Gender	Female
Location	United Kingdom
Introduction	I am not Cinna the conspirator.
Interests	Music, Violin, Perfume, Fantasy Literature, History, Classics, Anthropology, Archaeology, Folklore, Travel, Mythology, Pre-Raphaelites, Eastern Europe, Balkans, Ceilidh, Languages, Photography.
Favorite movies	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, A Very Long Engagement, Bal-Can-Can, Sweeney Todd, Beetlejuice, Bill & Ted, Amelie, The Princess Bride, Pan's Labyrinth, MicMacs, O Brother Where Art Thou, Fargo, Hot Fuzz, Ko To Tamo Peva, Good Bye Lenin!.
Favorite music	Regina Spektor, Ghost Bees, La Plebe, Vermillion Lies, Tom Waits, Hannah Fury, Kate Bush, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Bellowhead, Emilie Autumn, Amanda Palmer, Smoke Fairies, Eliza Carthy, Within Temptation, Tri Yann, Dino Merlin, The Paperboys, Marina and the Diamonds, The Dresden Dolls, The Cure, Bella Hardy, Verka Serduchka, The Birthday Massacre, Kerfuffle, Dazkarieh, Nolwenn Leroy, Kalyi Jag, Modena City Ramblers, Stromae, Billy Bragg, Dikanda, Dubioza Kolektiv, Omnia, Rapalje, Sofia Jannok, Caprice, Dilek Koç, Cheb Khaled, Putokazi, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Ternipe, Juanes, Bagad Kemper, Ludovico Einaudi, Balkan Beat Box, La Pegatina, Gogol Bordello.
Favorite books	The Gardener From Ochakov, Death and the Penguin, Othello, Richard II, The Sandman, Neverwhere, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The End of Mr Y, PopCo, Much Ado About Nothing, Jane Austen, Diana Wynne Jones, The Black Magician, Journey's End, Anna Karenina, Artemis Fowl, 1984, Marie Antionette: The Journey, Heart of Darkness, The Count of Monte Cristo, Othello, Richard II, The Three Musketeers, Jorge Luis Borges, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Seven Devils, Montmorency, Julie Hearn, Tintin, Abhorsen Trilogy, Rivers of London, Burton & Swinburne.

Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?

Whistling with wood.