CURRENT MISSION

To seek felicity in the simple and natural things

ABOUT ME

I like dancing, irreverence, laughing, gin, reading, satire, sunshine, cycling, cooking, excessive napping, handknitted socks, discovering.

Guilty pleasures include: Wearing pyjamas all day.

PHILOSOPHY

- "Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit"

- "Every once in a while I just want a t-shirt that happens to be made in honduras, you know?....I try to live a moral life but i just can't be a vegan for their sins"

- "I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared 'that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow'"

- "Charm is a habit, not an indication of affection"

- "[Man is] an animal, suspended in webs of his own spinning...a bag of skin, bones and behaviour"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couple of months spent trundling around Europe. I met some wonderful people.

Started hosting in Bath in 2012 - again, meeting lovely people and really enjoying it.

Interests

Reading, cooking, knitting, cycling, reduce/reuse/recycle, bad jokes, napping, writing, how and why people tick, gardening, Radio 3/4/6, avoiding quixotism, trying to buy second-hand, inebriation, a DIY ethic, geo-caching, playing games, sex & gender issues, past & current world events, knowledge in general.

• animals
• writing
• diy
• dancing
• cooking
• beer
• cocktails
• vegan
• gardening
• reading
• crochet
• knitting
• cycling
• religion
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Joy Division, 65 days of static, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Joni Mitchell, Elliot Smith, Efterklang, Bat for Lashes, Saul Williams, Explosions In The Sky, The Pixies, Aesop Rock, Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, Bjork, Queen Adreena, Bonnie Prince Billy, Iron & Wine, The Smiths, Quasimoto, King Tubby, MSTRKRFT, Le Tigre, Mogwai, Devendra Banhart, Kate Bush, Nick Drake, David Bowie

Isaac Asimov, Terry Pratchett, Robert Jordan, Haruki Murakami, Douglas Adams, Vladimir Nabokov, Aldous Huxley, Carl Sagan, George Orwell, Neal Stephenson, Bret Easton Ellis, Ernest Hemingway, Gerald Durrell, Douglas Coupland, George R R Martin, Graham Greene, W Somerset Maugham

The Mighty Boosh, Absolutely Fabulous, Black Books, Buffy, South Park, Jeeves and Wooster, Star Trek, Arrested Development, Nathan Barley

Pepe Luci Bom, Control, Howl's Moving Castle, The Dark Crystal, The Labyrinth, Monsoon Wedding, the Squid and the Whale, Shortbus

Achewood, XKCD, Cat And Girl, Sinfest, Overcompensating, Questionable Content, Butternutsquash, Anders loves Maria...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching clouds cascade over mountains.

Teach, Learn, Share

I could show you a cocktail or two. I can teach you how to make ginger beer and pancakes, pickles and sorbets. I've been known to make candles. I can show you how to knit and crochet. I could teach you how to play the recorder or maybe teach you a song or two (strictly cocktails first).

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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