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Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	hiding.
Location	london, United Kingdom
Introduction	bookish, annoying, stubborn. can talk for ages, generally accompanied by wavey hand gesticulations, and, sometimes, pointing. own an estimated 4500 books. roughly.
Interests	books, tweed, words, monster munch, late 30s early 40s, vintage, boggle, the smiths, procrastination, dartmoor, dictionaries, secretly racing people as i walk along the street, fencing, camping, swimming outdoors, sarcasm, rooks, wakling fast, ranting, private Eye, Englishness, brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable, illustration, good manners, etymology, waving my hands about, zombies, running really fast, quietitude, men with moustaches, arguing, broadsheet newspapers, politics, guido fawkes, shiney things, being annoying, the saturday telegraph, latin, people who can raise one eyebrow, wagner, wool jumpers, hunting bags, Antidisestablishmentarianism, i own a (sadly non working) early 50s wooden tv, vintage shoes, architecture, fairisle, teasing vegans, norse mythology, welsh balnkets, running about in the countryside, sleeping, being right, eating cheese, swearing, crossing the road wherever i want to, old films, wacom, black cabs, the fold down seats in black cabs, marlboro lights, nationalised public services, writing lists, coastal paths, aspergers, my mac laptop, hunter wellies, desmond tutu, the 19th century, quilting, world war two, (it was SUCH fun!!) enamel ware, arguing about politics, dark pubs, clothes horses, ..... ............. i am learning Latin with glacial slowness, and i drink neither coffee nor tea. i can't drive, i have no desire to go to sodding india, i dont like hackney, or brixton. and no, i am not on facebook. ........... life is pretty much books music and- uh- some other things.
Favorite Movies	love tv too- alan partridge, the thick of it, peepshow, phoenix nights, black books, HIGNFY, skins, rev, 8 out of 10 cats, this week, glee, newsnight, the camomile lawn, miss marple, catweazle, the muppets, blackadder, marmalade atkins, brideshead, jeeves and wooster, the owl service, dangermous, moomins, now voyager, suspicious, gaslight, the lady vanishes, rebecca, return of the cat people, dark victory, gone with the wind, brief encounter, the fallen idol, ministry of fear, mrs minniver, mr blandings builds a dream house, went the day well?, wicked lady, day of the jackal, the third man, the borne trilogy, the 39 steps, the ipcress file, the manchurian candidate, north by north west, invaders from mars, here we go round the mulberry bush, the pleasure girls, daisies, lover come back, catch us if you can, dr strangelove, morgan- a suitable case for treatment, carnival of souls, night of the demon, dracular, kind hearts and coronets, clockwork orange, the wickerman, great expectations, the spiral staircase, withnail and i, the go between, big, star wars, return of the jedi, breaking glass, trainspotting, ghostbusters, pretty in pink, blazing saddles, breakfast club, the man with two brains, indiana jones, pulp fiction, sleeper, the talented mr ripley, teenwolf, four weddings, goonies, rocky horror, life of brian. i have no interest whatsoever in modern film, though, i love kermode & mayo's film reviews. its my fave radio of the week. ever. i do NOT like amelie.
Favorite Music	oh!, the smiths, '....always', and too many others to mention..., but i'll have a bash..., (in no particular order) the ramones, the buzzcocks, joy division, the cure, the creation, led zep, sarah records, the orchids, the stooges, the pastels, the sundays, thee headcoatees, the wedding present, the cocteau twins, the thanes, 60s psychedelia, beatles, the rolling stones, tallulah gosh, postcard records, beach boys, the mamas and papas, the field mice, florence and the machine, fleet foxes, mighty mighty, bobby darin, 40s big band, the bodines, the flatmates, the orchids, the go betweens, 30s dance hall, organ music, brass bands, a broad church, essentially. i dont like that widdelly widdelly jazz stuff, i go to the opera more than gigs...., and I LISTEN TO, 6MUSIC!!!, mayo and kermode's film review, (not music.... but...you know, it's 'listening'). i have synesthesia, and wagner sets it of SOOOO well. classical stuf- sigh-, endless list- tallis, vaughn williams, mozart, wagner, elgar, rachmaniov, shostakovich, greig, beethoven, mahler, britten schubert, ; the usual suspects, frankly. and, chopin, choral work...., bach, etc..., C86.
Favorite Books	ooooh--- authors, again, in no order..., p.g. wodehouse, e.m. delafeild, dr seuss, john buchan, lewis carroll, nancy mitford, graham greene, jessica mitford, c.s. lewis, alan garner, evelyn waugh, agatha christie, john wyndham, roald dahl, j.k. rowling, enid blyton, oscar wilde, john le carre, sapper, arthur conan doyle, daphne du maurier, evelyn smith, angela brazil, a.a. milne, betty macdonald, lots of poetry, im such a damn cliché.

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