Shirley's Profile |
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happy days... |
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| Age: | 60 years old |
| Sex: | Female |
| Location: | Scotland |
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| Last Login: | Oct 3, 2007 (338 days back) |
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About Me |
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| an artist working and living in Fife, Scotland, with a toe in Portugal (a quinta but it is up for sale just now!)...English born but raised on a tea estate in Sri Lanka...educated in South India (Hebron High School, Coonoor)...in Scotland for many years now... quite a green fingered soul who prefers working with her hands rather than her head....so ideally would like to settle living off the land ....
I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
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My Interests |
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| art (pastels and encaustic wax - see below!), poetry, singing, music, travel, green spaces, sand and sea, reading, alternative therapies (particularly Reiki)... | |
I'd like to meet:other like minded people... weilding a painbrush... holding onto a muddy spade ... interested in keeping things green ... gripping a well travelled suitcase .... |
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Music:various likes depending on mood.. Paul Simon's Graceland, Santana, Vivaldi, Iguana, Beatles, Blood Sweat and Tears, Tina Turner, Crosby Stills and Nash, James Reid, Jack Johnson, Tunng, Bob Marley, Beachboys, quiet stuff, loud stuff, and so on... |
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Movies:Withnail & I, Clint Eastwood films, Blue Juice, lots but can't remember titles... |
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Television:Don't go much for soaps but like a good documentary or play and get sucked into the living elsewhere ones! |
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Books:varied choices at random on visit to libary... mostly just to read in bed as an aid to falling alseep... aaah! |
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Heroes:I'm not really into hero worship but admire anyone who is working towards helping this planet to be a better place ... |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Children: | Proud parent |
| Occupation: | artist |
My Blog |
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THE MAYONNAISE JAR AND COFFEE |
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| The following was sent to me by a friend and I would like to share it with you:When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hoursin a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise ja... Posted by Shirley on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:06:00 PST |
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED AT THE DENTIST |
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| I happen to have a particularly handsome dentist and am quite happy to lie back, open my mouth and let him get on with it all, while observing his upside down face. But I totally embarrassed mys... Posted by Shirley on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:25:00 PST |
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CARDS OF MY PASTEL WORK FOR SALE, Gallery 8 |
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| I haven't set up a way for sale of my work through this site but for those that live in Scotland, or visit Scotland, there is a lovely art gallery to visit, Gallery 8, Shore Road, Aberdour, Fife, wher... Posted by Shirley on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:23:00 PST |
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WORDS ON PAPER |
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| Words on paper can be so frustrating
Some blank and flat with no mistaking
But they themselves can tell some lies
For if you read between the lines
Another meaning can meet the eyes
But then, again, y... Posted by Shirley on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:36:00 PST |
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JAGGED DROPS |
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| The raindrops on the windowpane
Are running down in jagged streams
Matching reflections that I saw
Upon a face held in my dreams
Teardrops falling from those eyes
With no comfort found this morn... Posted by Shirley on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:25:00 PST |
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A QUINTESSENTIAL PLACE! my Portugal story part 6 |
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| Although I lived on my own before I was married and while working in Edinburgh, I never really experienced loneliness as living in a city meant I was able to go and see friends easily. Howe... Posted by Shirley on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:08:00 PST |
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A bit more added to Lazy Day one... |
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| See the first writing and added after Peter's comment.... Posted by Shirley on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:43:00 PST |
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IN NEED OF A LAZY DAY! |
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| The breeze is gently stirring the pinks
Their scent alluring while I sit and thinks
In the house the wash it gently thuds
While up above me a small clud scuds
A sparrow cocks his head to look at me
A ... Posted by Shirley on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:03:00 PST |
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About a doggy poem... |
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| I have a poem written some time ago on a bit of paper together with sketch and I can't work out a way to put the whole thing into this space.... it came about after reading an irate ar... Posted by Shirley on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:40:00 PST |
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NIGHT AWAKENING! |
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| There can be a time at night
When you waken with a start
What was it gave you such a fright?
You lie quite still.... and then... you fart!
Perhaps that's what it was
That woke you after all!... Posted by Shirley on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:33:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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James Reid, Lucy, the jack door, Kate, shelly, Steve, ~*IRIS*~, melancholic revelry doodles, Mr. Fly, J.D. Photography, Salt and Blue, The Low Road, Peter, mariee sioux, Autumn Grieve, Marissa Nadler, dimwits, Moira Encantada e o Castelo de Xavier, Wooly Mar, The Joy of Nature, Custodioso, Maddwitch, derek, Peter Phippen, Crista Forest, I.V. Webb, peter dog, anne, Noelia, STONECHEST, W*Holisticâ„¢ Networking, Heidi, George, jjsparks/natfrancis, beat artist trudy rowe
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