Lord of the Rings, Arthur, Master and Commander, Titanic, Little Big Man, Braveheart, Gladiator, Emma, Sense & Sensibility, Now Voyager, musicals, thrillers, weepies. James Dean's 3 films (was besotted with him as a teenager). Anything with Colin Firth in it!

Funk jazz, musical theatre, some classical. Artists such as George Benson, Harvey Mason, Mark Cohn, Al Jarreau, Van Morrison, to name a few.

The Bible, Lord of the Rings, Les Miserables, Jane Eyre, The Old Man and the Sea, Letters From a Nut (hilarious), The Diary of Anne Frank, thrillers, travel books and autobiographies.

Yellow - a happy colour. Adore bright, floral patterns. Nuts about Cath Kidston and Green Gate designs.

Chocolate! Love Japanese food, Chinese food, Italian food, Norwegian food (my mother is from there), Indian food, roast dinners.

Proudest mother on Earth of a nearly-11 year old boy, Joshua, who is the love of my life. Married to Chris for 19 years. Live on the south coast of England. Am half-Norwegian, half-English, so I might pillage your village but will do it politely! :0)

I consider myself a warm and compassionate person and I love making new friends.

I used to work in television but have had the disease fibromyalgia for the last 20 years. But keep myself occupied by looking after my boys.

Honest, genuine people. Good food, a good laugh. The musical "Les Miserables" and the movie "Lord of the Rings" have been real friends when the fibro pain is at its worst. They inspire me to keep going, that better days are ahead.

Shallow people, broken promises.

I am brushing up my French by a c.d. course and watching French t.v. on satellite t.v. I spent the happiest summer of my life in Geneva, Switzerland when a teenager and it is my dream to return one day when well enough.

I am starting to make my own greetings cards and aim to learn to make necklaces and earrings. I also want to do decorative painting, like the 'bauernmalerie' style used in Switzerland, Austria etc.

Like singing along to musical theatre numbers, but the local dog population tends to protest.