LOCATION... Sussex within sight of the Southdowns.
SELF-DESCRIPTION... Member of the University of the Third Age - U3A. I was a nurse for the first adult decade. In the civil service for 10 years, where I learned Russian. I lived in Malaysia for 10 years under Mahathirs rule, bringing up my step children, their father died in 1990 not long after we retired to UK. The last significant decade I spent with someone I regarded the love of my life, and he died very suddenly two years ago. I am just now 'moving on'. He was a Guardian reader and I am a lifelong Telegraph reader, politics came up in conversation daily. He became increasingly disillusioned with this goverment, and very depressed. I am a painter and also a silversmither and also a passionate rose grower amongst other flowers - I love colour.
POLITICAL BELIEFS... I believe in the rule of law, but I am not very impressed with SOME lawyers. I think everybody should take responsibility for their own actions and not immediately blame other people. Like others on this website I believe in smaller more localised and perhaps more accountable government. These elephantine regional mechanisms have no incentive to care about anyone other than themselves, and who they are instructed to care about!
POLITICAL HEROES... Disraeli, Churchill, William Hague (whom I would like to meet!). And nowadays Tony Benn because although I do not agree with his political ideas much, he has integrity and it shines these days.
FAVOURITE BLOGS... Guido Fawkes - I spent part of the war evacuated to Coughton Court Castle, one of the places where the Gunpowder Plot was plotted, so it always signified perhaps more to me than to the average person!
FAVOURITE CH CONTRIBUTOR... William Norton, John Hustings and of course Annabel with her jaunty posts!
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