Meet the gurgle team!
Pettrina Keogh - Managing Director
Won first prize dressed as the Weetabix man when she was six
Can't bare to touch/hear polystyrene, "it makes my hair stand up on the back of my neck"
Favourite meal is lamb shanks with parsnip mash
Was nicknamed 'funky gibbon' at school
Craved salt and vinegar crisp sandwiches with ketchup during pregnancy
Roz Stoyel - Commercial Director
Once took her bag of rubbish to work with her on the train before realising that she'd forgotten to put it in the dustbin on her way out of her house
Can't resist Percy Pigs
Hates anchovies and artichokes
After reading the book 'The Island" By Victoria Hislop, she dragged her husband off to Crete
Her favourite film is It's a wonderful life - "Jimmy Stewert gets me every time - mind you, so does Cary Grant!"
Nifa McLaughlin - Editor
Is seven minutes older than her identical twin Nishan
Appeared for 3 seconds in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace as an alien with her twin
Can't decide which is best; her mum's roast or her mum's lamb curry...
Her Indian Grandmother was 'Miss Hibiscus' on the Fiji Islands in the fifties
Is married to an Irishman and has two daughters who she adores!
Can't see the point of margarine and insists on butter in the McLaughlin household
Chris Deary - Community Manager
Was once rescued by the fire brigade after getting his head stuck in some railings in BlackpoolWas 6ft tall by the time he was 12. Is still 6ft tall, but considerably wider.
Is learning to speak Chinese.
Believes passionately that gymnastics is not a real sport
Is possibly the only human being alive who doesn't enjoy firework shows. "Seen one, you've seen them all"
Sasha Lyne - Assistant Editor
Ate so many frogs legs traveling back on the QE2 when she was five that she had an upset tummy for about a weekFlooded the bathroom (and ruined all the carpets) with her friend when they were four, whilst her parents were eating a thanksgiving meal next door
Whilst heavily pregnant with her daughter, she went to an Asterix themed party as Obelisk - "Some people didn't realise I was pregnant"
Is addicted to magazines and buys several every week
Is obsessed with ketchup - "I put it on everything"
Sarah Hughes - Campaign Executive
Loved running around naked (when she was little) dressed in nothing but her Dad's work bootsFirst childhood memory was sitting on her Dad's shoulders as they both sang 'Baby Jane' by Rod Stewart at the top of their lungs
Once cleared up everyone's desks when she was left alone in the office one afternoon
Is ashamed of her love for trashy novels
Paul Hazells - Senior Developer
Was born in West Africa and raised by hippie parents; "we also lived in Norway and Indonesia for a time"In the 80's was a bit of a Goth and in the 90's a hardcore junglist, now a boring dad of 3
Once won 1st prize in a nose playing competition
Was once blown up by a car bomb in Finchley (and survived!)
Always wanted to be an astronaut and loves anything to do with space and cosmology
Would do nothing but eat curry and write code all day if I didn't have such a wonderful family to bring me back down to Earth
Annabel Redmayne - Office Manager
Is proud to admit that she's never tasted teaOnce went trekking for a week in New Zealand and only took apples and biscuits, "Luckily I met some well prepared Germans who shared their frankfurters and Sauerkraut!"
Is very competitive - never lets her children win, "maybe I should once or twice"
Loves cats but is terrified of mice
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