wrenontherun

I'm a 41-year part-time librarian. I have a 12-year old daughter, a 9-year son, a lovely black kitty, and a fairly patient husband! I love to read and make things, and never seem to have enough time to do as much of either as I'd like! I like wrens and hedgehogs and acorns, Liberty of London fabrics, vintage hankies, violets, and buttons and beads, rainy days and drinking tea. I love England, and dream of living there some day. My favorite colors are robin's egg blue, periwinkle, blue greens and blue-violets and peachy corals, and I don't have any fibre allergies that I know of--although I guess I have an "aesthetic" allergy to acrylic yarn!

Please don't send anything overtly political or religious. I've got my own personal beliefs and views on these fronts, and I respect other folks' right to have their own as well, but I don't think they have a place in swaps! Thanks for your understanding on this!

I enjoy most music (except modern "country")--My current favorites are Pulp/Jarvis Cocker, Blur, Elbow, Neko Case, Belle and Sebastian, XTC, The Smiths, Robyn Hitchcock...

Red, The Double Life of Veronique, Oscar & Lucinda, The English Patient, North by Northwest, Arsenic and Old Lace, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade,Garden State, I heart Huckabees, Amelie, Picnic at Hanging Rock, A Canterbury Tale, Lars and the Real Girl, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Once...

Britcoms and British Cooks...Anything Monty Python, Clatterford (Jam & Jerusalem), Vicar of Dibley, As Time Goes By, The Young Ones, Fortysomething, Two Fat Ladies, anything Jamie Oliver or Nigella...

I guess knitting and embroidery are at the top of the list right now, and I'm trying currently to improve my sewing (both hand and machine)and crochet skills, but I've dabbled in all sorts of things! (And continue to dabble when I can find the time!)

Jane Eyre & Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Jane Austen, especially Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson (And its sequels, Miss Buncle Married and The Two Mrs Abbots).

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

Anything by Hilary McKay, especially her Casson Family series

Anything by Jasper Fforde

Dorothy Sayers, especially Gaudy Night (and her other books featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane).

I have really enjoyed most of the books I've read that are currently being reprinted by Persephone Books...their website is worth a browse!

I also really love to read cookbooks, especially at bedtime!