jonquille
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Lyon, France |
| Introduction | I would like to say that I am three things; witty, graceful and gracious. But in fact am a big ball of dyspraxic confusion, liable to spill your drink, likely to put my foot in it, probably break something....but all served up with a big smile and general resignation! left Britain to pursue life and happiness in France three years ago, and so far, so good....only one hospital visit this year, and no civilian collateral damage. |
| Interests | most things are interesting..., fine art, palaeontology (seriously), jazz warbling, the primeval confusion of Man and Woman, everyone else's business, BBC radio 4, The Mighty Boosh, cooking, gardening, ranting, friend collecting, boyfriend losing, monkey watching, swedish re-education programme, fashion, dyspraxics anonymous, life/health/klutz insurance, science education (geeks are cool), liberal politics, environmentalism, sense-of-humour-development (regardless of life's knocks) |
| Favorite Movies | Zorba the Greek, Gone with the Wind, The Maltese Falcon, film noir, Run Lola Run, Blythe Spirit, The Deer Hunter, The Third Man, Harold and Maude, La Belle et La Bete, The Last Temptation of Christ, Beetle Juice, Kung Fu hustle, Ice Storm, Festen, The Idiots, Father Goose, All About Eve, How to Marry a Millionaire |
| Favorite Music | jazz, jazz, jazz, Bach, Moneybrother, french variété, electronica, drum and bass, Carlos Vives, Random Happy Latin Music (especially dodgy meregue) Purcell, Motown, leonard cohen, Elvis, Wagner, Baroque, Amadou and Miriam, you name it- I like it etc etc etc |
| Favorite Books | Travels with my aunt - Graham Greene, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Loos, War and Peace - Tolstoy, Brave New World - Huxley, The Voyage of the Beagle - Darwin, Going Naked is the Best Disguise - Jacobi, Les Ailes de Courage - Sand, Paradise Lost - Milton, 501 French Verbs - Kendris, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Orphee - Cocteau, Midnight's Children - Rushdie, Love in the Time of Cholera - Marquez, Great Apes - Will Self, The Decameron, Narciss and Goldmunde - Hesse, The Flounder - Grass, Dinosaur in a Haystack - Gould, my sister's unpublished book, ...ok have to stop now! |