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This
description of me is spookily accurate, especially if compared to a
description of a
Libran!
If you want to do an analysis of your own name go to
Kalabrians.
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(The
highlighting is mine - the bits that I think are true!)
The name
of Philip gives you a very idealistic nature. Your
desire for peace
and harmony causes you to
withdraw from situations where there is
friction and acrimony. You are quite reserved and inclined to feel
sensitive
and self-conscious, even though you strive to appear poised and
confident. Being rather secretive in many ways, and not liking people
to pry into your affairs restrict opportunities for friendship; not until you
feel you can trust others do you open up to them. The desire to help others
and the generous side of your nature attract those who take advantage
of you. You lack the necessary aggressiveness for business success.
While you lack verbal expression and spontaneity under this name, you have a
natural literary ability and writing comes easily to you. You also have a deep
appreciation of nature and all the
finer things in life. Weaknesses
in the health arising from the use of this name affect the respiratory organs,
and the nervous system.
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A few
of My Favourite Things
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This is
not exactly "raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens", but the
idea is the same. There are a number of links for you to follow if you can be
bothered.
(Some
things are covered on the separate page of links)
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Food
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Fruit
- during the summer there are days when I eat nothing else (raspberries and
apricots are joint #1; then bananas, strawberries, nectarines, satsumas,
mango, melon... ok I admit it there is hardly a fruit I don't like);
Cheese
- especially French Brie
with tomato and basil (hmm yum!) and Gorgonzola (which doesn't have a good
web link - perhaps the smell put people off;
Potatoes
(baked; roast; boiled - you name it);
Bread;
Pasta;
Fish and Chips;
Ice-cream;
Nuts - particularly Cashew.
I am
also a non-meat eater - simply because I do not like meat.
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Drink
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Water
(honest - I love water);
Fruit
Juice;
Milk;
anything
cold (but non-alcoholic).
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Films
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Truly,
Madly, Deeply;
The
Italian Job;
the
whole (well almost all)
Carry
On series;
Starwars
series;
Indiana
Jones series (Harrison Ford);
Austin
Powers series (the humour is so 'Carry On');
almost
every musical (though I draw the line at the Sound of Music!);
anything
(almost) with Margaret
Rutherford in
it.
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Books
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To be
honest I am addicted to reading and have a wide ranging taste in books, as
the groaning shelves in my sitting room could tell you. However if I was
having to select for a desert island library, here are some I would definitely
have:
The
Hobbit;
Lord of
the Rings;
Medieval
Murder Mysteries
(lots);
Terry
Pratchett's Disc World series;
anything
by Dorothy
L. Sayers;
most Dickens;
a
recent development - Agatha
Christie;
E. F.
Benson's Mapp
and Lucia
series;
Road
Maps and Atlases (strange one but I love looking through them);
Dictionaries
(not much of a story - but the words!):
Biographies
Sherlock
Holmes stories.
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Music
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Almost
anything! I have a large collection of CDs (somewhere in the region of 600).
However, particular favourites are:
Almost
everything by Mozart and Scarlatti (playing with this page);
Albinoni's
Adagio in G Minor;
Handel's
Zadock the Priest;
Copeland's
Fanfare for the Common Man;
Queen's
Bohemian Rhapsody;
everything
by Savage
Garden;
almost
anything from the 1930s and 1940s;
everything
by Glenn
Miller.
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Collections |
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If I'm
honest, I collect collections! However here are a few details:
David
Winter Cottages (now discontinued);
Elephants
(wood; crystal; metal; stone; any material and almost any size);
Buddhas;
Guan
Yin
statuettes;
West
Highland Terrier
figures;
Mice
figures.
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Places |
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Garden
centres;
Warwickshire;
Paris;
the
sea;
the
Malvern Hills;
Plas
Newydd on Anglesey;
Castle
Howard in Yorkshire;
Le
Touquet in France;
Normandy
in France;
bed!
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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Modern
architecture;
red
cars;
the
paintings of Bruegel
the Younger;
the
horse paintings of Stubbs;
ties (though I haven't worn one since December 2001);
the
internet;
blue
objects in the garden (which you will know if you have already viewed the
garden pages);
yellow
flowers;
windy
days;
rain (if I am lying in bed listening to it);
storms (there is something primeval about thunder and lightning)
Autumn;
sunsets.
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-
Some
Things I Dislike
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People
who blow their cigarette smoke towards me;
Curry;
loud
music;
waste
of any sort;
the
Monarchy (I'm a definite republican);
football
(well if I'm honest, sport in general);
people
who drive badly (I'm not the world's best driver - but I'm safe);
Magpies
(murderous brutes!);
most
modern and contemporary art (particularly Damien Hirst);
barbeques;
I
could go on...but enough is enough!
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Well, I
think that is enough about me! Thanks for sticking with it this far.
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