My blogs

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Gender	Female
Location	Dunedin, New Zealand
Introduction	Background in computing and history. Emigrated from The Netherlands to New Zealand. I love the peace and quiet and natural beauty, but miss European cities and culture. The latter prompts me to shamefully pollute the world with long distance flights, while at home I recycle everything I possibly can.
Interests	Reading, writing, travel, walking, movies, gardening, dogs, knitting, playing flute and harp
Favorite movies	8 1/2, Kagemusha, Howl's Moving Castle, Toy Story I and II, Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis, 1945), Tous les Matins du Monde, Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Feuerwerk (1954), Fanfare (1958)
Favorite music	Haydn Piano Trios, Bach Cello Suites, Cassandra Wilson, Jordi Savall, Hypèrion XXI, Stan Getz, Rachmaninov Vespers, Jacques Brel
Favorite books	War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Don Quixote, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Midnights Children, The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, the novels of Patrick White, Eline Vere (Louis Couperus)