My name is Emma and I am a 30 year old woman from the UK, living in Ireland. My grandfather was from Ireland, so I guess you can say I have returned 'home'.

I'm easy going, I love to laugh and am perhaps slightly eccentric. I love to write to people of all walks of life from all cultures. I love snail mail best, but e-mail is great too.

I'm looking for e-pals or snailmail pals. I don't really use msn or skype, sorry.

I am fluent in English and have beginners Japanese and French. I would like to be able to practice my Japanese and French, as I am losing them through lack of use.

I think currently my abilities would be very limited though, so you'd have to be patient!

Music, movies, reading, paranormal investigation, creative writing, poetry fashion, travel, meeting up with friends, sight seeing, arts and crafts, comedy, internet, learning salsa and bellydance, couchsurfing, swimming, badminton, history,1960s, Burlesque and Retro, archeology, anthropology, the paranormal, criminology, Japan and Japanese language, cooking and much more

All kinds of music: Pop, Jazz, Bossa nova, funk, rock, 1960s etc. Artists include: The Beatles, John Lennon, Kaiser Cheifs, Nouvelle Vague, Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian, The Kinks, Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Diana Krall, Amy Winehouse,Gwen Stefani, Lily Allen, Jamie Cullum, Jane Monheit, Mika, Lene Marlin, Beck, Beth Orton, Bjork, Coldplay, The Corrs, The Cranberries, Eva Cassidy, Dido, Artic Monkeys, Mr Children, Wong Faye, Ua, Coco, Cornelious, Matti Kaspi, The Killers, The Fratellis,  Isobel Campbell, The Last Shadow Puppets,  Franz Ferdinand, Reverend and the Makers, Coralie Clement, Goldfrapp, Diana Krall, NKOTB (my guilty pleasure)

Bridget Jone's Diary, Roman Holiday, Little Bigman, The Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Whale Rider, Totoro, Amélie, Chocolat, Delicatessen, The Goonies, The Last Samurai, Legend, Blood on Satan's Claw, Pirates of the Caribbean, Belle Vue Rendezvue, Up Pompeii, Carry on Screaming, A Private Function, The Yellow Rolls Royce, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Kramer versus Kramer, Walk the Line,  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Green Mile, Bedazzeled (original 1960s version.)

Little Britain, The League of Gentlemen, Peep Show, Spaced, Red Dwarf, Father Ted, Bottom, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Friends, Greenwing, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Sex and the City, Spaced, Hyperdrive, Mind Your Language, Most Haunted, Blackbooks, IT Crowd, Dr Who, Time Team, The Flight of the Conchords, The Mighty Boosh, Carnivale, Pushing Daisies, Ugly Betty, Futurama, Two and a Half Men, Mock the Week, Scrubs, Monkey Dust, QI

The Lord of the Rings, anything by Terry Pratchett, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Chocolat, The Da Vinci Code, Wild Swans, Whale Rider, Norwegian Wood, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Harry Potter, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Historian, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The God Delusion, Frankenstein, Oscar Wilde, poetry of Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barret Browning, C.S Lewis, Pablo Neruda, Carol Ann Duffy and Sylvia Plath.

"A life without love is like a year without summer." -Swedish proverb.

"My brain hurts!"- Gumby

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn

"'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all" - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living." -Terry Pratchett

"Don't panic!" Douglas Adams