I think the best one line description I've heard to describe me is: 'an extrovert trapped in an introverts body'. I don't think I can really add to that. I'll let you fill in the blanks.

Just like Martin Luther King I had a dream. When I was growing up I wanted to talk to people from other countries. I wanted to write to them. I wanted letters to drop through my letterbox like the inevitable raindrops on wash day. It never happened. I never did get to talk to anyone outside the British Isles.

I grew up and got 'older', but that childlike dream never left me. I still get the buzz of childish glee when I receive a letter through the post, unless it's a bill. Six months ago I found this site and finally my dream became real. I found people from all over the world. People from places I never knew existed and from countries I couldn't find with a sat nav. Now I get letters in my inbox everyday.

I guess I just wanted to take this oppurtunity to say thank you to each and every person I have talked to on here, and also to the people I have yet to talk to.

I'm open to all! except those who put their email address in their first message. I will NOT​ answer you.

Also please forgive me if I view your profile more than once. I have a terrible memory, Honestly my memory's like a....erm...t​hat thing with the holes in it...

writer, poet, literature, music, buying and reading books, real ale, watching rugby league and football, nature, birdwatching​ (not a twitcher though!). I watch TV too, I know it's not a hobby, more like something you do when you can't think of anything else. Would love to travel, but funds aren't available at present. I intend to save money and see the world (or save the world and see money!), even if I have to resort to buying a plastic globe!!

Heather Nova, Arctic Monkeys, The Fratellis, Nirvana, Emiliana Torrini, AC/DC, The Bluetones, Green Day, Skid Row, Counting Crows, The Undertones, Manic Street Preachers, REM, Thea Gilmore, Dean Martin, Tchaikovsky,​ WASP, Fiona Apple, Bob Marley, Metallica, Guns N Roses, Kate Bush, The Pixies, The Clash, Belinda Carlisle, Capercaillie​, The Jam, David Gray, Ms Dynamite, Sheryl Crow, La Roux, Madness, KIX-S, The Killers, Nina Simone....

Anything really.



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Casablanca, Roman Holiday, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, Shaun of the Dead, The Commitments,​ The Money Pit, Fight Club, Star Wars, Hamlet (Zefferelli'​s version), It's a Wonderful Life, Rio Bravo, Month Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Dogma, South Park, Bambi, Romeo & Juliet, Brassed Off, Watership Down, When Harry Met Sally, Drop Dead Fred, The Italian Job, Amelie

Moonlighting​, Auf Wiedershen Pet, literary adaptations,​ Supernatural​, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Simpsons, Shameless, Top Gear, QI, The Young Ones, Blackadder

Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
1984 - George Orwell
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Beach - Alex Garland
Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Trainspottin​g - Irvine Welsh

Currently​ reading:​ Lark Rise - Flora Thompson (It's far far better than the TV series)

Speak not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say - Oscar Wilde

I'm sucked in by the wonder and I'm f****d up by the lies - Heather Nova