CURRENT MISSION

To be idle and have a happy life, rather than rush around and be too busy to enjoy it!

ABOUT ME

I'm a 31 year old part time student, studying the history of science and medicine and living in East London.

PHILOSOPHY

Blackadder: I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By offering people the use of my couch. At the moment I am too ill to have couchsurfers around, as I need to rest and have quiet,but as soon as I am better I'll be inviting chaos and world travelers to my house to eat veggie bolognese.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted lots of people, met couchsurfers and organised some of the couchsurfer social nights in my former home town of Lancaster.

Interests

Knitting and crafts, making my own clothes, guinea pig squeak appreciation, learning stuff, sitting in the sun, imagining, watching dvds, running people down in my wheelchair, being forgetful, enjoying not having to go to work, not enjoying when i can't move my arms, sleeping all day, drinking coffee,
reading, listening to Radio 4, writing (current topic, strange seaside attractions of bygone days), photography, reading comics, making things, bad jokes which no-one else laughs at, learning to play ukulele, baking cakes, making friends wear fake mustaches for my own amusement, anything kitsch, my collection of things in the shape of fruit which are also other things (for example banana maracas or pineapple shaped ice buckets)

• arts
• writing
• photography
• wine
• cheese
• coffee
• baking
• running
• drinking
• crafts
• clothing
• comics
• reading
• knitting
• history
• medicine
• science
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

On Tv: BBC 4, documentaries, Blackadder, Dr Who, The Moomins.
Favorite Movies: Adpatation, Goodbye Lenin, Barbarella, Vertigo, Breakfast at Tiffany's, the Wizard of Oz, Chung King Express, all Coen brothers, Michel Gondry & Jarmusch films, All Jean-Pierre Jeunet (director of Amelie) films ,Spirited Away, The Dreamers, The Edukators, Being John Malkovich, Breathless, Freaks, Logans Run, Soylent Green, 28 days later, Shaun of the Dead, The Cats Mieow, Bright young things, Sleeper, Annie hall, all zombie films.
Favorite Books: The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas, Bliss by Peter carey, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, The Men who stare at goats by Jon Ronson, In Praise of Slow by Carl Honore; How to be Idle / How to be Free & The Idler's companion by Tom Hodgkinson; Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson; The Fountain at the Centre of the World by Robert Newman; Number9dream & Ghostwritten & Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell; Popco, by Scarlett thomas; American Gods by Neil Gaiman; lots of Agatha Christie; 100 years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Margrave of the Marshes by john peel & the pig, I could go on, I have a lot of favourite books!
Favourite Music:
Jacque Brel, Joanna Newsom, The Beach Boys, The beatles, CSS, Scot Walker, Half man half biscuit, Violent Femmes, Camera Obscura, Belle & Sebastian, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Blur, Pulp, The raconteurs, the white stripes, Nick Cave, Grinderman, Areatha franklin, Ella fitzgerald, strange folk, the Go! Team, Emilie Autumn, Crystal Castles, Florence and the Machine, Tom Waits

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most beautiful pink sunsets over the sea at Fleetwood. In early summer, when there are a few fluffy clouds to reflect the light, I could see the sunset beginning and rush from my house down to the beach with my flat mate and a bottle of wine to enjoy the free entertainment that nature provides.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd like to learn another language and how to play ukelele properly. I can teach people how to knit. I think everyone should learn the art of the flaneur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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