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grace

About Me

i ought to come with a stamp on my forehead which says idiot just to warn others around me. if i were a fruit i think i would be a grapefruit, i love ice cream ben and jerrys or hagen daz is best, i laugh very loudly in films, i cry in the lion king still, i hoard things, i hate it when people are late, my hair has been through a bit of an adventure but finally it is back to its normal colour as red hair did not look good, i love travelling on trains i am compelled to talk to anyone and everyone even if they glare at me, i still have a worrying obsession with alan rickman, i would swap my uncle for my real parents in a flash, im secretly a northener and have an inner chav which comes out on the odd drunken night out, i play basketball very badly, i hate cheese apart from brie, i'm vegetarian but only coz i don't like meat, i enjoy foxhunting i think foxes are vermin and should all be shot, i barely ever live at home as my mother is a psyhco, i hate kambar, i love ballare, i have an ocd about tidyness except in other peoples houses. thats about it

My Interests

i'm a culture vulture me.. good food and drink, sport in general but especially polo, fox hunting, shooting, basketball, music in particular opera, film

I'd like to meet:

hugh laurie

Music:

so much...where to start...nick drake, manic street preachers, aerosmith, micheal jackson, led zepplin, belle and sebastian, blur, 90's cheese, republica, HANSON!!!!!!, lighthouse family, stuff i can wail along to, celine dion, mariah carey, eva cassidy, joni mitchell, jazzy stuff, diana krall, nat king cole, al green, ray charles, opera in general (not munich madama butterfly) but love tosca, turandot, pearlfishers, carmen and many others, duran duran, dire straits, guns n roses, metallica, plenty of classical music - rachmaninovs 2nd and 3rd piano concertos are AMAZING, as is shostakovitch, debussy and chopin, sans saen, tchaicovsky and elgar, 80's pop music in general, phil collins, genesis, queen, a ha, adam and the ants, bros lol, eric clapton, bananarama, basically me and lisa b have amazing music taste. in fact lisa b and me are amazing

Movies:

breakfast on pluto, newest dr zhivago, pride and prejudice with colin firth, top gun, mask of zorro, wuthering heights (with ralph fiennes), love a good period drama, girl with a pearl earring, sense and sensibilty, robin hood prince of theives - you have to love alan rickman, once upon a time in mexico, finding neverland, DIE HARD!!!!, the princess bride, batman begins, she's the man, constant gardener, match point, room with a view, lock stock and two smoking barrels, zoolander, dirty dancing, the tennant of wildfell hall, erin brokovitch, the jacket, confetti, the history boys, confidence, the lion king, beauty and the beast, the aristocats, anything disney pre 2000 excepting brother bear which is post 2000 but nevertheless amazing, shaun of the dead, hot fuzz, the illusionist, perfume: the story of a murderer, dogma, down with love, enigma, emma with gwyneth paltrow in it, sliding doors, vanity fair,

Television:

house and neighbours

Books:

liking a bit of george elliot, jane austen, tolstoy, joseph finder, alan folsom, victoria routledge, dick francis, jilly cooper, elizabeth george, john le carre, so hardcore literature or complete trash

Heroes:

anna nebtrenko, oh and mat dowling obviously :p