Claire

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation Lecturer
Location Lincoln
Interests Good churches, laughing with friends, going to the theatre, singing, playing the guitar (badly), reading, drinking tea, walking, avoiding reality television
Favorite Movies Studio Ghibli films, Beautiful Mind, The Great Escape, Lord of the Rings etc...I must admit I'm more into TV box sets - Flight of the Conchords, Sharpe, Ashes to Ashes, and recently watched a wonderful HBO series on John Adams
Favorite Music John Wetton, Eric Whitacre, Joaquin Rodrigo, Rachmaninov, Peter Gabriel, Billie Holiday, Simon and Garfunkel, Asia, the softer side of Yes, Mark Knopfler, Seth Lakeman, the Psalms, Morten Lauridsen, Ewan MacColl (inevitably), Karine Polwart, Cara Dillon, not a massive King Crimson fan but do enjoy reading Robert Fripp's slightly mad blog!
Favorite Books Wuthering Heights, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, all books by Elizabeth Gaskell, a bit of Dickens, Alistair MacLeod, the poetry of Blake, Roald Dahl stories, a little Bernard Cornwall, Shakespeare (read aloud), all the naturalist working-class theatre of Scotland, the joys of Brecht, The English Patient