CURRENT MISSION

Perfectly happy just lurching from one 24 hours to the next. Never felt the need to have a mission statement.

ABOUT ME

Short, blonde, well past sell by date and specialise in baggy clothes to hide the saggy bits.

PHILOSOPHY

Too hard a question. I don't have a philosophy - just live and enjoy it and stop worrying about philosophies.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

In what? Life? Well with 5 kids plus a few adopted / fostered and otherwise acquired ones together with 7 grandchildren, I think I have done my bit to reverse the demographic down turn

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't couch surfed myself (well, not formally) but my children did, so it's kind of payback time. With so many children (and their friends) plus my own friends plus rugby weekends - I have always had loads of people crashing out here. Includes an entire band plus roadies doing a gig in my son's pub for a weekend, 10 people for the Heineken Cup and anything from 14 - 20 after a party.

Interests

Reading, real ale, wine, antiques, buying far too much on ebay, my job (strangely enough), gardening (not that you'd think so looking at it at the moment), computers, cooking....

• writing
• education
• cooking
• wine
• partying
• pub crawls
• gardening
• clothing
• technology
• reading
• rugby
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Jazz, blues
Books - anything to do with WW2, Europe between the wars, espionage and diplomacy, French resistance etc. Hate sic-fi and fantasy but enjoy a good argument about it.
Films - enjoy watching but inevitably fall asleep after half an hour and incapable of remembering any titles or actors. Have a secret passion for boxed sets of old TV series such as Foyles War

Teach, Learn, Share

I spend my life in education, teacher training and writing stuff on using technology for learning. Happy to share this!