Thanks bloggers.
4 jobs I've had:
Envelope Filler covered in paper cuts.
Young unhappy waitress in a dress too big.
Dressmaker, as my grandmother was before me.
College Lecturer. Has its moments.
4 movies I'd watch over and over:
Apocalypse Now
E.T.
Wild at Heart
The Leopard
4 places I've lived, apart from where I live now:
Scotland – my heart’s in the highlands.
Ibiza – before there was one single concrete block there. Magic.
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Kent, the garden of England
Paris, France
Love it and hate it. Love the D'Orsay. Love the Ile St Louis.
Hate the tourists. Love the vegetable markets. Like the supermarkets and the rue Moutarde and the Brasserie Balzar.
Not too keen on some of those Parisienne shop owners and their sniffy 'Bonjour Madame'.
4 TV shows I love:
I haven’t got a TV, but I've occasionally seen AbFab – pure genius. When I am very old I'm going to be a TV addict and have the History Channel, etc.
Radio 4: The Archers / Dead Ringers / A Good Read
4 places I've been on holiday:
Greece: especially the theatre at Epidavros
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Cornwall: everyone’s favourite
Japan: I was so surprised.
South Africa:
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4 websites I visit daily:
ebay.co.uk – Bad addiction. Just like http://after-so-much-thinking.blogspot.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/Naff, I know. Someone tell me a better site.
http://uk.weather.com/weather/local
http://www.aldaily.com/ Art and Letters Daily. About an eighth of it is brill.
4 favourite foods:
This is sooooooooo hard. It would depend on the mood, the weather, whatever. I have to have a little stash of hidden chocolate somewhere, but I don’t have to have it every day. Just every other day. It is a crucial food somehow. What follows doesn’t mean I don’t like vegetables because I do. I just LOVE them, all of them, especially green ones. And need them, always did. Just think of rocket salad, roast parsnips, gazpacho. Oh well, here goes for today:
Oysters
Cold roast potatoes with salt.
Goose like they do it in Hungary.
Syllabub.
4 places I'd rather be right now:
Anywhere in the world with a lot of my family around me.
Sitting in her sitting room with my best friend, but she’s dead.
In a jacuzzi or warm sea.
At the opera with a nice man.
4 books I enjoy re-reading:
Homer, The Iliad. I just love it. I can read it on the beach in Greece. Funny, as I don’t like The Odyssy. I like the way the gods turn their faces to them in The Iliad.
Tove Jansson, The Summer Book. Perfection, and my values entirely.
W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. Whenever I read him I wonder why I ever read all the trash I do.
Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie. She's probably my favourite living writer.
4 CDs that never leave my rotation:
Scholl, Heroes – all Handel.
Haydn, Nelson Mass / Vivaldi Gloria on same album
Mauricio Pollini playing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto
Abba, Greatest hits. Keeps me cheerful.
4 people I'm tagging:
Bella of http://slapoftheday.blogspot.com/
http://www.imaybeknittingaranchhouse.com/
http://www.jennydiski.typepad.com/
I have now lost the ability to tag people. Wish I wasn't so inept!
But there WILL BE MORE. I am just learning to be a blogger in 2007. Oh how I am loving it.
2 comments:
Oban did it for me.But then being half MacDonald i think i always had a feeling for Scotland.And imagine Oban has palm trees outside the hotel we stayed at,Amazing
Don't get me started, Stephen! I heard that they are thinking of making Mull a national marine park and that will make the tourists flood in. Why can't 'they' ever leave anything alone? Mull is MINE ALL MINE.
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