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About Me

Basics
Name: Jenny. (No, not Jennifer.)
Location: South Leicestershire.
Marital status: Married.
Offspring: Sadly, none. Ideally, I'd have liked to foster.
Pets: One canary that goes by the name of Hurdy-Birdy II.
Heritage: 3/4 Welsh, 1/8 English, 1/16 French, 1/16 Irish.
Occupation: Troublemaker, housewife, perpetual student.

Appearance
Height: 5'3" ... or 5'9" en pointe.
Weight: That of three slender people combined.
Eyes: A grey/blue/green mess.
Hair: Long and a sort of light brown/dirty blonde colour.
Clothing: Long, plain and dark.
Distinguishing marks: Heavily scarred left forearm.
Personality
Strength: Phenomenal intelligence. (Ahem.)
Weakness: Lack of perseverance.
Fear: Everything or nothing. It depends on my mood.
Obsession: Being a know-it-all.
Regrets: Putting off living for Christ for so long.
Worst Habit: Splitting infinitives!
Passive or aggressive?: Both... Often at the same time.
Lifelong ambition: To live a life that glorifies God.
Ideal death: One for which I am prepared.
Favourite...
Book: Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Song: I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say (Kingsfold tune)
Food: Hummous and wholemeal pitta.
Drink: Water. (I'm easily pleased.)
Colour: It depends on the context.
Animal: Essentially anything farmyardish.
Quote: Verberat nos et lacerat fortuna.
Country/place: Faroe Isles.
Currently...
Reading: Letters & Papers From Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Waterlog by Roger Deakin.
Listening to: Crockery being put away.
Wearing: Voluminous blue nightdress and a white kapp.
Feeling: Contentedly melancholic.
Thinking about: The blanket I'm supposed to be crocheting.

My Interests

God, conservative anabaptism, plain/simple living, housewifery, pacifism/non-resistance, oil lamps, self-sufficiency, solitude, anti-feminism, social justice, size acceptance, pre-clinical medical studies, growing vegetables, going barefoot, sewing, embroidery, baking, singing, knitting, Welsh language and theology.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who can stand half an hour of my company and who'll forgive me if I forget to e-mail for six months at a time. Feel free to add me, if you feel we have anything in common... or, for that matter, if we don't.

Music:

99% of people will think me insane for this (especially in light of the fact that I used to listen to everything from Sonic Youth and Bikini Kill to Britten and Mahler) but I have given up listening to music. Even the Christian stuff proves too much of a distraction for me. So, in line with Matthew 18:8, I've cut it out of my life.

Movies:

Innocence
(2004)
.
Richard III
(1995)
.
Buffalo Soldiers
(2001)
.
Capote
(2005)
.
Hotel Rwanda
(2004)
.
Schindler's List
(1993)
.
Wayne's World
(1992)
.
Boys Don't Cry
(1999)
.
Northfork
(2003)
.
The Idiots/Idioterne
(1998)
.
Palindromes
(2004)
.
Edward Scissorhands
(1990)
.
Secretary
(2002)
.
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
(1939)
.
Ace Ventura
(1994)
.
Magdalene Sisters
(2002)

Television:

We don't have a television, though I still find plenty of other ways in which to waste my time.

Books:

The Bible... and authors such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A.W. Tozer, John Bunyan, Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Menno Simons, Charlotte & Anne BrontÃ«, John Wesley, Robert Tressell, L.M. Montgomery, George Eliot, Phillip Yancey, John Steinbeck, etc. I also have a weakness for pre-1960s housekeeping manuals and classic children's fiction.

Heroes:

Jesus (yes, predictable, I know), Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Peel, Jeremiah, Marilyn Wann, Gwyneth Dunwoody, Chris Morris, John Wycliffe.
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My Blog

What Happened When We Painted The Ceiling...

Stephen and I decided to give the study a much needed lick of paint, beginning with a coat of bright white emulsion for the ceiling. Twenty minutes after we’d finished, our freshly painted ceili...
Posted by Anabaptist Wife on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:22:00 PST

"Mummy... Is That Lady A Nun?"

I love the indiscrete nature of children. Yesterday, I was cycling through the scrap of land that the town council has ambitiously decided to call a "Country Park" when an unleashed dog took exceptio...
Posted by Anabaptist Wife on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:13:00 PST

Erm, How Is That Martyrdom?

When I began reading "Letters & Papers from Prison" I knew little of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer other than that he was regarded as a Christian martyr having - apparently - been imprisoned and...
Posted by Anabaptist Wife on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:20:00 PST

"Lost The Race I Never Ran"

I had never had any particular desire for children of my own. Ever since I was a young girl, my maternal instincts had inclinded towards the idea of fostering or adopting children as opposed to bearin...
Posted by Anabaptist Wife on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:27:00 PST

Thank You

It's been a long time since I last posted and I am still not quite ready to explain the cause of my sudden paroxysm of bitterness and grief. However, I wanted to sign in again, just for a moment, so t...
Posted by Anabaptist Wife on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:20:00 PST

A Waste Of Everybodys Time

Oh dear. I cannot resist these things. I filled this one out quite a while ago, but haven't posted it until now. It seems to be just the thing to plug the gap between my last, devasted post and the ti...
Posted by Anabaptist Wife on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:34:00 PST

A Request For Those Who Pray

I can't bear to be specific at present, but one of my greatest fears has been realised and I'm feeling exceptionally isolated and depressed (not to mention bitter and twisted) about the whole thing. M...
Posted by Anabaptist Wife on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:58:00 PST

Disappearing Act

I needed somewhere to leave this piece of self-indulgent grief. I don't know if it's quite right to have it here. It's a ludicrously public thing to place in the public domain... but it's almost impos...
Posted by Anabaptist Wife on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:01:00 PST

That’s Tentertainment

I love camping. I love tents, bedding rolls, camp stoves, and those nesting aluminium pan sets. I love lighting the gas lanterns as dusk falls, wriggling down into the warmth of a sleeping bag, and tr...
Posted by Anabaptist Wife on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:39:00 PST

For The Attention Of My Mother....

Something like these, please!...
Posted by Anabaptist Wife on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:05:00 PST