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Rachael

High in the sky I saw a pie.

About Me

Puritan

My Interests

My daughter. My allotment. Freecycle. Paganism. Heathenry. Quakerism. Folklore and mythology. Yoga. I'd like to keep bees. I'd like to learn Molly. I'd like to permaculture my roof garden and allotment. I would like a cloak of invisibility. I would like more solitude.

Music:

Folk. The higher the body count the better. Leonard Cohen. Mari Boine. Sharron Kraus. Nick Drake. Sigur Ros. Nina Simone. Bob Dylan. Bert Jansch. Robert Wyatt. Pumajaw. The Pentangle. Shirley Collins. The Owl Service. Espers. Tom Waits. Nick Cave.

Movies:

The Machinist. The Blue Kite. The Magic Toyshop. The Company of Wolves. In the Mood for Love. Brief Encounter. Other People's Lives. Ladislaw Starewizc (awesome animator from the 1930;s and earlier). The Crowd.

Television:

I don't watch television.

Books:

Ursula Le Guin - "The Disposessed", "The Left HAnd of Darkness", "The Earthsea Quartet"; Angela Carter - "The Magic Toyshop", "Heroes and Villains", The Infernal Desire Machine of Dr Hoffman"; Arthur Ransome - "Swallows and Amazons" series; Philip Pullman - "His Dark Materials", Helen Dunmore, Nigel Pennick, Kevin Crossley Holland, Ronald Hutton, Carol Ann Duffy, Alan Moore - "Swamp Thing"; Mythology, Fairy Tales, Ted Hughes, Leonora Carrington, The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Anderson, The Snow Goose - Paul Gallico, Emily Dickinson; Dodie Smith - "I Capture the Castle"

Heroes:

I'm still looking. I am perennially disappointed.

My Blog

Smileys!

The fucking smiley ad at the top of this page (at the time of writing) nigh on gave me a heart attack.Let me warn you NOW! Anyone who sends me any messages, e-mails etc etc etc - that contain a SMILEY...
Posted by Rachael on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:39:00 PST

Why? Links?

Why doesn't MySpace automatically recognise links and publish them as such, rather than having to do that "link" faffing about on the tool bar? Why else would you insert a URL?
Posted by Rachael on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:02:00 PST

Save Our Gardens

Garden Organic/HDRA campaign to stop developers buying up houses, knocking them down and then filling the land up with cheap nasty housing!http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/saveourgardens/index .php...
Posted by Rachael on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:29:00 PST

Carbon Emissions/Breathing Earth

See this?http://www.breathingearth.net/
Posted by Rachael on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:48:00 PST

How to Eat Yourself to Death

I came across this article about bursting stomachs. Vile but fascinating! salon.com > Health & Body Dec. 3, 1999 URL: http://www.salon.com/health/col/roac/1999/12/03/roach Unhappy meal How to eat...
Posted by Rachael on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:23:00 PST

Drink me if you can find me

Pineau des Charentes is VERY nice.It is a Cognac and Red wine/grapes mixed up thing.
Posted by Rachael on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:21:00 PST

Homeless Children's Folklore

This was posted on one of the forums I read and I thought it was so amazing I had to put it here.From miaminewtimes.com Originally published by Miami New Times 1997-06-05 ©2005 New Times, Inc. All rig...
Posted by Rachael on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:16:00 PST