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My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Cheryls * Cottage * Home
- Derbyshire Days
- Evelyn and Rose
- Happy Go Loopy
- InspiringTutus
- Maison Douce
- POR AMOR AL ARTE
- Positively Organic
- THE IDIOT GARDENER
- the velvet ribbon journal
- The WriggleButts
- Welcome to Boxwood Cottage
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Homemaker (with a desire to be a Funeral Director) |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Hi My name is Jo, I am a forty something stay at home Mum, and live in a lovely (but high maintenance) Victorian cottage with my husband Andy and our 17 year old son Louis, as well as 6 Pugs, one cat, seven chickens (three rescue ones), a house tortoise and a water salamander! I originally trained as a General Nurse in the 80's, then after the birth of my son returned to education, completing an Honours degree in Criminal Justice Studies and Sociology and then a Post Graduate Certificate in Education before going on to teach in an adult male prison (which I loved). I really always wanted to become a Funeral Director. I adore vintage and antique textiles and am a mad collector of mainly 20's and 30's costume and textiles. I also have a collection of vintage mannequins that are slowly but surely taking over every room in the cottage. Hope you enjoy my postings and please feel free to leave comments I love reading them. Jo xx |
| Interests | Vintage textiles, Pug dogs, My Aga, gardening, being a petrol head in my Chrysler 300C, sewing, quilting, drawing, going out for walks, renovating our cottage, Collecting antique bears, Winston Churchill and collecting memorabilia about him, Poirot (has to be David Suchet), Sir John Betjeman |
| Favorite Movies | Valentino, The Night Porter, Swimming Pool, Dads Army, Metropolis 1926, The Railway Children, Cabaret, The Gathering Storm, Genevieve, The Titfield Thunderbolt, White Christmas, White Mischief (love Sarah Miles), Operation Amsterdam, Atonement, Coming Home, Nancherrow, The House of Eliot, The Camomile Lawn, all the Carry On Films, anything starring Hattie Jacques |
| Favorite Music | Kraftwerk, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, most music from the 60's, Kasabian, Jools Holland, Trad Jazz, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Philip Glass, Sir John Taverner, It has to Be Bing at Christmas! Syd Barrett, Paul Robeson, Al Bowlly |
| Favorite Books | The Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill, The Darling Buds of May, Garlands Galore (written by a wonderful elderly man I nursed many years ago), Coming Home, Nancherrow, The Shell Seekers, any books by Christina Strutt |
That can't really be a fish you're standing on, can it?
Yes it's my new soles!!