Kiss My Art
My blogs
- Homage To Edward Lear
- Reborn: After Shock
- Pleasing Poetry
- Hillimericks! by Simon R. Gladdish.
- Narcissists, Nerds And Nutters
- Back To Basics
- Bloglit: The Sea of Trees
- The Sloth Diaries
- The Sloth Diaries Continued
- The Inheritance Powder.
- blogartgallery
- The Dog, The Bitch and The Christmas Tree
- Victorian Values by Simon R Gladdish
- Original Cliches
- The Sea of Trees: Aikogahra
- Images of Istanbul
- The Poisoned Tunic by Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilev
- The Sloth in Gay Paree!
- Torn Tickets and Routine Returns
- The Tiny Hunchbacked Horse
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | English Language teacher |
| Location | Swansea Intl, West Glamorgan Wales, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I am a retired English language teacher. I'm married with three adult children. We live in two 19th century cottages clinging to a wet welsh hillside. I have been painting and writing seriously for the last ten years. My husband Simon has published eight books of poetry including a translation of a Russian children's folk tale and book of vey funny limericks. Our jobs as English as a foreign language teachers have taken us a far as Spain, France,Tunis, Kuwait and Istanbul where we have lived and worked and absorbed the local culture. Painting has taken over my life and I paint anything and everything. I'm essentially a colourist. Recently I decided to publish some of my short stories in serial form in my blog. They are all copyrighted and have appeared on other web sites and in a couple of magazines. For those of you you who have time to read them I hope they amuse you. |
| Interests | Painting, writing(short stories and novels) |
| Favorite Movies | Amelie, Etre Y Avoir, Jean de Florette and Mannon de Source, Le Choriste, Jule et Jim, Habla con Ella, American Beauty, Gosforth Park |
| Favorite Music | Elgar Adagios, Faure's Requiem and Durufle, Rachmaninov Trio Elegiaque No2, Mozart's Requiem, Don Giovanni. Operas. Tosca, Madame Butterfly, The Pearl Fishers and Carmen, Debussy, Berlioz, Vaughn Williams and practically all classical music. |
| Favorite Books | Phillip Roth:Portnoy's complaint, Pastoral, Letting Go, John Updike: All the Rabbit books ++ Iris Murdoch The Sea, Henry & Cato, The Book and the Brotherhood, Accidental Man and Message to the planet, Under the net. Saul Bellow: Hanging Man, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog++++Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dharma Bums and On the Road (Kerouac). All of the novels of Joanne Harris writer of Choclat, Holy Fools, Five Quarters of an Orange, Coastliners etc.All of Emile Zola. All of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Chekov. |
When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?
Yes