Born and brought up in Newport, Gwent, I am one of 4 children. After doing my A-levels I left Wales to study English and French law at King's College London, University of London and the Sorbonne, Université de Paris I. I currently reside in Newport and have a border collie called Bootros.
I enjoy snooker, tennis, skiing and all watersports, in particular windsurfing.
Some of the best windsurfing I have ever had has been at Broadhaven in Pembrokeshire, Wales and at Kefalos Bay, Kos, Greece. As for inland windsurfing, Llandegfedd reservoir near Cwmbran is excellent. If all this talk of windsurfing has made you want to get out there and get some action, you might want to first check the coastal weather forecast in the box below:
I recently spent an amazing week diving in the Red Sea at Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt - if you haven't tried diving yet then you really don't know what your missing!
I love food, definitely savoury rather than sweet. Some of my favourite dishes are: sweet & sour pork, chicken in black bean sauce, Peking duck with plum sauce, chicken & cashew nuts, beef & snake beans with noodles, chinese broccoli with crisp fried garlic, saté chicken, triple mushroom omelette, garlic ginger chicken in bok choy. As a law student I spent 2 years living next to China town in the 15th arrondissement in Paris - hence the obsession with good Chinese cuisine!
One of my favourite ways of relaxing is by playing the piano. Unfortunately, I only had time to do grade 7 ABRSM before having to stop to concentrate on my A-levels. I would like to play more often than I actually do. One of my dreams is to have a house by the sea with a black Steinway grand piano in a room with a wooden floor, and a huge glass window overlooking the sea... Think I'll have to win bananalotto first though!
My favourite:
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15 songs: |
15 films: |
8 books/plays: |
5 TV comedies: |
| 1. |
Can't take my eyes off you - Andy Williams |
Where Eagles Dare |
The Hobbit - J R Tolkien |
Whose line is it anyway? |
| 2. |
La Javanaise - Serge Gainsbourg |
The Italian Job |
Lord of the Flies - William Golding |
The Young Ones |
| 3. |
Lola - The Kinks |
The Great Escape |
Under Milkwood - Dylan Thomas |
Only Fools & Horses |
| 4. |
Whatever you want - Status Quo |
Enter the Dragon |
Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck |
Harry Enfield & Chums |
| 5. |
Don't you want me? - Human League |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Macbeth - William Shakespeare |
Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| 6. |
For your eyes only - Sheena Easton |
ALL Dirty Harry films |
The 48 laws of Power
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| 7. |
Nobody does it better - Carly Simon |
Papillon |
Le droit a la paresse - Paul Lafargue
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| 8. |
Hotel California - The Eagles |
The Sting |
Lord of the Rings - J R Tolkien
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| 9. |
Nikita - Elton John |
The Colour of Money |
| 10. |
The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel |
Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels |
| 11. |
Can't always get what you want - Rolling Stones |
Cinema Paradiso |
| 12. |
Ma Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder |
ALL 007 films |
| 13. |
Somebody to Love - Queen |
The Shining |
| 14. |
Woman - John Lennon |
Coming to America |
| 15. |
Bridge over troubled water - Simon & Garfunkel |
The Sound of Music |
On graduating in 1997 with law degrees from King's College London, University of London and the Sorbonne, Université de Paris I, I also became an Associate of King's College London. I then completed the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law, London in 1998. Following qualification in 2000 at a major European law firm, I moved to join the employment department of a medium-sized commercial law firm in Cardiff, as an Assistant Solicitor. I deal with a mixture of contentious & non-contentious, applicant & respondent-based employment work.
I am fluent in French have a working knowledge of German and am currently learning Spanish.
