I’m a Yorkshire girl, from York. Y’know… that place with the Shambles, the Minster, Constantine, loads of walls, Viking boat races, Berwick Kayler’s pantos, Betty’s Café Tea Rooms… Guy Fawkes, Dick Turpin, copious public houses with an abundance of ghosts and… excessive amounts of tourists all wanting to drink tea, drink beer, see a dead person, talk about dead people, walk where dead people once did ’stuff’ and visit places dead people built (unless it’s Christmas when they come for the panto).

Winging your way here yet? In truth, I’m actually incredibly fond of this place…

I think a lot and, although I do possess a brain to mouth stopper, I still need to let it all out to prevent insanity. Verbal diarrhoea is commonplace but blogging is better because I get to edit. However, I’m an obsessive compulsive so editing becomes a bit of a punctuation game. I can’t punctuate.

An internet addict, I’ve been blogging since 1996, back when ‘blogging’ wasn’t even a term and I had to type out separate ‘Daily Diary’ pages in HTML on geocities. Sometimes I get twitchy about the crap I’ve posted and hit delete… but I’m pretty much over caring what people think. I was an IRC addict, operating in several channels for around 10 years, but those days are gone. There was once a strange and unnerving time when I disappeared from the internet for over a year… Mystical.

I’m a vegan, and I do talk about it from time to time, but I don’t preach it. There are a few links on my page in case you get nosy but they won’t chase or bite. If you’re interested in checking out things I believe in, look at the links under ‘The Happy’.

I love loads of music, especially Rock, Industrial and Metal; I play guitar, bass and sing; I’m learning to program musical things; and I read a lot, especially classics/poetry, my favourite book being Wuthering Heights (how very Yorkshire of me).

I’m hopelessly addicted to film and currently working on spec screenplays. I plan on heading to California when they’re ‘done’ and when I’ve wrapped up my commitments here. I’m also a film reviewer for FilmmakerIQ.

I’m utterly indecisive, technically minded, far too easily pleased, and the happiest unfortunate person you may ever come across — but probably the two most important things to know about me are that I’m a romantic and a dreamer…

HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet,
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

– W.B. Yeats