My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	teacher/writer/mother/philosopher/domestic goddess
Location	Bristol, United Kingdom
Introduction	I teach, write, cook, and most importantly, I'm a mother. I always try to do everything perfectly and always fall short. I am therefore always disappointed. Go figure.
Interests	writing, reading, thinking, ranting about politicians and the inadequacies of modern life, dancing, singing, cooking, eating, drinking, watching TV and films
Favorite movies	Some Like it Hot, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Harold and Maude, Memento, Witness, Twelve Angry Men, The Philadelphia Story, Strictly Ballroom, Raising Arizona, Funny Face, Amelie, Fargo
Favorite music	Angie - (the only song I like by) the Rolling Stones, Housemartins, Proclaimers, Vespers - Monteverdi, Symphony No 5 - Mahler, Handbags and Gladrags - Stereophonics , Damien Rice, Del Amitri, Divine Comedy, A Piece of my Heart - Janis Joplin, Kirsty MacColl, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Beth Orton, Amy Macdonald, Mozart, Verdi, Donizetti, Pandolfi
Favorite books	Life of Pi by Yann Martell, Candide by Voltaire, anything by PG Wodehouse, Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Wild Swans by Jung Chan, Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, The Collected Silences of Doctor Murke by Heinrich Boell, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Unlike a dog, how can a turtle ever be naked?

Dogs aren't naked - they have fur coats. It's the turtle who's naked, but he's entitled to be so in his own house.