My Favourite Things

Hobbies and Interests: I have loads! I worship music and I sing as well as playing flute and piano. I am a member of the Geoffrey Whitworth Theatre and Swanley Light Operatic Group (SLOG). I love both drawing and writing (I have finished my first novel and am working on a second). I have a great interest in folklore and mythology - especially vampires! I adore history, art and pretty much anything cultural. I enjoy making new friends, including penpals and online. I go regularly to both the theatre and the cinema and I collect theatre programmes. I recently also become very interested in photography, psychology and webdesign.. Not to forget that I love reading!!!

Want to know more? Then read on and look at some of the links below or view some of my artwork etc....

My favourite...

Colours: Blue, Silver, Purple....

Food/Drink: Chocolate, ice cream, pasta, rice, absinthe (lol), Southern Comfort and orange juice (thanks Steve!), hot chocolate...

Musicals: Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Jekyll and Hyde, Johanka z Arku, Dracula (Czech), Elisabeth, Boy From OZ, Tanz der Vampire, Notre Dame de Paris, Obraz Doriana Graye, Golem, Assassins...

Singers: Anthony Warlow, Andrea Bocelli, Uwe Kroeger, Lucie Bila, Jan Apolenar, Josef Vojtek, Bruno Pelletier, Philip Quast, Hugh Jackman, Monika Absolonova, Helene Segara, Aris Sas, Maya Hakvoort, Tomas Trapl, David Malek, Daniel Hulka, Janek Ledecky, Ramin Karimloo...

Bands: I'm not a big fan of modern music though I like some bands like Evanescence, Within Temptation and The Corrs. I enjoy 60's pop and ABBA. On the whole I'll listen to most things save heavy metal, rap and dance. I like Czech group "Dolmen" led by Tomas Trapl.

Composers: Percy Grainger, Mozart, Faure, Bach, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Dowland, Purcell, Sondheim and my friend, Richard.

Musicians: Percy Grainger, Glenn Gould, Piotr Anderszewski and my friend, Richard.

Theatre: Musicals, plays, opera, ballet, concerts....anything and everything really!

Cinema: I watch all genres of film and love my DVD collection. It's hard to pick fave films but I guess they would include:- LOTR, Amelie, American Beauty, Quills, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Closer, Moulin Rouge, Dirty Dancing, Institute Benjamenta, Pretty Woman, Onegin, Interview with the Vampire, Brokeback Mountain, Van Helsing, La Terreur et la Vertu, Secretary, Girl Interrupted, Baise-moi, Lost in Translation, The Piano Teacher...

Television: Red Dwarf, The Brittas Empire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dark Angel, Alias, Lost, Rome, Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister, Dr Who, Torchwood...

Actors/Actresses: Chris Barrie, Richard Roxburgh, Hugh Jackman, Audrey Tautou, Nicole Kidman, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor, Monica Belluci, Alan Rickman, Angelina Jolie, Ralph Fiennes, Ronan Vibert, Jeremy Irons, James Frain, Joaquin Phoenix, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Anthony Stewart Head, Mark Rylance, David Tennant...

Books: I read pretty much anything; I consume books as if there were no tomorrow. My faves though would include: Lord of the Rings, Les Miserables, HHGTTG, Divine Comedy, Hamlet, American Psycho, Hotel Transylvania (and all the other Saint Germain novels), The Alchemist (Coelho), Eugene Onegin, Memoires of Cleopatra, A Place of Greater Safety, Longing, The Piano Teacher...

Authors: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Jane Austen, Anne Rice, Thomas Hardy, Paulo Coelho, Bronte's, Douglas Adams, Bret Easton Ellis, Tolkien...to name just a few...

Poets: Heinrich Heine, Walt Whitman, William Blake, Percy Shelley, Dante Alighieri, Viggo Mortensen, Pushkin...

Artists: J W Waterhouse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci...

Photographers: Viggo Mortensen, Darren Holmes, Jan Saudek, Lilya Corneli, Pascal Renoux, Christian Coigny, Marta Lukar, Martin Cooper, Ewa Lena Brzozowska...

Languages: I speak fluent French, pretty much fluent German, intermediate Czech and Italian, basic Spanish(reading/writing) and have dabbled a little in Old English, Middle English, Modern Greek, Latin, Esperanto and Danish. I am just starting Dutch and next on the list are Finnish, Russian and Japanese. I love learning new languages!!

Places: Prague, Paris, New Zealand,, Florence, Covent Garden in London, the Globe Theatre and Bankside in London...

Historical Periods and People: I adore the French Revolution and Robespierre! I also love anything on Sissi of Austria, Renaissance Italy, Ancient Egypt, the Anglo-Saxons...