A bit about yourself: I want to love you. I want to be best friends with the world and obliterate  unkindness and injustice. I am more materialistic than I should be and far impulsive than I can help. I cry at sight of a puppy. I eat dessert first. I talk first, think later and keep talking waaay past the voice in my head yelling at me to stop.

Passions: Travel, animals, a good book, French and folk music, cooking (and eating), the quest for the perfect wardrobe, musicals, cosy nights in, my friends and loved ones.

Your favourite things to do: My ultimate day would be spent in a foreign country with friends, doing, seeing (buying) and eating new things. 

Your most treasured possessions: My antique engagement ring, , my beautiful and fierce Pomeranian, my ipad, my dinosaur designs jewellery and, my collection of dresses, my library, my odds and ends (brass owl statues, ghost salt shakers, medical diagrams, chinese dragons, original artworks, postcards from around the world).

Your best books, films or cd’s ever:  Impossible question.

Films include: The Wizard of Oz, Amelie, Lost in Translation, The Darjeeling Limited, Mary Poppins, Rocky Horror

Books include: Narnia, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay, His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, Captain Correlli’s Mandolin, Jeeves and Wooster books, My Family and Other Animals, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Memoirs of a Geisha, Shogun, The Secret History, Persepolis, Obernewtyn, Shogun, The Princess Bride, Notes from a Small Island,

Music: Beatles, Bowie, Laura Marling, Unthanks, Regina Spektor, Tori Amos, The Rolling Stones, Grizzly Bear, ELO, Juliette Greco, Gershwin, Elvis, Elton John, Django Reinhart, Fleet Foxes, The Kinks…

What makes you happy: Smiling eyes meeting over a private joke, a meal that turns out as pretty as in the cookbook, warm sun and cool breeze, really soft green grass, 1950’s style frocks, amazing junk market finds, walking the streets of Paris, when my dog puts herself in my lap, a good book to read and a pile yet to be read, the five minutes my apartment is spotless before it gets messy again, singing along in the car.