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Nicola

I am here for Friends

About Me

Me... I talk too fast and eat too slowly. Generally I am either 100 miles an hour or stopped for a hot chocolate on the hard shoulder. I can get incredibly enthusiastic about something and then give up after 5 minutes, or hang on until the bitter end.I will NEVER give up on a book. Even if i have no idea of the plot. I love to laugh out loud (although if this occurs when i am on my own i do look about sheepishly and then tell myself i am an idiot!) then carry on laughing.My friends are very important to me and I am the sort of person that will drive over at a moments notice if someone needs me, without question.Inside me, there is an 'outdoorsy person' struggling to get out!

My Interests

Nothing better than a good book on a warm day. The best ones are when you might sit down at the end of a sunday afternoon film and only look up from your book when your leg has gone to sleep, and you have to screw your eyes up to read 'cos somehow it got dark. When did that happen!I love to drive, my poor car has taken a battering through mileage not my bad driving obviously ;-)I'm interested in other people, and what makes them happy makes me happy.I have just decided to start running, a) to get fitter (this won't be difficult. Slim does NOT mean fit). b) its free! c) might meet a nice chap walking his adorable Weimurer or whatever that dog is called that i like. Worm Murmerer is my pet name for it!I like a good (cheap) glass of red, a pizza and the company of my friends.

I'd like to meet:

More people that make me laugh. Or can repeat whole scenes of Monty Python to me verbatim! & my doppelganger.

Music:

Music, I don't listen to enough of it. Although when i do it could be anything from AC/DC to Moby to the soundtrack for 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'. Anything I can sing to, dance to (use the phrase dance loosely!) or brings a twinge of nostalgia.Old favourites - Sting, Peter Gabriel.

Movies:

The Colour Purple - makes me cry every time. Also Meet Jo Black. Old sing-along-musicals, you know the sort where everyone in the market scene suddenly springs up and an amusing routine involving some loaves of bread and a flower cart ensues. That film with Doris Day where she fills her swimming pool with soap powder! I like scary films until they finish and i am convinced that a zombie is in the airing cupboard! I don't like the films they make of a book i have read and re-read, it's never good. The people aren't how i imagine them to be and they always miss crucial bits out! GRRRR

Television:

ER (what can i say!). Anything David Attenborough does, could watch / listen to him all day. Films that make me say 'you would never go upstairs, in a dark, haunted house when you just heard a crash from the attic in REAL LIFE!'

Books:

Enid Blyton sums up my childhood summers. Just finished reading the books by Dave Peltzer. And 1984. Quite like John Grisham, and those historical novels about Scottish Kings loosely based on real events. 'Discworld' series by Terry Pratchett would be my current holiday read. I am trying to read more books i think i should have read at my age. I will pretty much read anything.. except newspapers.

Heroes:

If i could have 'that' dinner party and invite anyone, on the guest list would be : .... Michael Palin......... my dear friend Kevin from the U.S who i have never met.......... i'll get back to you on this - requires more thought that i .....thought!...