Ally

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Non-Profit
Occupation Development Manager for a charity
Location The West Country, United Kingdom
Introduction chilled character, calm in a crisis, love to laugh, love to make others laugh, try not to be materiastic (fail badly every time i step into ikea), like to think about ecological matters, politics, social justice, v. involved in the make poverty history debate/action, deep deep person mixed with lightheartedness, like to think about things, very approachable, good listener (what did you say ?!).....
Interests gardening: growing my own veg, being creative and transforming my environment, being surrounded by trees; coreographing colour, something amazing happens when i put my hands in soil... reading: bible, poetry, the whole world is a text (postmodernism)... photography: don't get round to doing enough music: have to start each day dancing
Favorite Movies Carlito's Way, anything with Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland has me in floods of tears every time, Wallace and Grommit!!; Pride and Prejudice, Vanity Fair, Chocolat
Favorite Music Snow Patrol (reflects my soul); Macy Gracy (reflects my heart!); Massive Attack (gets me moving); Goldfrapp (my naughty side); love a good beat. at the moment very taken with justin timberlake's what goes around comes around... and macy gray's new cd BIG...Cheryl Lynn Got to Be Real (70's disco)... Cocteau Twins, Martina Topley-Bird, Amy Whinehouse, Groove Armada, U2, Scritti Politi/Mos Def, hip hop dancing sessions, Paul Wellar
Favorite Books Hinds Feet on High Places, Mountains of Spices, Winged Life (Hannah Hurnard), Pride and Prejudice, We - Zamyatin, Master and Margherita - Bulgakov, The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett, Song of Songs - Watchman Nee, Jazz - Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou poetry, Anna Akhmatova poetry, Kahlil Gibran - all writings, Shakespeare plays and sonnets- esp Othello and Merchant of Venice, and many many more......

Why do you think honeydew is the money melon?

is that a rhetorical question ?