ancient hound is at death's door and wants nothing more than to flop in front of the Aga all day. They also want at least six bedrooms "for when the grandchildren come to stay". (They never will.) Graham is ridiculously proud of his new Range Rover, which costs a fortune to fix every time he overturns it in a muddy ditch, which is often.

I forgot to put a name.

Graham

Gertrude is in her fifties and has a Germanic name as her mother loved "The Sound of Music". Gertrude wishes her mother had named her Maria or Louisa or even Gretchen or Liesl instead as she loathes her own name. She's called herself Trudy since she was 13 and can cope with that. Gertrude has worked steadily in administration all her life and is quietly competent and very reliable. Caitlin Moran would say she is a Susan. Gertrude has two grown up children who are steady and sensible She has been happily married to Mark since she was 24 and is hoping to be a grandmother in the next few years. She is content with her life apart from her name.

Oops.

Gertrude

Catherine (54) deliberately speaks quietly so you have to lean in and hear what she's saying. She thinks it lends her an air of mystery but unfortunately all it does is bring people closer to her chronic halitosis.
She is a small boned woman with wrists that look like you could snap them with one twist. She is irrationally proud of their dainty narrowness and wears tiny jingling bracelets to draw attention to them.
She has an affected tinkly laugh which she thinks is charming and flutters her hands around a lot as she talks.
Catherine's mother, who is a demanding harridan, lives with her and needs a lot of care. Catherine loves her mother dearly but most nights locks herself in the bathroom and cries while the shower is running.

Catherine is in her 50s. Bossy and lazy. Made redundant, avoiding getting another job and hoping people Including husband don't notice. Poor husband is stressed from being only earner whilst Catherine attends classes for what she labels self development.

Catherine.

Stuart and Robin are a pain in the arse.
Their mother found it difficult to cope as she had PND after they were born. Their father found it difficult too and spent most of their childhood at work. To try to compensate he asked his overbearing mother to go round ,and help his wife with the child care. His wife hated his mother and really struggled. As a result Robin and Stuart got away with murder. They always did everything together. Went through school together then the same university. They have the same friends and now that they are 35 they live close to each other and socialise together. They are both married to nice women.
They no longer look alike but both dress the same in dull, ordinary clothes and are both losing their hair. They have wishywasy blue/grey eyes, are average height and could do with toning up.
They hold BBQs at each other's house and annoy the neighbours by staying out late and having their guests park all over the street. They are both into IT and people avoid getting into conversation with them as they are quite boring.
The neighbours like their wives though and that is why they appear more popular than they really are.

Dwight is a full time anesthesiologist from Denver, now living in Chipping Norton with his partner Marie, who is Welsh. They are both of average height and are gently good-looking greying blonds with unremarkable tastes in clothing.They met while he was on a Rhodes Scholarship while she was studying at Homerton College - she now teaches one day a week in the village school while studying for an MSc with the Open University. They have 3 children in their early teens, several pets, a lovely (albeit not ostentatious) home and lifestyle.

They are active in their community and very family-orientated. Their friends and neighbours absolutely love them, while secretly thinking they are rather tame and boring. However, Marie and Dwight are very much in love, and also have an absolutely stonking sex life that no-one would guess at (but, why not?)

Next: Stuart & Robin, who are twins.

Amy is 30 years old and lives with her husband and 4 children. She is currently pregnant. Her house is chaotic with all the kids running around plus the 2 dogs and the budgie. There are always piles of clothes in the living room either waiting to be ironed or waiting to be put away.
Amy is a stay at home mum. She did work in a nursery when she left school but as soon as she had her first child she became a SHAM. Her husband Liam works as a car mechanic and is always dirty. Amy is small and round.

Catherine.

Dwight was always in trouble at school. He didn't pass many exams. However he was very good at sport and football in particular. He was spotted by a talent scout as a teenager and now plays for a professional club.
He is 25 and his girlfriend is a YouTube influencer.
With the money he earnt he had his teeth fixed and bought himself a ridiculously expensive sports car. He now lives in a nice house, far removed from the rough streets where he grew up.

Dwight is skinny, American, wears big glasses and had his hair in an awkward centre parting. He looks a bit like a serial killer from the 1970s who you seen in a documentary and think "How did nobody know he was a serial killer? I could tell just from looking at him."

He comes from a very religious family, a serious, unsmiling Christian household, with wooden crosses on white walls who believe that any type of luxury is sinful.

Amy

Helena is 35 and rather gaunt as she has struggled with anorexia ever since she started secondary school. She is always extremely hard on herself. She has dark hair with golden glints, brown eyes and fair skin. She is a talented church musician and belongs to several choral ensembles.

Dwight

Cameron is from up north and he's really proud of it, more so since he moved down south to study fashion design in Brighton. He's gay and loud and kind and funny and eccentric. His close friends call him Cam and he likes drinking cocktails and dancing the night away. He's been single for a long time because he expects true romance and won't settle for any less.

Helena

When Tayla-Jayde was 16, the age her mother was when she was born, she was hugely embarrassed by her misspelled name, her incompetent mother, her poverty stricken home. At sixth form college she reinvented herself as TJ, and was shy and secretive about her background. Now 21, in her final year studying PPE at Oxford, she's Tayla-Jayde again,cool and popular and proud of where she came from and the efforts she's made to get here.

Cameron

Sorry, @inmyslippers, we missed Natasha.

A model and glamour girl in the 1990s, Natasha went through a hard time when her marriage ended and liposuction didn't work. Now in her 50s, she runs an organic market garden that supplies top restaurants. She somehow looks chic in dirty overalls and is often the subject of lifestyle magazine interviews.

Stephanie is a physiotherapist. She wears her hair in a high pony. Her land rover is old and used to belong to her dad. Stephanie gets up every morning at 5am, to sort out the horses before she goes to work.

Matilda

Wow, this is moving fast. I'll do Casper.

Casper is 17, the tall, pale wiry son of Australian parents who watched a lot of British murder mysteries on TV. At his private school in Sydney he surprised everyone by becoming district then state champion in tae kwon do, a ferocious Korean martial art. Quiet and modest, he was gloomily pondering an array of deskbound careers and feeling distinctly underwhelmed -- but now that he has qualified for the Australian Olympics team, perhaps he can put that off for a while.

Tayla-Jayde.