Carah Boden
My blogs
- View From The High Peak
- The Healing Habit
- We Saved Combs School!
- Fridge Food
- The Gardening Habit
- Janet and John Grow Up
Blogs I follow
- *CLOSED* in 2011
- A Mum Shaped Hole
- Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino
- Are We Nearly There Yet Mummy?
- Country Lite
- Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman
- french essence
- Millennium Housewife
- mountainear
- Notes from Inside My Head
- Views from the bike shed
- welsh hills again
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Healer, Writer, Housewife and Mother |
| Location | Village with magnificent views and lots of sheep, High Peak, Derbyshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I never intended to marry an accountant. I never intended to live in England. So quite how I managed to be dragged up to the coldest, greyest, rainiest part of the country in the midst of babies, builders and a black depression is a mystery which I’m still trying to fathom. My question is this: does the southerner become a northerner; do you ever go back south? And do you rebel from a life in the wake of a husband’s career, or do you stick with it, for better or worse? Only time will tell... |
| Interests | Holistic healthcare, writing, photography, horticulture, singing, sketching & painting, travel, cooking, wine, gardening, skiing, tennis, people, languages, living abroad |
| Favorite Movies | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, A River Runs Through It, Babel, Finding Nemo, Ordinary People, Withnail & I, Shrek, The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Top Gun, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Midnight Run, Legends of the Fall, Brief Encounter, Casablanca, Master and Commander, Amelie, The Bridges of Madison County, Along Came Polly |
| Favorite Music | Everything with a great beat or melody or lyrics - and preferably all three Classical - Rachmaninov, Debussy, Ravel, Beethoven, Bach, Handel, Chopin, Mozart and many many others, Smokey jazz and big band, Rat Pack |
| Favorite Books | Mary Plain (a little bear in Berne), Candide (from Voltaire's Contes Philosophiques), The Pardoner's Tale (from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales), King Lear (um, Shakespeare!), Frenchman's Creek (Daphne du Maurier), Jane Eyre, The Lost Continent (Bill Bryson), North and South, L'Etranger (Camus), Le Noed de Viperes (Mauriac), The Go Between, The Bridges of Madison County |
Which is easier to make a model airplane out of and why: a banana peel or a wet sock?
Doh, banana peel of course. Isn't that obvious?