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Miranda

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About Me

Just a girl living a contented life with her guy - and cats in the south of England! Sound like a crazed cat lady, but I'm 'normal' really! I day dream about creating a social enterprise - a pottery studio/creative arts retreat - one day soon where people who want a second chance in life can rediscover their creative heart in a supportive environment. Watch this space - plans have already started. First things first - must relocate!Check out our other blog for lots more updates and piccies - mandm.typepad.com.

My Interests

Art, pottery, DIY, gardening, playing the oboe and sax, singing, theatre, writing, cooking, dinner parties, photography, rugby, swimming, country walks, handbags, shoes, travelling.Community arts work. I run an arts group for mentally ill adults and am in the process of setting up a small creative art charity to give a wider audience of people the opportunity to get those creative juices going in a fun and safe environment. If it paid the mortgage, I'd do it full time! In between all that I just started grad school - need more hours in the day!

I'd like to meet:

Maya Angelou, Micheal Moore, MBE, Harry Potter, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, CS Lewis, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart, Jack Sparrow, Beatrix Potter, Augusto Boal, Kate Winslet, Peter Pan, Barry Braimah - free at last.

Music:

Pretty much up for anything. My ipod has transformed my listening habits and now listen to whatever is easiest to get to. Gorillaz, Chemical Brothers, U2, Nora Jones, John Legend, Tracy Chapman, Paul Weller, Toploader, King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Tony Bennett, Rob Getzschman, Randall Williams, Ray Charles, Diana Krall, Spandau Ballet, Mindy Jostyn, Simply Red, Carlos Santana, Michael Buble, Genesis, U2 and finally the best band around - One Good Sun!

Movies:

Movie nut! Select few are: Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter movies, Star Wars, The Producers, Ghandi, De-lovely, Waking Ned, Saving Grace, My Left Foot, Freedom, Chariots of Fire, Chocolat, Ever After, Hotel Rwanda, Mrs Henderson Presents, The Constant Gardener, Brokeback Mountain, Cry Freedom, 4 Weddings & a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually, Shadowlands, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, X Men, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Great Escape, Sense & Sensibility. Much Ado About Nothing, Wallace & Grommit, The Anchorman, Indiana Jones, Star Trek and finally the Carry On... films.

Television:

Way too much! Just about any British Comedy - especially LITTLE BRITAIN, The IT Crowd, & Monty Python, plus period dramas such as Pride & Prejudice. Some US stuff - Friends, and Will & Grace.Have recently discovered The IT Crowd - it rocks!

Books:

I'm a big kid! Tolkein, CS Lewis, Harry Potter, Thoreaux, Bill Bryson, Science and Health, The Bible, Virginia Woolf, Jasper Fforde, Dan Brown, Alan Bennett, Dawn French, Emma Thompson, Sue Gee, AA Milne, Beatrix Potter, Kenneth Grahame. Nigella Lawson cookbooks. Currently reading: several Arts for Change course books.

Heroes:

My Grannie-Mum, MBE, Harry Potter, Nelson Mandela, Matt Lucas & David Walliams, The Two Ronnies, Dawn French & Miss Piggy!!

My Blog

Myspace spam

I woke up to an email from a friend this morning to say that my account has been tampered with and some rather nasty messages sent. SO apologies to all you folks and I've now changed my account settin...
Posted by Miranda on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:46:00 PST

Spam, spam, spam, spam...Spamalot!

 .. Our good friend Kim came down from Yorkshire to see us this weekend. After spending a night in on Friday eating rather alot and catching up we hit the town yesterday. Made it into London in t...
Posted by Miranda on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:17:00 PST

Birthday Snow

The last time it snowed on my birthday I must have been barely out of diapers! So you can imagine my excitement this morning when we awoke to a soft spattering of the white stuff! I was like a kid in ...
Posted by Miranda on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:30:00 PST

Blown away

It's sods law. No soon as we had a new garden fence put up - supposed to be sturdy and should be at that cost! Yesterday the area was battered by a violent storm. At times we thought the office might ...
Posted by Miranda on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:43:00 PST

Belated Christmas celebrations

Had a great Christmas hanging out with Matt's family for over a week. We were both feeling pretty under the weather but helping look after the kids, paint and clean the in laws house in between coughi...
Posted by Miranda on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:16:00 PST

Yey for Christmas!

Amazingly we made it to Christmas! All my assignments are done - just the portfolio to work on over the next week, but that's the fun bit. We're kicking back and relaxing for a week or so before work ...
Posted by Miranda on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:01:00 PST

Parents!

This has to go down as the current Number One in the top ten stories we will tell our children (when we have them) about their Mad Granny Susie. We have spent all this weekend turning the house upside...
Posted by Miranda on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 06:46:00 PST

I'm a student....again!

Holy crap I'm a student again! Can't tell you how weird it felt at the induction afternoon last week. My class is all mature students - 25 women and 2 'token' men. The campus was full of freshers...
Posted by Miranda on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:02:00 PST