my girl, my boy, my man, my family, my friends...people who make things happen, people who care, people who survive
Ambitions
a ballet dancer (well, that wasn't ever going to happen! )
to be happy and make others happy ( i know...but it is true)
Interests And Hobbies
Arts/Museums Business/Networking Books Writing Food/Cooking/Dining Out Computers Hobbies Nature Pets The Great Outdoors Gardening/Landscaping Celebrities/Gossip Films Television Music/Classical Music/Contemporary Nightclubs/Dancing Performing Arts Indoor Games Sport Politics/Current Events Religion/Spiritual Shopping Travel/Sightseeing Antiques And Collectables
i never seem to have the time
If I Wasn't Me
A Single Thought
Likes And Dislikes
champagne, music, candlelight, the sea, sandy beaches, england, berlin (so many memories), lesotho, south africa, being with my family and friends, pizza in bed...dancing with my man, hearing my children laugh, radio 4, the archers
a bench in east hendred where i drank champagne, a beach in the seychelles where you can lie in a hammock and look at the sea (bliss), curled up on the sofa with my family around me, a balcony in cannes watching the world go by and drinking wine with my friends
blue
smoked salmon, sea bass, langoustines at gigis restaurant in the algarve, my mother's roast dinners, chocolate, ice cream
trapped in a lift
champagne
more champagne
arrogant, thoughtless people, cruelty
Music
ooh..too difficult..love nick drake..he means a lot to me..amy winehouse, rufus wainwright, rickie lee jones, jewel..good day (and yes it was)..will get back to this..adore music..all kinds..cannot live without it
Television
i like docs and lifestyle tv.. flog it, cookery programmes, the restaurant, bbc classic serials, midsommer murders (doesn't he feel a bit guilty about the number of people who die regularly?), the old stuff like morecombe and wise, excellent american series like six feet under...
Reading
The Time Traveller's Wife ( i truly love it), Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy..can't live without books either
Pets
My darling Nellie (I will never forget you), Sweet, Cheeky, Harry, Monty and Muttley
Wildlife
Tigers and Lions or do I mean Leos?
Snakes (are they wildlife?)
Sports
football, tennis, swimming (especially swimming)
boxing, cricket (i really don't get it and i tried)
Travel
france, germany, italy, austria, spain, portugal, morocco, tunisia, seychelles, mauritius, comores, kenya, south africa, lesotho, thailand, malaysia, hong kong, ireland, new york, florida, washington, california, new mexico, vancouver, new england, zimbabwe, las vegas
who knows?
Memories
holding my children for the first time, meeting my man, sunshine days by the sea
can't go there right now..
leading the chorus through the fireplace on to the stage in belle of new york because i am so short i thought it was a door...there have been many such moments..just ask my sister
subtitling my first film..teaching drama in africa..reporting for the bbc..doing what i am doing now