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Mandy

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About Me

Love all animals (except maybe spiders), and especially cats. Have been veggie since I was 9 and am almost vegan - damn that pesky chocolate (I will conquer it one day...just not yet!). Also love live music and can usually be found at The Malin "Can U Jam" session Sunday afternoons watching my bloke, Dog, and all the other excellent local musicians. Haven't been able to work or study for a long time now for health reasons but have always done some sort of voluntary work - from counselling and adult literacy through to helping run South Yorkshire Animal Rescue. I currently manage the national contacts group for Action for M.E. and do loads of different voluntary stuff for Sheffield M.E. / CFS group. Abhor cruelty, bigotry and indifference. Value friendship very highly - if I like you, you've got me for life!

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My Interests

Cats, animal rights, live music, languages, art, philosophy, religions, Greek classical literature and mythology, poetry, health and mental health issues, making jewellery, vegetarianism, red wine and good conversation.

I'd like to meet:

Stephen Fry, Mark Thomas, Russell Brand and copious amounts of red wine sounds like a damn fine evening to me. On here, anyone from my past, present or, indeed, future - new friends most welcome.

Music:

Rock, punk, Americana, alt country, power pop, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Gram Parsons, Wildhearts, Mott the Hoople, Bright Eyes, Dogs D'Amour, Crybabys, Broken Family Band, Jayhawks, Fountains of Wayne, Veal, Sondre Lerche, The Shazam, Silver Sun, Faces, Black Crowes, Eels, Creedence, Bowie, Stones, Ryan Adams, I Am Kloot, Flaming Lips, Deadstring Brothers, Ramones, Nick Lowe, Hefner, Lou Reed, Van Morrison, Richard Hawley, Squeeze, Supergrass, Afghan Whigs, You Am I

Movies:

Naked, Withnail and I, Equus, Rocky Horror, Rumblefish, The Big Lebowski

Books:

Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser, Head-On/Repossessed - Julian Cope, Wasp Factory - Iain Banks, The Secret History - Donna Tartt, Stephen King, Brian Patten, Philip Pullman, Charles Bukowski, Winnie the Pooh