The Notebook; Second Hand Wedding : The World's Fastest Indian.

Vivaldi through to the romantic composers. Ballads R&B and little bit of country,Jazz, Swing, Opera. Not very keen on classical modern composers.I enjoy Musicals like Cats, Phatom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Buddy Holly, the King and I, 42nd Street, etc etc.

My favourite Authors are:
Tessa Barclay : David Baldacci : Barbara Bradford Taylor : Mary Higginson Clark : Nicholas Evans : James Follet : Dick Francis : Colin Forbes : Sue Grafton : John Grisham : Jack Higgins : Joanna Trollope : Rosamund Pilcher: James Patterson : Anita Shrive

I love colour and playing around with combinations of colour - not so keen on really garish colours.

Salmon and just about everything else.

I am a retired school teacher happily married to my husband of 53 years, mother of 4 and grandmother to 6 - 4 in NZ and 2 in US -
My teaching career covered 30 years in Primary (elementary) school education and I specialised in Music.

Home, family, friends, music, reading, travel- especially home exchanging, computer, making cards, scrapbooking, sewing and embroidery,
cooking trying out new recipes,cooking for family and friends, tasting new and different foods when travelling

Contemporary classical music and composers. People who abuse children. I don't like what is happening in our education systems.

Card making and scrapbooking, cooking, embroidery.