CURRENT MISSION

I've always had an open house to friends and my children's friends-can feed loads of people for a fiver with great vegetarian soups and rice pudding!!

ABOUT ME

Kind, helpful, good on medical knowledge!!! Loves dogs, friendly! :) Activist-stands up for minorities whether in health or ethnic origin. Strong on fair play and honesty.

PHILOSOPHY

Care for others. The quietest person often has the most interesting things to say!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just starting out!! (august)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Brilliant so far-my first guests felt like friends after two days. Seem to be lots of like minded people on here-open to friendship :)

Interests

Music-punk, rock, folk.Sport-weight training,dance, swimming ,walking. Books-classics and modern contemporary fiction.Local politics and charity work-events,fund-raising, awareness raising.

• dogs
• humanities
• books
• dancing
• vegetarian
• running
• walking
• politics
• reading
• music
• hinduism
• sikhism
• sports
• swimming
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I love the authors Mervyn Peake, David Lodge, Robert Harris, Joanne Harris, John o' Farrell, Roddy Doyle, Alexander Mc Call Smith-oh, and DH Larewnce, Graham Greene!! Best films for me have a political story-Before the Rain, Silkwood, Missing,Midnight Express, One Flew over the Cuckoos nest, Girl Interrupted. But my nephews still make me watch teen comedy stuff with them!! Theatre was my first love-I lived by the Theatre Royal in Bath and saw many brilliant plays and actors from the pound seats in the gods!(And ballet which I love) The only music I can't stand is free atonal jazz and I'm not keen on opera-give me a rowdy punk or rock band that makes your heart leap, any day!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

High tide at the harbour in my home town of South Wales-breathtaking.The beach at 5am in Biarritz, south of France. My children being born at home. The kindness of some nurses when my daughter was very ill.

Teach, Learn, Share

All ages, all nationalities. I help run a young people's mental health charity-we put on gigs to fund-raise. I was also Inequalities lead in the NHS for some years and visited some amazing Mosques and Hindu and Sikh temples-right here in Reading!

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom