Gender	Female
Occupation	Layabout
Location	New Zealand
Introduction	Fighting creeping decrepitude and chronic insomnia, living a back-to-basics lifestyle on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand. Prone to unwise internet shopping at 3am after drinking too much wine.
Interests	Art lover, wine lover, reading, gardening, eating, cooking (especially the things I grow myself), lying down, daydreaming and building castles in the air, films: especially classic Westerns
Favorite movies	What's eating Gilbert Grape, Life of Brian, Groundhog Day, Local hero, Princess Bride, The station agent, The outlaw Josie Wales, Sense & Sensibility, Lawrence of Arabia
Favorite music	Van Morrison, Dixie Chicks, Leonard Cohen, Little Feat (Lowell George era), Richard Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Tim Minchin, R.E.M., Ry Cooder, Neil Young, Johnny Clegg, and whatever I happen to be listening to.
Favorite books	A short walk in the Hindu Kush is my favourite travel book, I read a lot of crime fiction, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Reginald Hill, Stuart Pawson, Peter Robinson, Marian Keyes, Alexander McCall Smith, Georgette Heyer. I'll read anything, if I don't have a book handy I get twitchy. Lately I've started reading romance and I am currently devouring Loretta Chase's Regencies.

All of the phone numbers have fallen out of your address book. Whose number do you look for first and why?

My own - I'm absent minded.