Eternal Optimist

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About me

Gender Female
Location Portree, Isle of Skye, United Kingdom
Introduction Well..what can I say?! I'm 47yrs young, Mum to 3 daughters..all of whom will feature large in this blog despite their protests! I live on the Isle of Skye with my youngest daughter, Yasmin,and my Dad, Lachie, joined our household in July this year. We also have 2 cats..Leo & John...John is actually a girl but that is a whole other story..blog..in itself!
Interests Reading, Radio Scotland/Radio 4, iPlayer, Sleeping/Cat Napping, Chardonnay, Music, Poetry, Contemporary & Crime fiction, Criminology, Current Affairs, General knowledge, History, Learning New Things, Socialising, Social sciences, Gerard Butler, Stephen Fry, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard, Denis Leary, Sylvia Plath
Favorite Movies The Lion King, Dead Poets Society, 300, American Beauty, American History X, Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story, El Norte, Salvador, One from the Heart, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dear Frankie
Favorite Music Teddy Pendergrass, Billie Holiday, Brooke Benton, Dinah Washington, Erykah Badu, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Solomon Burke, Tom Jones, Lady Gaga, Cerys Matthews, Morcheeba, Al Green, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye
Favorite Books My favourite authors include:Kate Atkinson, Linda Castillo, Anne Cleeves, Isla Dewar, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Hardy, Linda Gillard, Stuart MacBride, Alexander McCall Smith, Val McDermid, Stuart Maconie, L.M. Montgomery, Toni Morrison, Ian Rankin