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| Introduction | There's either too much or too little to say... so I won't do either. |
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| Interests | art - interior design - architecture - ethnology - wildlife and pet animals (especially cats and birds) - Kenya - Scotland - America - Morocco - Egypt - languages - religion - reading - writing - 'good' films and TV - cloudwatching - tea-drinking - family - companions |
| Favorite Movies | For drama - that sombre but wonderful allegorical play 'The Seventh Seal' - the 1950's original of that title by Ingmar Bergman; for comedy - the charming culture-clash romp 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'. |
| Favorite Music | I like Celtic music - Middle Eastern music - American folk music - Beethoven symphonies and concerti - George Gershwin - Cole Porter - quite a few singers: Maire Brennan - Sarah McLachlan - Jackson Browne - Joan Baez - Dougie MacLean - Phoebe Snow - Paul Simon - Jann Arden - Alanis Morissette - Annie Lennox - Joan Osborne - Georges Moustaki (whom I ADORED in the 1970s!); I used to love the Scottish group Clann an Drumma - now disbanded and partly reformed as Albannach; I like the Irish groups Clannad and The Cranberries; and of course I love the Scottish sentimental and comic favourites sung by Andy Stewart - he was rather uniquely talented. |
| Favorite Books | I like to curl up with 'cosy' mysteries: Agatha Christie - Ngaio Marsh - Dorothy L. Sayers - etc. - or anything set in colonial British East Africa or modern Kenya. However - I'm interested in many things and read a lot of nonfiction as well. |
What's the best time you've ever had licking stamps?
When I was a child, stores gave away 'trading stamps' which one stuck in a booklet and could redeem for useful items and small gifts. That was rather magical at the time. As an adult - putting a stamp on a letter or postcard one is sending from an exotic foreign land represents a 'good time' - because of the setting and because it's a way to reach across time and space.